The Slow Food organization has for today in Hamburg the morning an interesting event planned. A guided tour of the wholesale market. Clock went off at 7, 25 participants gathered in front of goal to learn to West, where their fruit and vegetables come from. The marketing manager of the wholesale market (national organization) took the lead.
The Hamburg Wholesale Market is one of the top 10 worldwide. Here, fruit, vegetables and flowers are traded. Covering an area of 40,000 square meters offer for sale more than a hundred distributors, producers and importers of their goods. The Hamburg Wholesale Market should not call the greatest German because the area is subject to a few percent of the area of Munich. As in Hamburg but excluding fruit and vegetables are traded, while handled in Munich, meat and fish, the Hamburger call it the "most important" big market in Germany.
The hall, which looks from the outside as three buildings was built 1958-62 and is now a listed building. Therefore, the Monument Office participated in the renovation, which will cost 30 million euros. Recent anecdote: the renovation work has been delayed because the country's establishment and Monuments Office could not agree on the interior color. It was, and different shades of gray.
As we walked through the hall, was the peak period over. The wholesale market is open from 2 bis 9 clock clock. At 7 clock, most retailers and restaurateurs already completed their shopping.
About 50% of consumed in Hamburg fruit and vegetable products is being implemented at Hamburg Wholesale Market and the trend is decreasing. The proportion of direct purchasers, such as the discount increases from year to year.
The producer group has its own space in the Hamburg Wholesale Market, operating out in the summer months, farmers from the region of their own products of interest to Slow Food activists. However, it comes as a simple consumer normally not on the wholesale markets, any business license is not enough even it has something to do with food or flowers have.
