Avocados

Avocados are available twelve months of the year. This continuity allows supply to be programmed without interruption and the product to be combined with the group's other fruit and vegetable lines in the same weekly load.

Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 (fruit per 4 kg box) are available, spanning the large fruit sought by the professional channel through to the small and medium counts common in unit sale and nets.

• Cardboard box.
• Single-layer tray, 4 kg: 176 boxes per Euro pallet, 220 per 100×120 pallet.

A single-layer box avoids pressure between fruit and reduces bruising in a product that marks easily, helping to maintain presentation at the point of sale. The 4 kg net weight also suits retailers who display the fruit directly in its box and wholesalers who split consignments into small daily orders for catering customers.

The recommended transport temperature is 6-8 °C. Avocados suffer chilling injury below that range and ripen faster if the temperature rises, so thermal stability in transit directly determines shelf life at destination.

The group's growers operate under GLOBALG.A.P. and IFS and under the equivalent standards required by European retailers. Each consignment is identified by lot and plot, with treatment controls in line with EU regulations and labelling adjusted to the receiving market.

Hortiberia treats avocados as an annual programme line, with regular review of sizes according to fruit development and each customer's demand.