MARAP HandelsgesmbH

www.marap.at

www.marap.co.uk

MARAP HandelsgesmbH was founded in 1999, and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
In the form of the KRESTO, BIO-LEBEN, LIFESTYLE ORGANIC, BIO-LOGISCH and PEARLS OF SAMARKAND brands, the highly motivated MARAP team has set itself the goal of offering its customers worldwide only the very best, most choice products in a healthy, top-class, premium quality.

Over the past decade, we have advanced from a position of trader of conventional foodstuffs to become a specialist for high-quality organic foods.
It is with a high standard of competence that we still distribute some of our original range of nuts, dried fruits and sugar.

As a matter of principle, we renounce the use of additives, colouring agents and flavour enhancers made either naturally or artificially.
We try to produce our products as naturally as possible.
Our own production companies as well as close cooperation with manufacturers all over the world enable the implementation of our ideas pertaining to product quality and consistency of all goods even during the primary production stage.

The latest logistics, international purchasing and reliable producers all over the world guarantee the best possible customer service.
We currently distribute our products in 28 countries worldwide.

OUR BRANDS

The Marap company comprises several high-quality brands with different orientations and target groups.

• Pearls of Samarkand is our latest brand, and has been designed especially for high-quality organic dried fruits and organic nuts as well as organic dried fruit and nut mixtures.
  Attractive packaging, delicious contents and modern design complete the market image. This brand covers many modern super foods and many exotic specialities and special regional delicacies.
  
  

• Bio-leben and Lifestyle Organic have been designed for the food retail trade, and comprises the classic range of organic dried fruits, nuts, seeds, sugar, cereals, flours, oils, waffles, snacks – all organic.
  Recent additions to the Bio-leben and Lifestyle Organic brands are innovative organic convenience food mixtures which come in a wide range of flavours and grades.
  
  
• Bio-logisch has been designed for large consumers in the field of gastronomy and the hotel industry.
  The range includes large containers for restaurateurs in the familiar Marap quality with a high degree of product safety combined with an excellent price-performance ratio. The main products in this range are organic dried fruits, organic nuts, organic rice and organic sugar.
  
  
• KRESTO was our first brand and, today, it stands for pulses, special cereals and Demerara sugar.
  Our KRESTO brand supplies both the food retail trade and large consumers in the field of gastronomy and the hotel trade. The KRESTO brand produces conventional (i.e. not organic) products only.
  
  
• Trademarks and Own Label  As an extremely innovative company, we gladly cooperate with you to develop products which fulfil your very own requirements.
  Contact us and let us know what these requirements are. We can produce both conventional products and products from controlled organic farming bearing your trademark. Our range starts at 50 g bags and goes through to 25 kg sacks, canned and bottled food, through to folding boxes.
  Our creative team can also work out suggestions for your exclusive brands and come up with new product developments.
  The production of trademarks is one of our fortes: we can even produce small quantities. Our flexibility guarantees the extremely fast implementation of such projects through to market maturity.

CONTRACT PACKAGING

We can package a multitude of products for you in modern, resealable packages.
The range covers pourable to sticky to floury items. Supervised processes, modern metal detectors and calibrated measuring instruments guarantee safe foodstuff products which comply with legal requirements. Fully automated box collection and palletising tasks complete the packaging process and enable very competitive prices.

RAW MATERIAL

We only process and trade in products which comply with the strict requirements of our quality assurance system.

The main products in our range are nuts, dried fruits, seeds and pulses in both organic and conventional (not organic) quality. We supply many renowned processors in the food industry and modern packaging plants worldwide.

QUALITY

Our company has been qualified according to IFS for years, and continually keeps on further developing the quality management.

Our objective is to produce safe food of the highest quality without any risks for consumers and processors. In order to attain this, we have increasingly invested in product safety for repeated tasks and always have powerful machinery in use for the elimination of risks.

• Disinfestation  All the organic foodstuffs processed in our facilities and several endangered conventional (not organic) foodstuffs are immediately disinfested following arrival.
  To do this, any pests – especially the tiniest larvae and eggs – are naturally destroyed in special chambers by the application of pressure and CO2, without the use of any chemicals or food toxins.
  This application does not leave behind any traces; hence, it can be used according to the EU Organic Ordinances 834/2007 and 889/2008 without any risk.
  
  
• Laser cleaning  We use the latest hi-tech cleaning systems in order to clear raw materials – which are already very clean when they come to us – of practically all foreign bodies such as pieces of shell, pips, stalks and stems, stones, glass, seeds of weeds, etc.
  This time-intensive and costly stage enables us to make products for the processing industry and for the wholesale and retail trades with the highest degree of purity and product safety.
  
  
• Chopping and mixing  We use extravagant recipes to produce homogenous dry food mixtures such as nut and dried fruit mixtures, convenience food mixtures based on rice and cereals, etc. on the most up-to-date mixing equipment.
  This is complemented by a chopping system with the most up-to-date milling technology with connected filter, where we can produce products in the sizes 0 to 8 mm.