My aim is to bring the Italian chestnuts b2b trade to a new stage, where quality, volumes and programmes are managed at a higher level of skill and guarantee.

1. Italian Chestnuts
My aim is to bring the Italian
chestnuts b2b trade to a
new stage, where quality,
volumes and programmes
are managed at a higher
level of skill and guarantee

2. 2012: a tough season for Italian
chestnuts
• The Italian chestnut industry faced two
major challenges during the 2012 season:
the summer drought and the gall wasp.
• Many traditional packers had to drastically
reduce their volumes, others had to close
down their operation due to a lack of
volumes.

3. A new wave
• We can offer consistent supply from major
Italian chestnuts specialists, bringing a
new wave of professionalism into the
business. The current customer base
includes all main Italian and UK
supermarkets.
• Volumes of fresh chesnuts and marrons
have steadily increased in the last years to
14,000 tons in 2012.

4. Keys to growth
The growth is based on simple milestones:
• a constructive approach to develop customer loyalty based on
shared strategies about quality, availability and prices;
• own chestnuts and marrons farms;
• a national network of growers centered around storage and
collection facilities in all main Italian growing areas;
• one-site centralized packaging operations in the North of Italy;
• long term storage to cover the spring business (January to March);
• only water treatment on conventional chestnuts, no chemicals used;
• NOP certified organic crops;
• an integrated production flow which includes semi-finished products
(deep frozen peeled chestnuts and marrons) and finished products
(prepacked fresh and dry chestnuts, glaze marrons);
• partnerships with growers and packers in the main European
growing areas.

5. We are open to new trading
partners
We are open to new trading partners for fresh
chestnuts who:
• can develop a relationship based on long-term
mutual development;
• need a strong supply partner to back up their
quality and volume commitments for
supermarket programmes;
• require a guaranteed flow of produce from the
beginning of October onward;
• are looking to a modern and professional partner
for Italian chestnuts.

6. Contacts
Thomas Drahorad
(Business development)
English, italiano, español, francais, Deutsch
Linkedin profile thomas@ncx.it
Tel. +39-059-7863815 skype thodra
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