BUY

COOPERATIVES

GHVG and EZG interest groups

  • GHVG – Großmarkt Hamburg Verwaltungsgenossenschaft e.G.

    Representation of market companies

    The management cooperative, Großmarkt Hamburg Verwaltungs-Genossenschaft e.G., represents 97 percent of traders based in the market and their joint interests.

    Among other things, GHVG is responsible for taking back transport packaging in accordance with Section 4 of the Packaging Directive.

    On behalf of the State enterprise Wholesale Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Wholesale Market, it is responsible for:

    • disposing of spoilage, packaging material and other waste
    • cleaning sanitary facilities
    • gate services
    • clearing snow and ice (winter service)


    (Dies gilt nicht für die der Marktgemeinschaft Blumengroßmarkt Hamburg e.G. zugeordneten Flächen.)

    Over and above these duties, GHVG also supports marketing campaigns conducted by the wholesale market with donations of fruit and by providing staff to help with implementation, e.g. for zespri campaigns and weekly market anniversaries.

    On 21.08.2006, GHVG received the award of “Hamburg Ökoprofit Company 2006”. On the basis of this voluntary ecological certification, GHVG has also been able to become a partner in the city of Hamburg’s environmental partnership.

  • EZG – Erzeugergemeinschaft Obst, Gemüse und Blumen e.G.

    Representing the producers

    The EZG (Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Producers Association) provides sales stands for its gardeners in Aisle A of the wholesale market hall in Hamburg. The producers’ area is made available to gardeners according to their requirements. They sell their home-grown fruit, vegetables and flowers directly to the trade, restaurants, weekly markets, commercial kitchens, ship supply services, etc., using EZG’s environmentally friendly red and yellow returnable crates.

    Members are made up of small and medium-sized family businesses. They all come from the surrounding areas around Hamburg and they shape the cultivated and recreational areas of Hamburg such as Moorwerder, Vier- und Marschlande, altes Land and Bardowick. They all sell their freshly produced, local vegetables, fruit and flowers directly in Hamburg’s wholesale market.

    Our strengths:

    • guaranteed freshness at attractive prices directly from a producer from the region
    • enormous variety and immediate delivery
    • service that meets individual wishes
    • customers buy the produce in returnable crates which they can return after use
    • resulting savings in disposal costs for disposable packaging