The volume marketed by Mercabarna increased by 4.6%

Satisfactory year 2019 for Mercabarna, the wholesale market in Barcelona which recorded a 4.6% increase in volumes sold.

 

 

 

Mercabarna continues to be one of the European wholesale market leaders in terms of fruit and vegetable sales with a total of 2,108,354 tonnes sold in 2019, 4.6% more than in 2018.

 

 

 

This increase in the sales volume of the fruit and vegetables sector is a consequence of the large product offer that the market presented, throughout 2019, due to a very favorable climate in Spain. To this influx of products, we must add the trend observed among consumers who increase their demand for healthy food, whether at home or through restaurants. Finally, the last factor for this growth in sales, the increase in foreign buyers of food products directly on the market, for distribution throughout Europe.

 

 

 

Adding the fish / seafood and meat products sectors, the total volume marketed in 2019 by the market amounts to 2,355,293 tonnes of foodstuffs, which is 4.2% more than in 2018.