Marmarabirlik

Marmarabirlik was established with joint of Gemlik, Mudanya, and Erdek Olive Agricultural Sales Cooperatives. A year after the establishment of Marmarabirlik, Orhangazi Olive Agriculture Sale Cooperative joined the union. Then, in the 1970s and 1980s, Marmarabirlik received other olive agriculture sale cooperatives as a member of the union in the region, to increase production capacity. These cooperatives respectively joined the union, İznik in 1970, Edincik in 1976, Mürefte in 1986 and finally Marmara in 1988, and now, the numbers of its members are eight cooperatives.

Today, Marmarabirlik has been established on a total area of 403,000 square meters with a building area 136,000 square meters and an olive storage capacity of 70,400 tons. The union also has an olive packing capacity of approximately 150 tons/day and olive oil production and filling capacity of approximately 220 tons/day in Bursa. In total, over 600 workers are to be employed throughout the union to be able to manage and use this capacity.

Marmarabirlik produces an average of 30,000 tons of fresh olive per year. Marmarabirlik conducts sales and marketing activities of produced its products to whole of Turkey with 58 dealers in 78 provinces, to Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Russia, Northern Cyprus, Bulgaria and to whole Europe with contracted buyer companies and to Canada, United States and Australia markets.

Marmarabirlik sells its table olives in 205 different packagings, which are produced by natural fermentation which means untreated olives are placed directly in brine with slight surface depression and without the addition of a preservative.

The company sells its products under the name of Marmarabirlik, Marbir, and Unimar trade brand. Marmarabirlik sells packaged the entire production and, a total of approximately 225 different packages are used for products of green and black table olives, olive oil, and olive paste.