WHO WE ARE

Trade Solutions (Scotland) Ltd is a small, tightly knit team which blends youth and enthusiasm with proven experience in processing and preserving Scottish Soft Fruit. With highly qualified and experienced product development staff, and a chairman with more than 30 years of fruit industry experience we can serve your needs with care and complete confidence.

From our base just above Blairgowrie we are the closest possible link between the market place and the fruit grown in the field.

This enables us to offer a new and unique level of professionalism to high quality, soft fruit production in Scotland, and to the products we produce.

WHAT WE DO

We recognise that every customer has different needs. As a smaller, more specific business, we can tailor our fruit products and production to suit your particular requirements.

The special taste of raspberries is complemented by their particular fragility as a Scottish fruit. To bring this out as a unique consuming experience means:

		Care in growing and harvesting the fruit
		Careful expert handling of the fruit produced
		Continuing research
		Knowledge of the best possible ways of bringing taste, texture and flavour of our products to the market

HOW WE DO IT

Advantageously located in the centre of the fruit growing region allows TSSL to start from the core production, and work outwards to meet and satisfy our customers’ requirements. This, coupled with full traceability and ideal growing conditions, ensures that we can sustain the highest standard of quality and safety throughout our product range.

Due to a perfect balance between sugar and acid content, our products offer a unique and novel taste, and our well-proven processing methods consistently retain the full Scottish flavour, colour and texture.

We are the only remaining specialist processing company in the soft fruit sector in Scotland, and when necessary, are able to offer a wide range of frozen products from locally grown fruit and carefully selected import partners.

We are full partners with the Scottish Crop Research Institute in the development of the new variety raspberry breeding programme, which also links to other soft fruit R & D initiatives. This puts our growers at the cutting edge of development with regard to variety and flavour, and enables us to offer our clients more options, and the ability to tailor supplies to our customers’ specific requirements.

Our own processing and handling is subject to full H.A.C.C.P analysis and procedures, and covers all grades of fruit, ensuring a completely pure fruit product.

Our Product range covers all fruit grades and includes:

		Puree
		Juice
		Natural Flavours
		IQF

Our Product range covers all fruit grades and includes:

		Raspberry	Blackberry
		Strawberry	Gooseberry
		Blackcurrant	Redcurrant

HOW WE CAN HELP YOU

All of our products are tailored to each individual customer’s requirements.
This can be from:

The Field Stage:

We can supply named variety fruits and fruit from a particular period during the harvest.

The Processing Stage:

We can sieve fruit for puree to the customers' specifications, from 7mm down to virtually juice at 0.4mm.
We run full H.A.C.C.P analysis throughout our organisation and are open to any customers' further requirements to our existing programme.

The Packing Stage:

We can pack the products in whatever format best suits the customers needs, e.g. plastic pails, drums, cartons.

The Storage Stage:

All our fruit products are blast frozen in the nearby coldstore within 24 hours of harvest. Here they remain until call-off by the customer.

The Supply Stage:

We have very short lead times on our products.
We keep an “existing” stock for our customers,
just in case any of them run out before the new season.
Coupled with full traceability we offer complete
peace of mind when using our products and services.