Exotic fruit,
imported and grown.

At sixteen, Dinesh Shinde starts work at the retail counter of his grandmother, Anusaya Ramchandra Shinde, in a family that has traded produce in the city since the 1950s. In the early 2000s he joins his uncle, Vilas Shinde, supplying luxury hotels and running wholesale and retail distribution.

Founded at twenty-seven, on eleven years in the trade. Exotic fruit imported from Thailand, Australia, the USA and the Netherlands for small retail chains, independent shops, hotels and fine restaurants — the book that Marriott, Starbucks and McDonald’s buy from today.

Buys direct from farms, packs in-house and exports to India and the Middle East. Also the sourcing point for Thai fruit into Europe and the USA, and the import side of the frozen-berry trade.

Began with Indian and Thai fruit for the wholesalers of Al Aweer market; became a registered vendor to Carrefour UAE and built a distribution centre, office and logistics base in Ras Al Khor, beside the central market. Now the consolidation hub for the Middle East.

From a stall in the Los Angeles produce market to a cold store and distribution facility built through the pandemic. Washington apples, California blueberries and stone fruit, and onions, mangoes, berries and citrus from growers in Mexico, for wholesalers, retail, food service and hotels in Los Angeles — plus the group’s own blueberry farms in Mississippi.

Fresh and frozen blueberries to India and the USA. A Vancouver distribution centre opened in March 2024, supplying retail, food service, hotels and restaurants six days a week, around the clock, from the USA, South America, Thailand and India.

Citrus, apples, pears, cherries, blueberries and avocados to India and the Gulf, in a season that runs when the northern hemisphere’s has ended. Quality, logistics and finance under contract with trusted third parties while the team is small.

Apple, blueberry, cherry and kiwifruit growers and packhouses. The Chilean office is the operating hub for both South American entities, with a procurement team on the ground and third-party inspection of every export.

Blueberries, avocados and asparagus for the Gulf and Asian markets, run from the Chilean hub.

Serbia is the export hub for frozen berries to India and Vietnam; London consolidates cheese, gourmet and packaged foods for India and Dubai; New Zealand sources avocados for Asian markets.