Unica Group
A cooperative of cooperatives
Status: Second-tier cooperative
A second-tier cooperative uniting 19 cooperatives: €806 million in business volume in 2024/25 and Spain's leading fresh-vegetable exporter.
Official website — unicagroup.es
In figures
- €806M
- record business volume (2024/25)
- 19
- member cooperatives
- ~5,000
- growers
- ~9,000 ha
- under cultivation
- 25
- packing centres
- ~80%
- of production exported
About Unica Group
Unica Group does not gather growers directly but whole cooperatives that join forces to market together — each keeping its own identity. Born in 2009 in Almería, the formula has grown to 19 cooperatives across eight provinces and is regarded as Spain's most successful case of cooperative integration: Medalla de Andalucía in 2014 and Premio Alimentos de España in 2024.
The numbers follow: a record €806 million in business volume in the 2024/25 season, some 5,000 growers, 9,000 hectares and around 80% of production exported. Through Unica Fresh it is Spain's leading exporter of fresh vegetables.
Its other signature is innovation: Europe's first snack-cucumber producer, the Tatayoyo pepper and the Zucchiolo hybrid came out of its fields, and at the PITA park it is building its Agribusiness Centre, conceived as a southern-European agri-food hub.
The network lines up twenty-five packing centres across eight provinces and some twelve thousand farm workers in the fields. Germany, Poland, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Austria lead the destination markets, and the fresh-cut and ready-meal lines — washed salads, ready-to-cook kits — round out the fresh offer.
In pictures
Milestones
Brands and flagship products
- Unica Fresh Spain's leading fresh-vegetable exporter
- Freshquita fresh fruit and vegetable brand
- Chiliworld hot-pepper assortment
- Tatayoyo award-winning flavour pepper
- Zucchiolo hybrid vegetable born of its innovation
Commitments
- 01
GlobalG.A.P., GRASP, BRC, IFS Food and Naturland (organic)
- 02
UNICA Agribusiness Centre at the PITA park
- 03
Member cooperatives keep their own identity