We thank all our sponsors of the 4th Green Med Forum in Tunis!

COOP ITALIA   |   CEPEX   |   FIPA Tunisia

Other minor sponsors:

GiFruits  |  Groupement des Legumes GiL    

Packtec-Tunisian Olive Oil   |  ONH  

TUNISIANA   |  ENFIDHA

Office des terres domaniales  

TUNISAIR Transportateur Officel

Green Med Forum 2010 in Rome

The Silver Sponsor of the Gala Dinner & Green Med Awards was

international group leader in manufacturing systems and plants for the processing of all types of fresh fruit and vegetables (www.unitec-group.com). Unitec bases its success on the continues research, the development of new products and high technological systems. There is no phase of the manufacturing process in which Unitec not has winning technologies: depalletizing, emptying, feeding, treatments, grading, sorting quality, packing, palletizing and traceability. Unitec’s team is composed of professionals able to meet the challenges of growth and globalization, has the continuous will to discover new ways to improve the competitiveness of its customers.

Session 3  "Large-scale retail distribution in the Mediterranean"  was organized in cooperation with

The largest retail chain in Italy (www.e-coop.it), with a turnover of 12,8 Bln Euros, and a 17.8% market share. The Coop system is based on 6,7 million consumer members. Its multi-format structure includes 87 hypermarkets and over 1390 supermarkets, convenience and discount stores with other 60 new openings planned before 2011.

Coop Italia is the Marketing and Buying central of Consumer Cooperatives: it is responsible for negotiating with Industry and producers, development and production of Private Label, quality and safety policies and marketing strategy.

The ‘Prodotto Coop' (Coop Private Label) is designed according to Coop’s values and mission, to provide consumers with safe, good value, tasty and ethical products.
Coop Italia was the first Italian and European company to be granted SA8000 (Social Accountability) certification, which guarantees compliance with an ethical standard for the development and production of PL products. All PL suppliers have joined this ethical project; they were also asked to involve their sub-suppliers of raw materials in the initiative.

Coop Italia is the owner, together with the Scandinavian Coops and Coop Eroski, of  Intercoop Far East, based in Hong Kong, and it has developed business with China for over 25 years, for the import of non food products. The import value in 2008 is equal to over 75 Mln Euros.  

Other sponsors

BMTI (www.bmti.it) is a Chambers of Commerce consortium managing the regulated market for agricultural, food, and fish products. BMTI's on-line negotiating platform provides a remote-access virtual daily exchange for agricultural products.
On-line deals are controlled by the National Deputation, a watchdog and procedures agency.
BMTI also manages the Prices Area, the only nationwide Chambers of Commerce prices archive.