Summary:
The Martinican company is an online greengrocer that dedicates to delivering rare organic fruits and vegetables to consumers. The owners want to develop new agro-processed products to offer healthy breakfast options, with exotic flavours. In this process, the company seeks to partner with a dried fruits manufacturer with an expertise in tropical fruits for a supplying agreement.
Description:
Created in 2019, this young company specializes in marketing and distributing organic fruits and vegetables from Martinique online. The company focuses on offering rare produce that are not easily found in supermarkets (ex: breadfruit, sapodilla, yams, cachiman, etc.).
Customers being faced with an increasingly growing concern about the presence of pesticides in food, the company commits to offering traceability for all the produce sold on its website.
In this mission, the owners, a family of four, have developed strong partnerships with local farmers. Today, just about 2 years after starting the business, the company has grown by over 400%.
The main goal of the owners being to offer healthy options to their clients, they are in the process of starting a tropical-flavoured healthy breakfast range of products that will be distributed internationally. The range will include products like powerballs, granola, muesli, cereal bars amongst others.
To achieve this project, they are seeking a reliable partner to provide them with organic tropical dried fruits such as:
- Guava
- Mango
- Pomegranate
- Cantaloupe (Melon)
- Pineapple
- Papaya
- Passion Fruit
The suitable partner should be able to offer consistent quantities of products throughout the year and provide organic certification documents.
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Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
The company is interested in partnering with a producer/ manufacturer of tropical organic dried guava,mango, papaya, passion fruit, pineapple,Cantaloupe (Melon),Pomegranate (non-exhaustive list).
A wholesaler that has access to organic tropical dried fruits could also be considered.
The partner is expected to supply the company, located in Martinique, with the ordered quantities.
It would be appreciated if the partner could deliver directly at the Fort-de-France port.
There will be a sampling phase before order.
Technical Specification or Expertise Sought:
The partner should master drying processes that better preserve the natural taste of products. The products must have an organic certification recognized by EU certification bodies (Ecocert, USDA organic etc - with Euro Leaf,)
Ideally the products should not contain added sugar, preservatives.
The Vegan mention is appreciated but not mandatory.
No dried fruits puree will be considered
Stage of Development:
Concept stage
Comments Regarding Stage of Development:
The company seeks a partner that would be a keystone to the development of this project. At this point, orders will mainly be sample quantities as the company wants to identify producers that meet their needs.
External code:
BRFR20210222001