Frozen Potato Products

distributor• Iraq

Hezheen Company General Trading, Import & Export / Ltd is a food importer and distributor based in Erbil, Iraq. The company says on its website that it was established to give Iraqi retailers and international food suppliers a single, accountable trade partner — one office that handles sourcing, customs clearance, cold-chain storage and delivery instead of a chain of intermediaries — and describes itself as a "food import house" built on one contract and one point of contact, sourcing from established international suppliers and delivering to the Iraqi trade documented and in date. The site states that sourcing, customs clearance, storage and delivery are run from its office at Downtown 101 in Erbil, that goods are cleared and warehoused under strict batch and expiry control with first-in-first-out rotation, with cold storage for frozen and chilled lines and continuous cold-chain control from port to warehouse. It says it serves food trade partners across Iraq: supermarkets and hypermarkets, grocery and corner stores, wholesalers and sub-distributors, restaurants and catering buyers, hotels and institutional kitchens, mini-markets and convenience stores, specialty food retailers, and government and institutional buyers. According to its website, the company imports four food categories: pantry and preserved goods (canned vegetables, pickles and preserves, tomato paste, sauces and condiments, cooking oils, rice, pulses and dry staples, pasta and noodles, in bulk and wholesale packs); dried fruits and nuts (dried apricots, figs and raisins, dates, almonds, cashews and walnuts, pistachios and peanuts, and mixed nut blends in wholesale sacks and retail packs); frozen foods (frozen vegetables and blends, frozen potato products, prepared and semi-prepared foods, frozen meat and poultry); and dairy and chilled goods (hard and semi-hard cheese, soft and speciality cheese, butter and cream, yoghurt and chilled dairy). The site does not name the brands it imports. The company says every shipment is cleared, batch-coded and documented before it reaches the warehouse and moves with full customs, health and trade documentation, and that it works on the terms of an ongoing trade account rather than a single shipment, with the office that opens an account managing every later order and capacity and terms confirmed directly with each partner. Its Erbil office takes sourcing enquiries, stockist requests and general trading proposals.