Frutas Rafael Manzano e Hijos, S.L.

What Frutas Rafael Manzano e Hijos, S.L. does

Frutas Rafael Manzano e Hijos, S.L. is a small, family-named Spanish limited company (Sociedad Limitada) operating in the fruit sector, founded in 1979 and headquartered in Salobreña, on the Granada coast in Andalusia, Spain. The legal name — "Hijos" meaning "sons" — indicates a multi-generational family business structure. With a headcount of approximately 23 employees, the company is positioned as a small-to-mid-sized operator in southern Spain's agricultural value chain.

The firm operates from Salobreña, a municipality in Granada province historically associated with subtropical fruit cultivation (mangoes, avocados, custard apples / chirimoyas, and citrus). The "Frutas" designation in the company name and the regional location are consistent with a fruit production, packing, and/or wholesale distribution business. The firm's website (frutasmanzano.com) is its primary listed digital asset; the source content from the site returned only a loading/verification page, so product mix, customer base, certifications, distribution channels, and pricing mechanisms are not documented in the available data.

Beyond firmographic data — founding year, headcount, registered location, and corporate form — there is no disclosed information on revenue, customers, product portfolio, ownership structure, strategic transactions, or technology stack. As such, any characterization of the company's revenue model, go-to-market motion, customer segments, or competitive positioning beyond the inferences above is unsupported by the source material.

Name

Frutas Rafael Manzano e Hijos, S.L.

Legal name

Frutas Rafael Manzano e Hijos, S.L.

Website

https://frutasmanzano.com

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Frutas Rafael Manzano e Hijos, S.L. is a small, family-owned Spanish fruit company founded in 1979, based in Salobreña, Granada, operating with approximately 23 employees in Andalusia's subtropical fruit region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fresh Fruits

NAICS

Vegetable and Melon Farming (1112)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Tropical & Subtropical Fruit Orchards (Avocados, Mangoes, Bananas/Plantains, Pineapples, Papayas) (AFAGACAF)

Keywords

• Fresh fruit production
• Tropical fruit farming
• Fruit wholesale distribution
• Spanish agricultural products
• Mediterranean fruit supply

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Frutas Rafael Manzano e Hijos, S.L. is a Spanish agricultural producer and distributor of fresh fruit, headquartered in Salobreña, Granada. Operating from Spain's Costa Tropical — a microclimate renowned for tropical and Mediterranean fruit cultivation — the company produces and supplies fruit typical of the region, including tropical varieties (mangoes, avocados, cherimoyas) and Mediterranean produce. The company runs a focused, small-scale operation with approximately 23 employees, consistent with a specialized producer rather than a mass-market supplier. [Inferred from company name and location]

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Broad incumbents

• Mission Produce: Global avocado value-chain leader with European operations. Comparable to the extent avocados are part of Frutas Rafael Manzano's tropical-fruit portfolio, representing the dominant competitive benchmark for that category.
• Special Fruit: Belgian specialist importer of tropical and exotic fruit into European retail and food-service. Comparable as a downstream channel it would access to reach EU markets, and a benchmark for category management of tropical fruit.
• Compagnie Fruitière: Pan-European tropical-fruit producer and importer with origins in Africa. Comparable as a major European tropical-fruit incumbent whose distribution footprint and category breadth shape the competitive landscape for small Spanish growers.
• Edeka Fruchtkontor: Major European fresh-produce distributor sourcing tropical and exotic fruit from Spain (including Andalusia). Comparable as a downstream buyer and indirect competitor for shelf space in EU tropical-fruit channels.

Direct peers

• TROPS: Spain's leading tropical-fruit cooperative (mango, avocado, chirimoya) headquartered in Málaga, Andalusia. TROPS is the most direct comparable to Frutas Rafael Manzano e Hijos given the shared geography, crop mix, and Spanish tropical-fruit value chain.
• Granada La Palma: Cooperative of 700+ growers in the Granada tropical-fruit region producing tropical fruits, citrus, and greenhouse vegetables. Comparable due to the same microclimate zone (Costa Tropical) and overlapping crop portfolio of subtropical fruits.
• Frutas Esther: Spanish family-owned producer and exporter of stone fruit and tropical fruit based in Murcia. Comparable because it is a similarly-sized, multi-generational family fruit operation exporting from southern Spain to European markets.
• Natural Tropic: Spanish producer-exporter of mangoes, avocados, and chirimoyas from the Granada tropical coast. Comparable as a same-region, same-crop specialist serving European retail and wholesale channels.

Regional players

• Grupo La Caña: Large Andalusian fruit and vegetable producer-exporter (headquartered in Granada). Comparable as a regional Southern Spain producer with overlapping tropical and subtropical categories, though at significantly larger scale.
• Agricover / SAT cooperatives in Andalusia: Network of Andalusian SAT (Sociedad Agraria de Transformación) cooperatives representing small and medium fruit growers in southern Spain. Comparable as structural peers — alternative aggregation or distribution models for the same family-farmer base in the region.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Investments

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