The Unica Group AN Group and merge by integration.

Unica Group AN Group and agreed, after several months of talks, their integration to form a cooperative giant with a presence in eight regions, will be leading exporter of fruits and vegetables.

This is a fusion by integrating almeriense Unica Group within the AN Group, an operation to missing only the formal document, as sources of both groups.

The union will take the group to bill navarro 919 million (from 684 AN million and 235 million Unica Group) and have livestock farmers and partners, installations and industrial plants in Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla - La Mancha, Castilla y León, La Rioja, Murcia, Navarra and the Basque Country.

AN operation will consolidate the Group as the second Spanish cooperative for billing, only behind Galician Coren, and ahead of Anecoop, Dcoop, Covap, Cobadu, AGROP, ACOR the Actel.

After melting said integration, section Unica from Almeria Group will handle all exports of fruit and vegetables, and incorporate your current catalog productions of the Ebro and Duero the AN Group, as cruciferous (cauliflower, broccoli or cabbage), apples and pears conference.

Thus, section Tudela (Navarra) the AN Group is responsible for part of the business which specializes, the internal market for seasonal produce -in fresh-, and will incorporate turn the catalog and products Unica Group.

Tudela centralize activities second range or canned vegetables -apoyándose in both the AN Group factories has Andosilla and Castejón (Navarra)-, IV and V range-from AN Group owned factory in Tudela (Plant Green Line Navarra)- and frozen, with participation of the AN Group in congeladoras to also incorporate the product of Almería-.

AN Group, before the fusion is performed Unica, -of closed last year 1 July of 2013 to 30 of June of 2014- with a turnover of 684 million euros, 84 million euros of equity and net income of 8,2 million euros.

AN Group currently has 145 agricultural cooperatives members of Navarra, Aragon, Castilla y León, Castilla - La Mancha, La Rioja and the Basque Country, adhering to 30.861 farmers.

It is the largest grain cooperative in Spain -comercializa 1.277.009 tons-; the fourth operator in poultry -vende 150.000 chickens daily processing in Melida (Navarra) and Avila- and operates 150.000 tons of fruits and vegetables, and has central purchasing cooperatives for fertilizer, seeds, phytosanitary, feed, fuel and insurance.

On the other hand, Unica Group, After 6 year history, provides billing 215 Product million this season -235 million if services are included and asociadas- companies. Almeria, which will market 230 million kilos of 1.750 associated farmers which cultivate 2.000 hectares greenhouse and 700 more outdoor- account template 2.800 workers.

Group currently only adheres to the cooperative Cabasc, Casur, Cohorsan, Share 120, The group, Ferva and Natural Park, located in the provinces of Granada, Almeria and Murcia. It is a major marketing cooperatives volume and the largest exporter of vegetables from Spain.

Both companies have emphasized that, among its objectives, figure “develop growth poles for others related to the philosophy of the project cooperatives to join the different sections”, Since “the critical factor remains the size”.

They have argued that share the same philosophy regarding the farmer's partner and the business vision medium- and long-term. “There are a variety of synergies will be explored to achieve a better position in the markets and customers that benefit for partners”, They have claimed.