BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Vinogradi Nuic ZILAVKA, Vinogradi Nuic BLATINA

ANDJELIC Ltd. is based in Trebinje, in the south-east of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Founded in 1996, the company has grown steadily over the years expanding its range of products. Since its foundation, ANDJELIC Ltd. Has expanded its activities, increasing its capacity and expanding the range of its products. These can be found from the Mediterranean region of the Adriatic sea in the South to the mountainous region in Central Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through the years, the company has created a close relationship with its collectors, and established organic standards and criteria for the collectors who work according to these norms. ANDJELIC Ltd. Is the leading developer and producer of certified organic essential oil and supplier of herbs, medical herbs, dried fruits and spices grown in the wild in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The quality of essential oils is obtained by the process of steam distillation in our modern stainless steel distillery. ANDJELIC Ltd. insists on delivering only high quality products to our customers, who use these products in pharmacy, aromatherapy, cosmetics, perfumes, food industry etc. In order to maintain the high quality of our products, we use organic raw materials know-how based on knowledge, experience and technical resources, an ongoing control of all parameters during the process of distillation, and also a strict control of finished product by biochemical analysis in the best laboratories. Our products are certified by KRAV (Sweden), and

"SMRCAK" Company is situated in a small town of Zvornik, on the left bank of the river Drina, in the north-east of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The company was fouded in 1992, transformed from the collecting station founded in 1982, which confirms that our tradition lasts more than 20 years. The main activities of our company are collection, processing and trade of mushrooms, medicinal herbs, forest fruits, fruit and vegetables. We belong to the group of significant companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina dealing with the same kind of activities. The average annual capacity of our company is about 100 tones of fresh mushroom, 15 tones of dried mushroom, 30 tones of frozen and 20 tones in brine. We have four kinds of mushrooms: Boletus edulis, which is the most represented, Cantharellus cibarius, Morchela and Craterellus cornucopioides. Our company also deals with 15 tones of different medicinal herbs (dried) and about 50 tones of other forest fruits, fruits and vegetables. We repurchase, process and export all these quantities, with 6 employees and 40 field workers (90% of them are women). All these things could not be done without good work organization in the field where we have about 20 collecting places and more than 1000 collectors with whom we had signed cooperation contracts. We have our own capacities for processing and transport of goods (dry-kiln, refrigeration plant, chopping machines, grinding, packaging, boiler for cooking), as well as a very skilled workers what confirms a longtime quality of our products. // Activities / Products: Fresh food (527) Fruit, vegetables, potatoes, mushrooms (247) Fruit, vegetables, herbs (119) // Boletus edulis, Cantharellus cibarius, Morchella, Craterellus cornucopioides

white dry wine, red dry wine, Brandy

food and beverage importer, distributor / Main Products: Drinks, Fruits

The company Heko - Bugojno has 110 hectares of fruits and vegetables nursery where we grow different kind of seedlings of fruits and vegetables. In the same time, it produces its own fruits and vegetables, although, the company purchases additional quantities of fruits and vegetables from small producers and collectors in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The produced or collected products are processed into dried or frozen fruits and vegetables. The company has its own facilities for storage, cooling and drying of goods. The capacity of the cooling chamber is 1700 tons while the drying capacity of this company is 10 tones. Also, Heko has certificates, which allows them to exports their products at the international market. Those certificates are: ISO 9001:2008, HACCP and KRAV for organic products. Products of Heko have already found the place in the international market. More then 80% of its production is sold in the foreign markets, while additional 20% has been placed in domestic market. The main export markets of the company are markets of Denmark, Germany, Austria and Slovenia. With constant look at the fields and farmers we support and help them to grow quality fruits in compliance with the highest standards for quality. This allows us to guarantee highest quality and safety of our products. For wild fruits picked on this territory, we are certified with Swedish KRAV for collection of blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, bilberries, loganberries, rosehips, juniper, etc. We carefully choose our raw material from certified and controlled growing areas and farmers. Observing the organic standards from the field through the processing till storage we control the whole process. Regular pesticides, heavy metals, microbiology and radioactivity screening are applied for the fresh and processed product. Thus we guarantee our fruits are authentic organic. The equipment used for processing and freezing is from well-established producers. Processing takes place quickly after harvesting. We can pit, cut, calibrate and sort any soft fruit. Metal detecting additionally ensures safety on final product. We run management system with 100% full traceability back to pickers. Full pesticides screening and detailed pickers records are made to ensure absolute safety. Also, we are leading producers of soft fruit seedling material in the region (raspberry, blackberry, tayberry, currants, gooseberry, blueberry, cranberry, aronia, strawberry