Rouen's MIN: a dynamic french wholesale market.

After celebrating its 40th birthday last year (which makes it as old as the Rungis wholesale market), Rouen's wholesale market, just a few dozen iles away from France's northeastern coast  is one of the several french wholesale markets who are fighting to stay dynamic. 

Rouen's wholesale market, better know as the MIN (National Interest Market) of Rouen, is fighting to survive the worlwide tendancy, which is to let wholesale markets disappear, leaving room for "buying groups". 

The MIN has re-grouped 12 fruits and vegetables operators (not only wholesalers, but also importers, exporters, distributors, and a ripening room) as well as 4 seafood wholesalers, 6 plant importers and wholesalers, 8 foodstuff wholesalers, 5 transporters, and 8 related insutries. 

The market office is doing all that is possible to keep the market a clean and confortable market as it has already renovated a section of the market several years ago. Several fruit and vegetable operators claim that even through these hard times, the Rouen wholesale market remains an important stop for fruit and vegetable as well as other food related professionals as retailers and restaurant owners share the parking lot with trollies coming from Italy, Belgium, and even Holland. 

For more info, contact the market office at +33 232 105 520, or visit their website: www.minrouen.com