It is not yet dawn when commercial activity starts at MercaGranada, the largest logistics and service center specializing in food in Granada, which supplies the province, as well as neighboring towns in other provinces such as Malaga, Jaen, Cordoba and Almeria. Last year, more than 122 million kilos of fruit and vegetable products were marketed in its facilities and more than nine million kilos of seafood products were sold. More than one million kilos of frozen fish alone were sold, mainly frozen seafood (589,000 kilos), followed by frozen whiting (44,800), frozen sole (76,000), frozen hake (68,250) and other frozen products (230,000).
Its sales volume makes MercaGranada one of the nerve centers of the food sector in Granada. In its facilities, with more than a hundred wholesale companies housed, Congelados Apolo has a great weight. The company from Lojeña, Andalusia’s leader in the frozen food sector, sells more than 4,000 boxes of frozen fish and seafood daily in this logistics center. Among Apolo’s star products in these specialized facilities is its range of origin, in addition to prawns and octopus.
Apolo imports its origin varieties from the best fishing grounds in the world and then processes and packages them. Fish (such as cod, presented in different cuts – tails, loins, fillets, belly fillets, centers), Chinese monkfish y Namibian skinless monkfish, red snapper, panga swordfish, tongue, pollock or tilapia) mollusks (among these are clams from Vietnamclams, coquinas from Doñana, razor clams, tiger mussels and bateamar) and other seafood products (such as Indian squid, squid rings, Chinese baby squidgulas or squid tube) are some of Apolo’s products of origin.
As for shrimp and octopus, Apolo markets different varieties and formats. From the company’s special seafood cooker, with a capacity of 1,500 tons, some 800 tons of shrimp and octopus are produced. 800 tons of prawns per year, while its shrimp cooker has a capacity of 1,500 tons.while its octopus cooker produces around 150,000 kilos a year in the 150,000 kilos per year in the style of the best octopus cookers..
The sectors that lead the demand for Apolo products in MercaGranada are the hotel and catering industry, as well as the small commerce linked to food. In its multipurpose warehouse (stand 939) there are around 250 references of the company, both of its own brand and of its distributors. In this logistics center of MercaGranada Apolo not only stands out for its sales linked to the quality of its products. It also stands out for its its integral advisory service, a hallmark that distinguishesa hallmark that distinguishes its wholesale sales.
