Suppliers you should know: Food & beverage
LA MARQUISE
La Marquise marketing manager Olga Cassidy reveals new gelato ingredient flavours from MEC3
What can your clients expect from your company in 2017?
La Marquise International is aiming to open an office and showroom in the second half of the year to grow our local presence and gain more market share. Once fully established, we will be able to provide more efficient support to our existing clients; this would include 24/7 technical maintenance service, an academic gelato, pastry and barista training, as well as a business consultancy. In addition, the expansion plan will enable us to widen our portfolio of products offered in Qatar.
What are some of your best selling products or services for the Qatar market?
MEC3 gelato ingredients is our top seller in the F&B line for Qatar. MEC3 is a premium gelato ingredients manufacturer from Italy. The company holds the majority of market share among gelato ingredients producers worldwide and in the Middle East. The top three best sellers from MEC3 in Qatar are: Mecroche topping with Ferrero Roche flavour, Pistachio Pure 100% Sicily Premium paste and Rose paste.
Any new partnerships, agreements or R&D collaborations that your company has engaged in recently?
The MEC3 R&D department is very dynamic. We had five new and exciting flavours launched at Gulfood, such as: pine nuts, sugared almond gelato, extra dark and extra blonde for new dark chocolate and milk chocolate flavours, and even tomato gelato! Yes, a gelato with tomato taste. These days, vegetable flavours in desserts have become more and more popular.
Which new hotels in Qatar have you signed recently?
La Marquise is working closely with Mövenpick hotels, Rotana Group and recently, with The Ritz-Carlton Doha.
Stat attack: Year founded: 2002 • Number of employees: 100
BAKEMART
Bakemart founder and managing director T.K. Khaleel discloses details of the company’s new chapter
What can your clients expect from your company in 2017?
With our production centres in Qatar, Dubai and Bahrain, we have been successful at developing an excellent food network which can deliver on any big promises we make. Customers can be assured of the quality and safety of Bakemart‘s products as we operate best-in-class QA systems across all of our facilities. Our bakeries have achieved the highest level of accreditation from leading food safety organisations such as HACCP, as well as meeting stringent customer audit standards.
What are some of your best selling products or services for the Qatar market?
Bakemart manufactures and supplies both ready to eat and frozen products such as breads, viennoiseries and cake slabs with consistent quality while giving core focus to health and safety.
Any new partnerships, agreements or R&D collaborations that your company has engaged in recently?
The visionaries of Bakemart have begun a new chapter into their story called ‘Bakemart Gourmet’. Over the next few years, Bakemart has major expansion and make-over plans to reinvent its brand image in retail as ‘Bakemart Gourmet’. The goal is to set new benchmarks for its product quality and offering and be a connoisseur of fine food and beverages, by introducing haute cuisines characterised by refined, even elaborate preparations and presentations of aesthetically balanced meals of several contrasting, often quite rich, courses to satiate the desire of people with refined taste and passion.
Which new hotels in Qatar have you signed recently?
We are currently supplying to major three, four and five-star hotels in Qatar and discussions are going on with major upcoming hotels in Qatar to sign and start supplying Bakemart products to them as soon as they get operational.
Stat attack: Annual YOY turnover growth: 22%
LUXURY TRADE & MARKETING GROUP (LTMG)
LTMG CEO and board member Alexander Hildebrand expounds on the USPs of being an internationally managed Qatar-founded company
What can your clients expect from your company in 2017?
As a valued customer of the hospitality division of Luxury Trade & Marketing Group, you can rely on professional, expert advice and the best all-round service.
What are some of your best selling products or services for the Qatar market?
Our large and unique product range includes freshly roasted coffee “Made in Qatar”, high quality furniture produced in Germany and other European countries and an all-encompassing assortment of high quality and ecological consumables that cover all the needs of horeca industry companies. Many of our products are available without long delivery times as we operate a large, local warehouse.
Stat attack: Annual rate of growth: 2015 (15%) and 2016 (18%)
PULSAR FOODSTUFF
Pulsar Foodstuff sales manager Kenny Bruce reveals how pursuing personalisation as well as low cost packaging pays off
What can your clients expect from your company in 2017?
Certainly within Qatar, we are aiming to really increase our product range and visibility to the clients. We have also streamlined our own product registration process and can ensure a smoother delivery system from start to finish.
What are some of your best selling products or services for the Qatar market?
Our personalised minibar products have been very popular since we increased our presence in Qatar. We have recently invested in a new range of low cost packaging to meet the needs of a changing market which is seeing more and more mid-range hotels enter the region. As the leading supplier of in-room snacks to the hotel industry, we want to ensure that all hotels have the opportunity to increase their brand value and enhance the customer experience.
Which new hotels in Qatar have you signed recently?
We have recently started working with The Ritz-Carlton and continue to supply all Rotana properties.
Stat attack: Annual rate of YOY growth: 10% • Number of employees: 30
QATAR NATIONAL IMPORT AND EXPORT CO.
QNIE marketing manager Maher Bassam Chukir says that QNIE is growing from strength to strength in 2017
What can your clients expect from your company in 2017?
We expect to experience further growth and expand our product range with more brands.
What are some of your best selling products or services for the Qatar market?
For Qatar, the following are the most sought after: meats, coffee, seafood, bakery ingredients and organic healthy products.
Any new partnerships, agreements or R&D collaborations that your company has engaged in recently?
We are introducing to the market Ahmad Tea London, Segafredo Zanetti coffee, Oreo ice cream and Sysco foodservice solutions.
Which new hotels in Qatar have you signed recently?
We worked with The St. Regis Doha for the in-room coffee system and with Sealine Beach Resort in Qatar regarding a full coffee supply agreement.
Trivia: 2014: On QNIE’s 50th anniversary, it unveiled the largest frozen warehouse in Qatar.