POB 20601
Tel Aviv 61206
Tel: 972-3-5630900
website: www.agrexco.comIndustry:Wholesale and retail trade, Agriculture, forestry, fishing, huntingLocation:IsraelAnnual Revenues:$500M-$1BTraded in:PrivateUpdated:10-11-2008
Export fruits, vegetables and flowers from Israel/ Palestine, some of which are grown in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The company has a regional office in the occupied Jordan Valley.
Common Brand names: Carmel, Carmel Bio Top (organic produce), Jaffa, Jordan Plains and Alesia.
In a court case in November of 2006, the General Manager of Agrexco UK at that time, Amos Orr, testified that Agrexco markets 60-70% of the agricultural produce grown in Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.
See side picture - Agrexco's brand name for organic produce (Carmel BioTop) is used on a sign for a vineyard in the West Bank settlement of Thekoa.
Involved in:
Agrexco is owned by the Israeli government (50%), Israeli growers represented by the country’s production and marketing boards (25%), and the Tnuva cooperative (25%), whose controlling shareholder is Apax Partners (UK and USA).
Subsidiaries include: Agrexco (France), Agrexco (US), Carmexco (Italy), Eclectic, Carmel Cor, LACHS, Dalia (Germany).
