Fruit Attraction 2021

Julio Nestar Calvo - Country Reefer Manager for MSC in Spain with colleagues.

GinaFruit S.A. produces and exports bananas from Ecuador, export markets include Japan, Poland, Italy, Singapore, China, Chile, Turkey.

AGAP represents the interests of Peruvian agro-export producers, processors and marketers and promoting their development through increased competitiveness, the opening of markets and the improvement of the legal framework.

Grazyna Aniszkiewkz, Gregorz Karokzak and Rafal Zarzecki were on hand at the Citronex stand. the company is one of the main banana importers in Poland, every day, over 362,000 banana cartons are prepared for sale in the ripening rooms located in Poland and Romania.

The team of Farmers Home Europe in a brand new stand. This new company is the European marketing and distribution arm for Green SuperFood, a grower-exporter of premium and sustainable fresh fruit and Hass avocados in Colombia and Brazil.

Charif Christian Carvajal M Pesident of SHAFFE and also representative of ASOEX with Gil Kaufman from SHAFFE. During the fair SHAFFE organized a seminar called “How a sustainable produce sector could look like in 2030” in a hybrid conference format.

Eric Munoz and Ivonne Chica at Felix Instruments.

Fresh cut ready to eat celery from G's Fresh

Nagesh Shetty from Deccan Produce exporter of Indian grapes.

A happy team at North Bay Produce: Zeta Gimnez, Wojciech Dymecki, Philip Symons, Wilco Arts, Danielle Weatherby and Cas van Loon from the Greenery.

Rebeca Alonso and Hanne Lunge at the Landgard stand.

Ana Ouveira, Angela Ramos and Sofia Oomes at Frutas Legumes e Flores.

There was a lot of companies from Portugal present at the trade fair.

The Fruit Attraction robot was a popular companion for selfies.

The team from Delassus were kept busy in meetings on the stand.

The 'Lolly pop Collection' from Delassus.

Fuo Morera, Rob Round and Simon Matthews at Nature Seal AgriCoat, with coating for fruit.

Fraser Lawson and Nicolas Moebel from Frootix came along to the FreshPLaza stand.

Susana Taco, Paco Trujillo and Paco Sabio at Yuksel Seeds, a Turkish seed research and production company which has worked on the improvement of hybrid vegetable cultivars

Holger Brand was at the Fall Creek stand. The Fall Creek® Collection is a new and simple, value-added blueberry genetics platform that includes tech and transfer and horticultural support for professionalized commercial blueberry growers around the globe

Roberto Ricci and Jesus Hernandez Perona from Tomra. The company launched the new Cascade Singulator for cherry cluster separation at Fruit Attraction.

Cristos Mitrosilis at the Mitrosilis stand. Mitrosilis is an exporter of Greek citrus, grapes and kiwifruit.

Apple packing machine at the Calibra Fruta stand.

Kettle Produce Europe were present at the trade fair, Juan Manuel Ruis was at the stand.

Sergi Crbella, Joan Corbella from Agronelle with Gregorio Bellosta from Agrigan and Luis Duque and Dimitris Daios from Daios Plastics.

Jose Castro from 100% Titular with sweet potatoes from Portugal.

Joao Miguel Silva at Ecofrutas the company markets products from orchards located in the regions of Bombarral, Cadaval, Caldas da Rainha, Óbidos and Torres Vedras in Portugal with the “Rocha” pear taking pride of place as the main fruit. It also produces the Gala, Reineta, Fuji and Casanova apple varieties.

Sabastiao Lorena from NOGAM with Rafael Bianchini from Frunut.

Angeline Faniz and Ricardo Guedes from Franol a Portuguese family business with over 30 years of experience in banana ripening and marketing.

Nunu Almeida and Linda Kurjavceva at the Frupor stand. The company produces fresh vegetables in Portugal.

Bernardo Horgan and David Horgan at Beirabaga. Beirabaga jams and almonds made in a traditional way, with best-quality Portuguese fruits and using modern production techniques.

Mari Oritz and Diana Serna at Dontella Fruit the company exports tropical fruit from Costa Rica.

Stephanie Gaillet at Siim-Terrasol. Earlier this year the company launched 'the world’s first “Carbon Neutral” pineapple on the European market'

Galo Molina at Mar Plantis an exporter of organic produce from Ecuador.

Nohely Arteaga, Gewesis Borja and Jorgg Alejandru from EKO Plantations.

Maggie Valencia and Patrigio Catapano at Banaval. Supplier of bananas from Ecuador.

Lorena Touman and Calyetona Gimenez from Guayas.

Tatiana Rosales Nieto from Asopro Osmel with bananas from Ecuador.

Maria Pilar Jauregui from the Masojo Corp with avocados from Peru.

Cesar Cardenes Tapia from Van Card prompting ginger.

Hugo van Reigersberg Versluys, Guillermo Batra Basutra and Johnnatan Ayala Lombardi at Jalhuca.

Ariadna Mellado, Tania Ferraz and Daniel Gonzalez at As Global Fresh.

Mario Viddurre Fox and Alonso Salcedo del Poso from Anawi exporters of citrus and organic exotics from Peru.

Ignacio Iamas Galdon and Carlos Zevallos Delgadillo from Agzulasa. Cavendish Bananas, plantains, baby and red bananas from Ecuador.

