The new infrastructure has 2 buildings, one for reception and Spanish-origin goods, along with imports, with 5 cold storage rooms and four loading bays. The second building is devoted to export and service to large distribution and it has four loading bays and cold storage rooms. Both buildings are connected and offer optimised, efficient logistics.
Designed with the most demanding sustainability parameters, each warehouse has 100 KW of photovoltaic installations. The new infrastructure’s total cold capacity reaches around 750 tonnes.
The offices are located in the upper part of the building. With an avant-garde, yet functional design, they include all the facilities and conveniences needed by the workers; these include a roomy dining room, as well as different meeting rooms and offices.
A training room stands out, to be used for the professionalisation and qualification of the company’s workers, following quality criteria.
The official opening of the building took place on the 24th of February. The General Manager of Mercabarna, Jordi Valls, attended the event, along with friends, family members, suppliers and other business people from the wholesale market. Amongst these was a representation from the cooperative Fruits de Ponent, a traditional stone fruit shipper, led by its Manager, Josep Presseguer.
The infrastructure, as indicated by the General Manager, Antonio Capdevila, in his opening speech, “represents a lifetime’s work, as well as the future for the new generations of the family that have joined the company. It is a fact that we like what we do and that the reality of this project also owes everything to the entire human team that works in the company,” the executive affirmed.
The new building provides greater functionality and logistical ease in all the processes and it has been designed as a result of the expansion strategy experienced in recent years and which not only includes sales within Spain but also international marketing.
The latter is precisely where the greatest consolidation of growth is being seen, not only in countries where they have always marketed produce (France and Italy), but also in Germany, the Czech Republic or Denmark.
The Catalan company has ‘brandism’ in its DNA, and in addition to Ronda Fruits, Ronda Verde and Ronda Fruits Bio, the latest flagship incorporated to its portfolio is the brand Bubó, specialising in mangos and avocados.
