It’s been a great season for Polish apple according to Mateusz Wajnert, head of sales at Polish exporter Galster: “Looking at the Polish apple season as a whole It’s simple to put it into one sentence: There’s nothing to feel bad about it, but there’s no reason to boast about. It was a good time to conduct well during the fall. The first shipment was made after the apple was removed from the trees. In many markets, demand was extremely high during this time. Many consumers were waiting on the first harvest in Poland and they were able to begin receiving their first shipment.”

While sales did decrease in the month prior, Wajnert states that the market has since returned to its peak: “I’ve noticed that the recent seasons have seen sales fall off around the middle of December to the beginning of January. In the past few weeks have seen a lot of sales, however we encountered problems with problems with Suez canal. However, the good news is it’s the same as in earlier seasons, business is growing at full pace from the 10th day of January.”

In the sense that Galster discovered an exciting market which has an abundance of visitors and Wajnert is over the moon that customers from around the globe have been enjoying the Galster’s apple: “Our export is done in the same countries that which we’ve always exported to, but we managed to locate a few markets, too. We ship our fruit in The Canary Islands and it’s nice to know that people from around the world eat Galster apple there. When you consider the Queen of Variety that is Gala Royal. Gala Royal. It’s difficult to tell which varieties are performing lower than they were expected to this time. The majority of varieties get the same amount of attention for them, including Golden, Red Chief or the Red Jonaprince.”

The issue of the current situation around and affecting the Red Sea is one of Galster’s major challenges at present according to Wajnert. “Currently one of our greatest challenges include logistics issues for our customers with long shipping times. It is imperative to choose an apple batch with care to rest peacefully since their transit times to certain of them can be twice as long than when we could send the items through by the Suez canal.”

Even though prices are higher that they were but it’s not all great since some varieties haven’t experienced a price increase in the time since harvest began: “At this time we are able to get slightly lower prices than when we were in the same season last year. The value of industry apples is much higher than the previous season. The problem is that some kinds have not had any price increases since the moment they first started to be harvested. That means that we won’t be able to earn the amount we been paying to store the apples for this long.” Wajnert concludes.

More information is available here:

Mateusz Wajnert

Galster Sp. z o.o.

Tel: +48 660 042 551

Email: mateusz.wajnert@galster.pl

www.galster.pl