Sector with a platform company
The chain that takes food from the field to the table: farming, industrial processing and supply to retail and food service. It is led by Acico, and the sector grows on that platform.
The sector
Where the chain begins: growing, harvesting and long-standing agreements with farmers and cooperatives that secure quality raw materials, season after season.
Canning, freezing, cooking and packing: the industry that turns the harvest into a safe, shelf-stable product ready to reach any market.
Ready-to-eat meals and solutions, where consumption is growing and margin is defended through recipe, format and innovation.
Producing for retailers’ own brands and for other manufacturers. It requires capacity, up-to-date certification and a relationship of years with the buyer: three things that cannot be improvised.
Why here
Food is a basic need: it is bought in any cycle and reaches consumers through an increasingly concentrated retail sector that demands volume, food safety and reliability. Spain is one of Europe’s great larders, and much of its agri-food industry is made up of family companies with expertise, products and customers, many of them facing a generational handover or the need to grow.
That is the sector’s opportunity: adding companies from across the chain —from the field to processing and distribution— to a platform that already has industrial capacity, certification and relationships with the major buyers. Acico is that platform; the sector grows by building on it, with new ranges, new capacity and new markets.
The lead company
Acico makes preserved pulses and vegetables and ready meals, as a private-label producer and co-packer for Europe’s leading retail chains. It is one of the group’s two pillars and the anchor of the sector: its plant, its quality team and its commercial relationships with retailers are the starting point for the whole agri-food sector.
Acico’s products
Own products: cooked pulses, vegetables and combinations for major retailers.
Criteria
The traits that count in a company in the sector.
Spain is one of Europe’s larders. We invest in the companies that grow it, process it and bring it to the table.
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