TODAY together more than a thousand people, Current and former WORKERS, CONTRIBUTORS, CUSTOMERS, FRIENDS AND SUPPLIERS.
In addition, more intimate level, will carry out a small tribute of thanks to Don and Doña Dolores Juliano, parents of the current directors and founders of Bonny Group. And it is that things have changed a lot since that 1935 Don Juliano launch its first tomato crop, However, family and entrepreneurial spirit is as valid as the first day.
Juliano Bonny Gómez, at the age of 33 years, It began with growing tomatoes on the outskirts of the city of Las Palmas and Telde with the idea of exporting to UK, where his brother Antonio Bonny and a group of English friends possessed an importer of fruits and vegetables, well located and established in the major port city of Liverpool.
Between 1935 and 1950 and despite the Spanish Civil War and World War II, BONNY continued its exports both to the port of Liverpool, and the Southampton and Hamburg. Since those years, Bonny Group growth has been unstoppable, participating in events that have been decisive for the agricultural business development of the Islands, as was for example the establishment in the sixties of a major air traffic between Gran Canaria tomatoes, London and Amsterdam, or construction, in the seventies, the first seawater desalination plant, essential to the cultivation of cucumber.
and consolidated in the production and export of fresh cucumber tomato and winter, The challenge for the Group has focused in recent years on the production of renewable energy and photovoltaic -wind- to improve energy efficiency.
Like this, the Bonny Group, Following this philosophy that has characterized them and led them to be one of the groups most important family business in this archipelago, dispose of 500 has. distributed throughout Gran Canaria and which also tomato and cucumbers, They have a significant volume of papaya, which soon other tropical products will be added, the result of tests being done for some years.
The tomato, flagship
The tomato is its flagship product, mainly Boludo and Dorothy, a classic type complete with specialties such as branch, money, cherry, cherry rama, cherry pear, beef, etc., always with traceability, besides AENOR, BRC Global Standard for Food, A 155000-155102, Tesco Nature´s Choice y M&S Field to Fork. "We are members of SEDEX Ethical Trade, entity that certifies our commitment to improving working and social conditions of workers ", points from the entity, also noting that feature 15 has. cucumbers, tomatoes and green.
Among its main clients, English supermarkets and Scandinavian stand, as well as others in Germany, even to Iceland: Sainsburys, Tesco, Marks and Spencer y Morrisons en R. United; ICA in Sweden and Norway, Danish Supermarket en Dinamarca, Kesko in Finland, etc.
Without a doubt, the great human and professional work of former and current workers has been the key to Bonny today is celebrating their 75 anniversary, because they are those who have managed to transmit responsibility and experience in the difficult food industry.
It has also been a cornerstone of the Group's willingness to adapt to changing times. Bonny has always shown a pioneering spirit, applying technological innovations in crop and packaging, incorporating integrated control methods and always meeting the requirements of different customers for regular, quality controls, traceability, packaging and prepacked, etc.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE GROUP BONNY!