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The reach, breadth and quality of Dole plc’s international infrastructure sets us apart. Local at heart, global by nature our operations and vertically integrated supply chain extends right across individual markets and throughout Europe and the America’s. Our on the ground presence in the world’s primary growing regions and key markets is unrivalled. Throughout this integrated network our individual business units work together to deliver the best of both world’s- bespoke services to local businesses, exceptional produce from across the world and close to home and the collective strengths and resources of our group. It is a compelling combination. Profiles of key EMEA businesses can be found below.
Dole Ireland is Ireland’s premier fresh produce provider. Selling fruits and vegetables since the 1850’s, it operates out of 13 locations across the island. Growing, sourcing, importing, packaging, marketing and distributing over 300 lines of fresh produce, it markets a broad range of products including the finest local Irish berries, apples, vegetables, tomatoes and salads and the cream of the global crop. With specialist units dedicated to each of the retail, wholesale and foodservice sectors, Dole Ireland is a complete fresh produce solution provider – offering a comprehensive menu of services to our customers ranging from simple service provision to complete category management.
Working in hand in glove with the very best local independent producers, Dole Ireland provides technical, financial, logistical and promotional support, investing in their farms, facilities and their businesses and ensuring that local fresh fruits and vegetables takes pride of place in our produce portfolio. Committed to the promotion of best practices in all that they do, Dole Ireland is a 2022 Origin Green Gold member - an award recognising “exceptional annual performance on their sustainability targets in areas such as raw material sourcing, water and energy efficiency, waste reduction, packaging and social sustainability” based on the assessment of Bord Bia’s (the Irish Food Board) nominated independent verification authority.
Argofruta is a grower and exporter of exotics and tropical products from Brazil. Known for the quality of its products and efficiency in fulfilling their business commitments, Argofruta attends the various certifications and international protocols, such as Global Gap ,Grasp, HAACP, Tesco, Fairtrade, BSCI, Sedex, SMETA, etc.
We work to meet the consumption needs of our customers with maximum flexibility and dynamism, always based on commitment, loyalty, and efficiency. Thus, we aim to be a reference for our customers as the best option for the supply of the products that we offer.
Argofruta's aim to provide fruit through trusted relationships, positively impacting people's lives. Our purpose is promote healthy eating with sustainability and well-being.
Dole Europe BV, a fresh concept in European fresh produce retail provision, was formally launched on January 1st 2022. Headquartered in the Netherlands, and working in tandem with tropical fruit specialist Dole Europe Gmbh in Hamburg, Dole Europe BV acts as the central focal point for coordinating Dole’s non-tropical fruit retail operations and specifically account and category management across continental Europe.
Dole Europe B.V. is the culimination of an intensive 18 month project dedicated to bringing together the relative strengths of our former Total Produce businesses, most notably European infrastructure and local market expertise, alongside Dole’s global production and logistical resources and reach. Focusing exclusively on anticipating and meeting evolving retailer requirements, the division is dedicated to extracting costs and adding value across the supply chain while delivering a demonstrably superior service to customers across the continent.
The consolidation of continental operations under Dole Europe BV offers customers seamless access to our global operations via a simplified organisational structure- a compelling combination. By delivering bespoke, streamlined routes to market from Dole’s global production together with best-in-class category management, value adding NPD and innovation, Dole Europe BV serves to differentiate not only Dole produce, but also the service that we provide while driving our business and that our customers forward.
Founded in 2010, Dole Exotics is a leading European specialist in the sourcing, ripening, packing distribution and marketing of premium quality avocados and mangoes. Delivering fruit to retailers, food service operators and wholesalers throughout Europe – all year round, Dole Exotics sources directly from a network of the most accomplished growers across twenty countries.
Growers are required to meet the most stringent environmental, labour, and production requirements, ensuring compliance with best practices, EU regulations, sustainability requirements, and additional BRC Food and IFS Food requirements.
