From Türkiye to European shelves: how our food trade works
Supply agreements with leading Turkish producers, branded and private label, and a team that handles sourcing, quality follow-up, logistics and documentation. The food side of the group's trade operation, plainly.
Turkish food has a natural market in Europe: pulses, nuts and dried fruit, tomato paste and canned goods, olives and olive oil, tahini, halva and molasses, Turkish coffee, fresh fruit and vegetables, processed food. The hard part is rarely the product. It is the chain between a producer in Türkiye and a distributor or retailer in Europe: who guarantees supply, who follows quality, who handles the documents, and who answers when something goes wrong.
How the group approaches it
The trade operation is built on three capabilities rather than a catalogue:
- A business development network of producer, buyer and distributor relationships in Türkiye and in target markets.
- Supply chain management: sourcing, quality follow-up, logistics and documentation handled by one team.
- Export / import operations capability on both sides of the transaction.
On that base, the food line works with supply agreements with leading Turkish producers and supports both branded and private label products for distributor structures in Europe.
What we ask a new buyer
Three things: the category, the volume, and the destination market. With those, the team can say what is realistic, with which producers, and in what packaging and labelling. Private label is possible where the producer relationship allows it.
Beyond food
The same operation covers industrial commodities and energy (sulphur, petroleum and energy products, EPS and industrial raw materials, chemicals) and project-based international sourcing and intermediation, including energy investments and asset transactions. Those are different desks with the same working principle: a network first, then the transaction.
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