The La Portella company thus incorporates a new plant and 600 hectares of fruit trees, in addition, it already had farms in Aragon and Extremadura<\/p>\n
The Catal\u00e0 Group, from La Portella, has bought the assets of the fruit farm JM Los Frutales, located in Villena. With this, the Lleida company continues with its expansion and strengthens itself as one of the main fruit groups in the State.<\/strong> The Lleida company thus incorporates 600 hectares of apple, pear, plum, cherry, quince and peach trees, with computerized irrigation systems, from the Alicante company. In addition, it acquires the 7,400m2 fruit plant, equipped with fruit sorting machines and cold rooms.<\/p>\n JM Los Frutales belongs to a family business group that was born in the footwear sector and that in 1972 entered the fruit industry. For its part, Grupo Catal\u00e0 was born more than half a century ago<\/strong> and produces and markets sweet fruit under three own brands. It has manufacturing centers in Lleida, M\u00e9rida and Tenerife, where both its own production and that acquired from third parties arrive.<\/p>\n According to the public data of the company, only in the province of Lleida it has farms with 310 hectares of fruit trees in Albesa, Torrelameu, Castell\u00f3 de Farfanya, Gerb, \u00d2s de Balaguer and Ser\u00f3s. In Aragon it also has another 85 hectares, while four more from Extremadura add up to 623. That is, its farms until the acquisition totaled more than a thousand hectares, and now they will exceed 1,600 hectares.<\/strong><\/p>\nInvestments<\/strong><\/h2>\n