Import, storage & distribution of overseas fruits: 60 years of certified expertise put to use with a view to ensuring high quality and your satisfaction
Import
Specialising in the import of around key products sourced from 30 different countries (e.g. Peru, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Mali, Turkey, Egypt, Argentina, South Africa , Kenya, Israel, New Zealand etc.).
Storage
12 refrigerators (6 in Rungis and 6 in Plan d'Orgon) including 1 under controlled atmospheric conditions.
Many ripening rooms for avocados and mangoes.
Distribution
100% of the MINs (Marché d'Intérêt National = National Wholesale Food and Agricultural Market) and MIRs (Marché d'Intérêt Régional = Regional Wholesale Food and Agricultural Market).
« To ensure that purchasing organisations and wholesalers receive a regular supply of exotics fruits, and to offer new varieties of exotic flavour within the scope of a process of continual quality management and improvement. »
Georges Helfer, Founder of GEORGES HELFER
From production to marketing, and including the packaging of fresh exoctis fruits, for 60 years GEORGES HELFER has been committed to building a partnership with you that is based on firm and long-term trust.
A continual quality management and improvement process
2 warehouses, with high-performance equipment for the ripening, improvement and packaging of our selection of fresh, out-of-season fruits.
In the North: The 'MIN de Rungis' (Rungis National Wholesale Food and Agricultural Market)
6 refrigerators - with a capacity of 130 pallets.
6 ripening rooms - with a total capacity of 1500 pallets.
2 machines for labeling cardboard trays (0 plastic)
1 packaging machines for the production of net/girsac packaging, for example: 500g pack of limes / pack of 3 avocados / 1kg net of avocados.
2 thermosealing machines, enabling us to produce trays of avocados containing 2 ripe fruits (and in due course, trays of mangoes as well).
1 Sinclair machine (calibrator/labeller) enabling us on the size of the fruit on the one hand, and the ripeness on the other, while also offering a fruit labelling function as well.
In the South: Plan d'Orgon
6 refrigerators - with a capacity of 130 pallets.
6 ripening rooms - with a total capacity of 1500 pallets.
2 labeling machines for cardboard trays (0 plastic)
Several packaging machines for the production of net/girsac net bags - several calibrators -
1 film wrapping machine (for shrink-wrapped trays)
This is a story that is about people, and relationships of trust with the official producers in more than 30 countries.
Proactive contacts - dedicated, dynamic, passionate and…multi-lingual
