Our services make us

Different

Our services make us

Different

ALTERNEA, tailor-made services to meet
even the most demanding specifications.

SOURCING

Alternea launched its own production with the creation of its subsidiary Alternea Farms in October 2021,
for various reasons:

• to set up closer relationships with our producers
• so that our technical teams can guide them, help them and accompany them
• to audit and evaluate them in order to maintain high performance levels
• to set up our own production for certain strategic products
• to ensure a secure, high-quality and continuous supply all year round thanks to diversified product origins
• to source responsible packaging, taking into account the entire packaging life cycle
• to source reliable transport, with partners who adhere to the Alternea philosophy

ALTERNEA, tailor-made services to meet
even the most demanding specifications.

SOURCING

Alternea launched its own production with the creation of its subsidiary Alternea Farms in October 2021,
for various reasons:

• to set up closer relationships with our producers
• so that our technical teams can guide them, help them and accompany them.
• to audit and evaluate them in order to maintain high performance levels .
• to set up our own production for certain strategic products.
• to ensure a secure, high-quality and continuous supply all year round thanks to diversified product origins
• to source responsible packaging, taking into account the entire packaging life cycle
• to source reliable transport, with partners who adhere to the Alternea philosophy

Alternea Farms also guarantees and ensures:

A production that protects soil and water resources

A production with limited greenhouse gas emissions

A production that respects people and values producers’ know-how

A production controlled by certification authorities

A complementary production to local production

These strategic productions are:

130Ha

of green and red sucrine,
iceberg and romaine lettuce varieties

36Ha

of Primoris
strawberries

12Ha

of red and green
chilli peppers

Our sourcing pole controls 100% of the production (producers, seed suppliers, materials, transport) and enables us to work in synergy with our producers for a lasting collaboration.
All our producers are selected on the basis of very demanding criteria but also because they share a sustainable vision of food production based on the Alternea philosophy. Our teams set up plantations with our producers, with quality controllers and agronomists in all the different production areas.

These strategic productions are:

130Ha

of green and red sucrine,
iceberg and romaine lettuce varieties

36Ha

of Primoris
strawberries

12Ha

of red and green
chilli peppers

Juan Pablo RIO MOSO

Director Alternea Farms Sourcing Manager

Selecting, federating and getting the best producers to adhere to specifications. ALTERNEA prepares their future as well as possible and guarantees our customers product and environmental quality. This is the best service we can offer to our customers.

Alternea has established an unprecedented partnership with Teraneo, our local producer in Roussillon, to develop and market its produce. Teraneo, the producers of historic cooperative of the PO, groups together about a hundred fruit and vegetable producers throughout the Pyrénées-Orientales department.
By pooling the know-how of Teraneo's producers and Alternea’s expertise, we develop sustainable agricultural production in the department, and market produce so that our local French producers are paid fairly. We sincerely wish to sustain this partnership in time alongside the other products on offer to our customers.

QUALITY

Our Quality and System department defines and implements our quality policy. It supervises the application of standards and the conformity of the company's products or services to internal and external requirements at all levels of the company.

As a result of these requirements for high standards, traceability and continuous improvement that we defined at the beginning, we have become the privileged partner of professionals in the fruit and vegetable industry.
Whether our fruit and vegetables are destined for fresh, processed or frozen consumption, they follow a whole series of controls from the production field onwards in order to ensure the permanent quality of our products.

Our quality know-how is guaranteed by our various certifications and the approval of our customers.

Séverine CAIL

Quality and Systems Manager

I establish positive and trusting relationships with all the actors of the company. My team carries out nearly 200,000 quality tests per year to guarantee strict adherence to specifications, and works alongside our partner producers to follow progress plans that lead to excellence. I extend my gratitude to all my team for their good work - the consequence of the state of mind generated throughout the company.

CERTIFICATIONS

LOGISTICS

A product is nothing without service and vice versa. What makes us different and unique is the combination of our product offer with a service offer.

ALTERNEA has inherited LACOUR's clear and recognised know-how and has improved it by creating a unique service HUB in its field of activity in February 2021. This HUB service and its refrigerated platform called HUB 1 built outside the Grand Saint Charles, comprises 1100 m² of offices and refectories, and can handle up to 120,000 tons of produce.

The HUB’s new solutions and technological innovations result in enhanced product quality and guarantee the freshest products possible in keeping with the highest environmental standards. It is a huge step forward, modernizing our business, while reinforcing our commitment to sustainable development.

We are conscious of the environmental challenges of tomorrow, and the characteristics of this new eco-designed refrigeration platform meet our criteria for reducing our environmental impact

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a latest generation refrigeration system with a refrigerant with a very low impact on the greenhouse effect as well as a plant-based heat transfer fluid .