Its truffles are now reaching countries with a known tradition for foraging for and eating truffles like Italy, Germany and France.
“In 2024, we devised a strategic development plan for our company, expanding in Europe. After doing our research in Italy, Germany, Croatia, Hungary and France, we signed partnerships with major truffle processors and .sellers in Europe,” Vlad Timis, Truffle Tim chief executive officer, told ZF.
“We also started to participate in Romsilva’s public tenders for harvesting truffles and other forest products, and the in the summer of the same year started exporting truffles to our European partners, thus developing into an extensive industry.”
France and Italy have the highest truffle production in the EU. Other European countries, like Spain, Croatia and Hungary, haves started developing truffle crops. Romania is a significant actor in this business in the EU, too, having caught up with this truffle hunting trend, as truffles are used in the HoReCa and food industries, Vlad Timis added.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)