In its central distribution hub in Bleiswijk, the Netherlands, Dole Exotics provides an in-house ripening service ensuring maximum control and the capacity to meet the unique requirements of individual customers and that produce reaches the consumer in pristine condition. Working in partnership with growers and retailers, innovation lies at the heart of all that Dole Exotics does- whether it is introducing more sustainable production methods, developing new and sustainable forms of packaging or devising creative promotional campaigns to educate and inspire consumers across the continent. In 2021, Dole Organics launched its new DOLE BE Exotic! range of loose and prepacked Avocados and Mangoes across Europe.
Founded in 2003, Dole France, formerly Indigo Fruit is a French Company which became part of the Total Produce group in 2011. The company specializes in procurement, sales and category management of off-season fruit for the French market. The creation of Dole France in January 2023 was an important step in the execution of Dole EMEA’s strategy to integrate European operations and leverage the scale of the organisation for the benefit of local European customers. Going forward, Dole France will play a critical role in local relationship management and the importation, distribution and marketing of group grown and branded produce across France.
Our Nordic group of companies operates from Helsingborg, Sweden, and Koge, Denmark, with warehouses and JV's in multiple locations throughout the two countries. We grow, source, ship, process, package, market, sell, and optimize the logistics of fruit, vegetables, and berries from all across the globe.
Dole Nordic is customer and consumer centric. We aim to inspire and influence people to eat more fresh produce, regardless of where they meet our products, through our retail, wholesale, foodservice or industry customers.
With the large contact areas and the broad expertise that comes with it, we ultimately want to create a sustainable business, built on climate awareness, social responsibility, and financial profitability. Our focus is always on having the best offer of fruit, vegetables, and berries regardless of preferences, occasion, or size of budget. Together with our growers, partners, and customers we strive to contribute to a greener and healthier world.
Our main brand is DOLE, the everyday premium, farm-fresh foods brand that enhances your life with delicious fruits and vegetables for healthy meals by constantly innovating and bringing them from around the world to your table at the peak of quality, freshness and taste. But we also offer alternative, local brands, such as Njut av Sverige, alongside being a supplier for our customers private labels.
Dole South Africa has grown, within a little over 20 years, to become a formidable presence in South Africa’s fiercely competitive fresh produce landscape. From modest local beginnings in 1998 as the country embarked on a new era of democracy – now integrated more fully into the global community – today, Dole is the preferred exporter and producer of grapes, citrus, stone fruit, blueberries and avocados. The backing of our global expertise and practice allows us to offer a fully integrated and sustainable supply chain that extends across the globe to service our customers’ needs. Our philosophy is to be a business partner to our grower base, while at the same time expanding our producer status to remain the exporter of choice.
Dole UK is Britains’s premier fresh produce provider. Selling fruits and vegetables since the 1850’s, it operates out of over 30 locations. Growing, sourcing, importing, packaging, marketing and distributing over 300 lines of fresh produce, it markets a broad range of products including the finest local British berries, apples, vegetables, tomatoes and salads alongside the cream of the global crop. With specialist units dedicated to each of the retail, wholesale and foodservice sectors, Dole UK is a complete fresh produce solution provider – offering a comprehensive menu of services to our customers ranging from simple service provision to complete category management.
Working in hand in glove with the very best local independent producers, Dole UK provides technical, financial, logistical and promotional support, investing in their farms, facilities and their businesses and ensuring that local fresh fruits and vegetables takes pride of place in our produce portfolio. A commitment sustainability lies at the heart of everything that Dole UK does. In 2023, Dole UK commissioned its first electric distribution vans, this initiative following the conversion of Dole UK facilities to renewable energy across 20221/22.
