“From both suppliers and olives”

Mercadona points out in this regard that “all our olive oils are 100% Spanish in origin, both the suppliers and the olives used.” The company he runs Juan Roig He stresses that in the case of “liquid gold”, “we work with cooperatives and oil mills from different geographical areas of Andalusia.”

Mercadona The company currently relies on four specialist suppliers to supply the olive oil it sells in its supermarkets. Yenkoopfounded in 1986 and based in the Andalusian town of Villanueva del Arzobispo, is “the first cooperative group producing and marketing olive oil in the province of Jaén, the world benchmark for olive oil.” It is a supplier of extra virgin and extra virgin olive oil. Farmer The Mercadona cooperative has 26,000 members and fifteen million olive trees.

Oleosteppelocated in the Seville town of Estepa, is the supplier of a wide range of extra virgin olive oils for Hacendado. This second-degree cooperative society, founded in 1986, is a company that produces and sells extra virgin olive oil.

At the moment it is cooperative group It brings together more than 7,500 farmers who own around 60,000 hectares of olive groves, “which constitute an ecosystem of more than 10 million olive trees, grown using integrated and ecological production methods that guarantee their sustainability.” Oleostepa explains that its oil comes from oil mills located in the provinces of Seville, Cordoba and Malaga.

Mercaoleo It supplies Mercadona with 0.4% ABV olive oil, soft olive oil and premium olive oil. The company is headquartered in Malaga. Antequera and is the oil arm of the Dcoop group, which brings together “75,000 farming families, united today in the world’s leading olive oil producer.” According to the company, its packaging plant “is one of the most modern and automated in the world, with a capacity of over 100 million liters, high-speed bottling lines and an intelligent warehouse.”

Golden Bailén Oils Galgon 99 completes the list of current suppliers of Mercadona. Located in the municipality of Jaén Villanueva de la ReinaThe company produces Casa Juncal picual extra virgin olive oil, which is sold in a chain of supermarkets in the capital of Valencia.

Mercadona is relying on national production of one of the stars of the Mediterranean diet in the face of falling retail prices. In fact, the company, which is engaged in commercial distribution in Spain, has reduced the prices of eleven types of olive oil that it currently has in its range.

Mercadona insists that “more than 85% of our range is of national origin and consists of products grown, caught, processed or reprocessed in Spain.”