The Company
We are a familiar partner for the processing and retail sector when it comes to the worldwide importation and logistical coordination of fruit, vegetables, nuts and dried fruit of the highest quality. With a tradition spanning over 80 years, we pride ourselves on being a trustworthy partner on a steady road to success.
Our seven subsidiaries in four European countries confidently cooperate with various established trade partners throughout the world. We offer a wide range of products including fruit and vegetables, as well as dried fruit. A further key trade sector for Kölla is to provide nuts and semi-finished goods to the trade market and food industry.
We consider quality and product confidence to be our primary concerns.
On the 1st of August 1921, Jon Scharplaz and Jean-Jacques Kölla launched the "Coloniala Handelsgesellschaft" for the import of colonial goods such as tea, coffee, animal feed and died fruits in Bern. In 1933 the company name changed to "Jean-Jacques Kölla, Grossimport-Agentur" and in 1952 evolved into the private limited partnership Kölla & Co.
Fruit and vegetables quickly replaced the colonial goods as the central trading commodity. Towards the end of the 1950?s a sales office was opened in Düsseldorf and the first step into
the German market was made.
The global fruit and vegetable trade still remains at the heart of the company today and is complimented and furthered through the marketing of dried fruit and semi-finished goods.
- 1921 foundation of the trading agency Kölla in Berne
- 1958 opening of the sales office in Dusseldorf
- 1966 opening of the sales office in Bisceglie (Puglia)
- 1975 opening of the sales office in Munich
- 1998 opening of the sales office in Valencia
- 1998 opening of the sales office in Hamburg
- 2001 opening of the sales office in Rotterdam
- 2002 opening of the sales office Kölla