“The idea about a walnut kernel processing business came up three years ago. We did nut fillings for cakes at Supremia and using walnut kernels we thought we could start our own business. We started slowly and saw there was demand on the market,” Levente Bara recalls. He established food industry ingredient maker Supremia Group 15 years ago and sold it to France’s Solina group this year.
To ensure development of its business, the company recently bought Ava 3 Company SRL in Curtici-Arad (western Romania), one of the largest walnut kernel processors in the country. The company posted more than 27 million lei (EUR6 million) revenue last year. The deal will boost Transilvania Nut’s production capacity five times and help it increase the number of customers in Romania and in Europe.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)