Berrico FoodCompany bv

About Berrico FoodCompany bv

Berrico FoodCompany is a Dutch B2B importer, trader, and distributor of berries, seeds, nuts, and specialty processed fruits and vegetables. It serves packers, wholesalers, and the European food and drink industry with organic and conventional ingredients, positioning itself as a partner for pure, natural, and health-oriented products.

Founded in 2001, Berrico has grown into a globally active supplier with more than 20 years of experience and a product range spanning more than 30 categories. The company emphasizes quality control, transparency, and long-term relationships across the supply chain, describing its role as helping customers add flavour, colour, and health benefits to finished products.

Core Values

• Health: Berrico presents its ingredients as supporting a hearty lifestyle and helping customers create products with flavour, colour, and health benefits. The company’s origin story and portfolio both reflect a strong focus on natural, better-for-you foods.
• Quality: Quality control, food safety, and traceability are central themes throughout the company’s website. Berrico highlights certifications such as BRC-AB, IFS Broker, SKAL, and SGF as part of its quality system.
• Sustainability: The company stresses sustainable procurement, organic sourcing, and responsible supply-chain relationships. It aims to create added value for every member of the chain while reducing environmental impact.
• Social responsibility: Berrico emphasizes fair, long-term relationships, employee wellbeing, and ethical business conduct. Its CSR policy includes labour, human rights, and community responsibility commitments.
• Education and innovation: The company describes itself as continuously scanning the market for innovative items and maintaining an R&D capability for tailor-made projects. It also uses internal knowledge-sharing initiatives such as Berrico Academy.

Unique Aspects

• Strong cranberry heritage: Berrico says it was one of the pioneers in the organic cranberry market in Europe and is now firmly established as a major supplier of cultivated organic cranberries in the European market.
• Farm-to-fork traceability model: The company personally visits producers, audits suppliers, and maintains direct dialogue to safeguard quality and traceability from field to fork. This hands-on sourcing approach is a defining part of its positioning.
• Exclusive partner network: Berrico works with a carefully selected group of trusted producers and processors, often in long-term and sometimes exclusive partnerships for the European market. It supports partners with commercial, quality, logistics, regulatory, and market-development services.
• Berryceuticals joint venture: Berrico created Berryceuticals with Canadian partner Fruit d’Or to focus on nutraceutical fruit ingredients, especially cranberry and wild blueberry products. The venture highlights standardized natural ingredients for the nutraceutical industry.
• Plamino platform: Plamino is Berrico’s dedicated platform for plant-based protein and analogue concepts in Europe. It extends the company beyond fruit ingredients into the plant-based transition.
• Canadian sourcing strength: Berrico’s cranberry and wild blueberry portfolio is closely tied to Canadian sourcing, including its long-standing partnership with Fruit d’Or. This gives the company a clear origin-based specialization in these categories.