Eurobana was founded in 1993 and its activities have grown to encompass the entire value chain of the sector from production, import, marketing, distribution or export, through packaging or fresh-cut production. Its special business model is based on constructive engagement and growth with partners and customers, as well the pursuit of logistical efficiencies. By virtue of its 17 locations across the Iberian Peninsula and more than 1,000 employees, Eurobanan holds the leadership in its sector, not only in numbers, but also in pioneering measures in the field of technology and sustainability. It markets more than 15 proprietary brands and is a distributor of the most important third-party brands. Combined, this has positioned Eurobanan as the market leader in the fresh produce sector across Spain and Portugal.
Everfresh is the market leading fresh produce company in Sweden, offering our products to retailers, wholesalers and foodservice customers all over the country. Through efficiency and by always being relevant in our offer, we create a long-term economically, socially and environmentally sustainable business that contributes to a healthier and greener world.
We give our customers and partners the opportunity to increase their competitiveness and create a long-term sustainable business by having the best offer of fruit, vegetables and berries for all tastes, situations, and budgets.
Frankort & Koning is an international organisation that trades in fruit and vegetables but which prefers to describe itself as a problem-solver: a matchmaker who links customers and suppliers. That is the ambition it shares with stakeholders. It is what its excels in and where it makes all the difference. For Frankort & Koning, success is something that shared with the growers, suppliers, customers and, of course, our its own people. It actively contributes to helping customers and suppliers achieve their goals and be successful so that all parties can get the best results together. Naturally, always the basis for this lies with the ambition of supplying the highest quality produce as fresh as possible to customers. Greenhouse or field-grown produce or imported fruit and vegetables- for F&K, the most important aspect is quality.
What really distinguishes Frankort & Koning, however, is that all the different components of the company operates with the same level of commitment and from the perspective of a shared team mentality. F&K brings to market both opportunity and expertise, advising on the best way to transport, pack or market produce and facilitating and empowering customers by sharing knowledge of aspects including labelling, packaging and palletising while reading the market, sensing and sharing opportunities and offering guidance regarding the best time to market which category of produce.
The Hortim Group incorporates 5 companies and 2 brands. Together we provide a unique background of services in the area of fruit and vegetables. Its mission is to offer our clients a complete portfolio of products and services, provide such services so that all refrigerated food deliveries arrive at your destination in uncompromising quality, properly packed, in the required quantity and above all on time.
Hortim itself is a trading and logistics-service company with a strong transport and technology background. It provides services for international chains and foreign and domestic fruit and vegetable producers. It also provides cross docking, city logistics, service providing and ripening banana services. Hortim provides large storage capacity , specialising in refrigerated vegetables, fruits and related foods. Hortim SK provides the same services in a modern, newly build warehouse in Slovakia.
The Hortim Group includes Cargo Hortim a subsidiary for domestic and international transport while subsidiary Abasto specializes in servicing the HORECA segment. Last but not least, Farma Božice is also an important part of the Hortim Group, producing vegetables on a farm nearby the Hortim Group HQ in Brno, Czech Republic.
OTC Organics B.V., founded in 2001, has become the leader in the European distribution of organic fruit and vegetables. In addition to their headquarters in Dronten (the Netherlands) they also have a state-of-the-art warehouse in Poeldijk (the Netherlands). Since 2021 OTC Organics is part of the DOLE plc. Group.
OTC Organics grows and supplies top-quality, sustainable organic fruit and vegetables, with a clear conscience and in close and committed co-operation with their professional organic growers to provide customers with fresh organic fruits and vegetables.
Because global agricultural resources are not growing, the world population is increasing, and in addition to the constantly growing requirements for traceability and product safety by the European food retail trade, OTC Organics decided to start the project “From Trading to Farming” years ago. This resulted in having their own production, fixed contracts with producers and sustainable partnerships with exporters. Today OTC Organics has a production network in South Africa, South America, the Caribbean and the Netherlands. This own network in production enables them to control the entire supply chain from planting to the end customer according to the specifications of the organic requirements of their customers in the most sustainable way. “Organic experts with a conscience!”