Our markets Egy Berries Team · 13 November 2026

Egy Berries Around the World: Growing with Our Partners in 18 Markets

Where our frozen fruits and vegetables travel today

Twelve markets carry our regular programmes: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, India, Malaysia, Panama, Russia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Six more joined them recently: Algeria, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States.

Eighteen markets, five continents, one origin. Every single one of them started the same way: one buyer, one specification, one trial container.

New in this cycle: Algeria, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States.

Six new markets, one standard

A new market never asks for the same paperwork as the last one. Italy, the Netherlands and Poland sit inside the EU framework, where Egyptian strawberries currently carry an increased level of official controls at the border under Regulation (EU) 2026/194, so pre-notification in TRACES and a clean residue file are part of the shipment, not an afterthought. The United States works differently again: FDA facility registration, Prior Notice for every consignment and an FSVP programme run by the importer. Canada and Algeria each bring their own documentation and labelling expectations.

What does not change is the product behind the paperwork. A buyer in Warsaw, in Montreal or in Algiers receives fruit from the same fields, frozen on the same IQF lines, packed to the same specification sheet. That is the only way a market stays open after the first container.

What opening a market actually takes

1. The specification comes before the price. Calibre, cut, Brix, defect tolerances, packing and pallet pattern are agreed in writing first. A price without a specification behind it means nothing.
2. The sample is judged against that sheet. We send samples that match what the production line will deliver, not a hand-picked box.
3. The documents are mapped before loading. Health and phytosanitary certificates, certificate of origin or EUR.1, HS classification, pre-notification where the market requires it. Shipments are delayed by paperwork far more often than by quality.
4. The first container is a test of the system. Loading temperature, container checks, photos at stuffing, the cold chain all the way to the destination port.
5. The second container is the real decision. Anyone can send one good load. A market is only won when the second and the tenth look exactly like the first.

What our new markets taught us

• A market is a specification, not a country. Two buyers in the same city can want two different products.
• Documents fail shipments more often than quality does. We now build the document map for a market before we quote in it.
• Consistency beats a brilliant first container. Buyers remember the load that was different, not the ten that were right.
• Distance is managed by communication. Photos at loading, a named person who answers, and bad news delivered early rather than late.

Growing our dreams with our partners

It is easy to read a map like ours as a list of countries. We read it as a list of people.

It starts in Beheira, with the farming families we contract with season after season. We finance the planting, our agronomists stay with the farms through the season, and every farm follows the same protocol. When a buyer in Italy or in Canada approves a lot, that approval belongs to those fields as much as to our sales desk.

It continues in Sadat City, where the production and quality teams decide, shift after shift, whether a pallet is good enough to carry the Egy Berries name. And it ends with the buyers who gave us a first container when we were still a new name to them, and who are still with us several seasons later.

That is what we are proud of. Not the number eighteen, but the fact that behind it there are farmers, engineers, quality inspectors and buyers who grew with us. We did not expand into these markets. We grew into them, together.

The range that travels with us

Every market takes a different part of our range, and almost every market starts with strawberries.

• Fruits: frozen strawberries (whole and diced), mango and pomegranate arils.
• Vegetables: okra, molokhia, broccoli and cauliflower, artichoke, broad beans, green beans, carrots, peppers, green chili, sweet corn and onion.
• Packing: bulk 1 x 10 kg cartons, food service 10 x 1 kg or 4 x 2.5 kg, retail 20 x 400 g Egy Berries bags, and private label on request.

Our production follows FSSC 22000, GLOBALG.A.P., HACCP, ISO 22000 and ISO 9001, with US FDA and China GACC registrations in place and BRCGS practices on the line. Those are the keys that open most of the doors on the map above.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries does Egy Berries export frozen fruits and vegetables to?

We currently ship to 18 markets on five continents: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, India, Malaysia, Panama, Russia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, plus our newest markets Algeria, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States.

Can you supply a market you have not shipped to before?

Yes. Before quoting we check what that market requires from an Egyptian supplier, which registrations and certificates apply, and how the product has to be labelled and declared. If the route works, we start with a trial container against an agreed specification sheet.

Which certifications and registrations do you hold?

FSSC 22000, GLOBALG.A.P., HACCP, ISO 22000 and ISO 9001, with active US FDA and China GACC registrations. Production follows BRCGS practices.

How do we start as a new buyer?

Tell us the product, the cut, the pack and the destination. We send a specification sheet and an offer, then samples judged against that sheet, and we map the documents your market needs before the first container is loaded.

Information as of November 2026. The market list reflects the destinations we ship to at that date. Import requirements change: always confirm the current rules for your market with your own customs broker or competent authority.

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