Products
Fresh produce and the food line.
Fresh · Orcha
It starts in the field.
Orcha is Grove’s own fresh produce brand, grown and sold in the Egyptian market. It is the part of the business that keeps us in the field rather than only at the port.
Supply comes from two sources. We farm ourselves, and we contract with small and medium growers under Grove agronomic and quality protocols, with defined varieties, input standards, harvest windows and grading criteria. That structure gives us volume without losing control of quality, and it gives the farms we work with a stable, planned offtake rather than a spot sale.
What we supply
Crop book
Grown under Grove protocols
Grapes
Export May to July. Local through October.
Grown under Grove agronomic and quality protocols, with defined varieties, input standards, harvest windows and grading criteria.
Our grown under protocol volume expands each season, and grapes is where it starts.
Sourced and supplied
Produce we source from vetted Egyptian growers and handle to the same grading and documentation standard.
- Pomegranate
- Dates including Medjool
- Oranges and mandarin
- Mango
- Guava
- Figs
- Apricot and peach
- Pears
- Bananas
When it ships
Season calendar
Each crop against the months it ships.
- Mango, August to OctoberEgypt’s mango peak falls after India and Pakistan finish and before Brazil and Peru ramp up, which is the thinnest window of global competition in the year.
- Oranges, December to AugustNavel running into Valencia gives a buyer nine months of continuous orange supply from a single origin.
| Crop | Months, January to December | Window |
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| GrapesGrown under Grove protocols | Export May to July. Local through October. | |
| Pomegranate | September to December. Early fruit from August, storage into January. | |
| DatesIncluding Medjool | Harvest from August. Medjool from mid-September. Dry dates year-round from storage. | |
| Oranges and mandarin | November to May. Navel December to April, Valencia March to August. | |
| Mango | June to November, peaking August to October. | |
| Guava | August to February. | |
| Figs | Fresh June to October, peak July to September. Dried year-round. | |
| Apricot and peach | Apricot April to June, peach May to July. | |
| Pears | Year-round, local Modern Trade. | |
| Bananas | Year-round, local Modern Trade. |
FMCG · The food line
Four categories, one discipline.
Jam
Fruit preserves across standard retail jars, catering pails and portion packs. Sweetness and fruit load set by the market, not by a single house recipe.
Tomato Paste
Egypt’s strongest processed food position. Single and double concentrate, in retail sachets and tins through to catering formats.
Tomato Sauce
Cooking sauces and bases formulated to regional taste. Heat, acidity and body adjusted per destination rather than exported unchanged.
Canned Foods
Vegetables, legumes and prepared lines in standard international can sizes, retail and catering.
Retail and catering formats. Available under the Grove brand, or under yours.
Private label
Your brand, our discipline.
A large share of our work is produced under our customers’ own labels. The method does not change. The buyer defines the product, we build to that definition, and the approved sample becomes the standard every subsequent batch is measured against.
Artwork, language, nutritional panel, claims and pack format follow the destination market and its regulations.
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Buyer owned brand
You hold the brand. We hold the specification, the quality control and the documentation.
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Label origination
Artwork and regulatory panels prepared for the destination, or supplied by you and produced to file.
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Agreed before trial
Format, minimum order quantity, lead time and terms settled before the first trial run.