A selection of exotic fruit from Frutas Comerciales -Colombia.

Aida Ben Achour at the Import Promotion Desk.

Carlos Madariag and Roberto Samano from Berries Paradise a Mexican company growing exporting blueberries, raspberries and blackberries from the states of Jalisco, Michoacán, Colima and Sinaloa.

Carlos Couturier - Citricola Couturier and Raul Millan - Vision Import Group.

The team at Aguacates Hahena with avocados Michoacán.

Maersk also had a busy stand at the trade fair.

As always a very colourful Pink Lady stand.

Lino Bran and Elizabeth Belhady came along to the FreshPlaza stand to say hello.

JBT have recently opened a new facility in Murcia: Marcos Dominguez, John Siddle, Simona Montagna, Francisco Peris and Antonio Camarsa were on the stand.

Banjamin Singh and Alberto la Brada from Food Freshly with Gianluca Giordano and Melinda Di Prisco from PND.

Dimitri Resnik from AKB with apples from Ukraine.

Hanne Pophuck and Nataly Sudarkina from Agri Patriot with garlic products from Ukraine.

Alex, Krill and Alex stood out with their bright shirts promoting Ukrainian Apples from Alma Fruit.

Velodymyr and Veronica at Ukrsadvinprom with apples and cherries from Ukraine.

There were a lot of Moroccan companies in the Morocco pavilion.

Salix has a wide portfolio of over 25 produce items, but focuses on apples, lemons, oranges, tangerines, pears and grapes. The company works with more than 80 loyal growers in 18 countries, and 400 customers in 57 countries. Ignacio Vidales was at the Salix stand.

Tiago Caseriro from Green September specialise in the export of fruit and nuts.

Christopher Palumbo from Glolden Berry Farms and Aida Ben Achour from Import Promotions Desk came along to the FreshPlaza stand.

John Gray and Gordon Porter from Angus Soft Fruit. This was the first time the company has taken a stand at Fruit Attraction, they are promotion the European side of the business.

Krzysztof Jasnosz and Lukasz Michalak from Agro Queen, Poland -the company will be starting the apple export in 2-3 weeks, the production and quality is up on last year.

Andrzej Pietka and colleague at the Konkret stand with apples from Poland.

Ewabis mainly produce apples, but they also grow a variety of vegetables. Piotr Porosa and Pawel Napiorkowski were at the stand.

Magdalena Wrotek- Figarska: apples and juice from Poland very nice packaging - The Taste of Beauty - Sady Grojeckie

A big selection of HPP juices from Poland - Karol Gorny from Pascal and Konrad Dziatak from Swigo

The Polish Berry Cooperative is comprised of three producing groups and export berries and juice to Europe. Agta Malkiewicz was at the stand.

The Fruit Group promoting apples from Poland.

Dawel Puncewicz and Aleksandra Kurcinska at the Appolonia stand.

Coliman is a producer of bananas and Avocados from Mexico, on the stand with Jorge Aguilar, Mariana Palma and Victor Aguilar.

Jaime Bustamante and Dafne Palomino from DRC, Canada came along to visit the FreshPlaza stand.

Flavia Trevisan and Luciano Figari from Kreab visited us t the Freshlaza stand.

Lorenzo Cerqui and Fermin Cabello from WECO.

Youssef Brouziyne, Business Develope, Tech Support and Audit Specialist.

Anne Williams from Cool Logistics came along to the FreshPlaza stand to say hello. The 2021 Cool Logistics conference will take place online later this month.

Timtheus van der Laar from Petracca an importer in Switzerland came along to visit FreshPlaza.

Bruno Astuto, Stephen Fink, Dave Sijogo, Keith Barnard and Ben Barnard at Mission.

Peter Skov Johasen at Green Peas. Fresh green peas from Demark to European markets.

Joqo Paulo, Luisa Quntino and Patricia Moreira at Tri Portugal. The company specialises in Rocha pear.

Pedro and Carlos Marques at Horta Pronto.

Ricardo Ocana, Tatiana Alonso, Richi Menoyo and Abdeccah Houri at Agro Atlas. Growers specialised in Green beans and Stringless beans, Agadir Morocco.

Rafael Lis and Jalal Bouzerda at Salad Time with tomatoes from Morocco.

Sonia Bentaja at Domaines Zniber an exporter of citrus and stone fruit from Morocco. Stone fruit is exported under the Zniber brand.

Asharaf M El-Seihi, Ahmed El-Seihi and Ahmed M Badawy from MAPC.

Fusion Food export a range of fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables from Peru - Patricia La Vera

Swisscrops export pomegranates and asparagus from Peru, Susana Zavaleta was at the stand.

Luis Carlos Quesada promoting the Golden Diamond and Sweet Diamond pineapples from Ambrosia Tropical.

Display of Autumn fruit and vegetables at Frutas Hortalizas Frescas

Amy Tranzillo and Nathalie Gocha from AgroFresh - the company provides a range of solutions to prevent food loss and waste.

Claire Blanchard and Cameron Mistal from Happy Veg came along by the FreshPlaza stand.

Darshan Patil and Tejaswini Kushare from Fresh Survey

Oscar Rietkerk from R3f came to get his copy of out Hortidaily business directory.