Our founders set one rule. We still follow it:
- Products
- Brands
AlambraCyprus
ALO LOCOSpain
Casa LombardiItaly
ChovíSpain
FAGEGreece
FriasSpain
GrecoGreece
Greek Family FarmGreece
Krokos KozanisGreece
LuxlaitLuxembourg
MareviaSpain
Marie MorinFrance
MJ Dairies
Old AmsterdamNetherlands
PalaciosSpain
Passion de los AndesArgentina
Paysan Breton & Madame LoïkFrance
Pinsa RusticanaItaly
Quesos El PastorSpain
Sud'n'SolFrance
Ta TungSpain
TapitaSwitzerland
TaxasGreece
- Products
- Brands
- AlambraCyprus
- ALO LOCOSpain
- Casa LombardiItaly
- ChovíSpain
- FAGEGreece
- FriasSpain
- GrecoGreece
- Greek Family FarmGreece
- Krokos KozanisGreece
- LuxlaitLuxembourg
- MareviaSpain
- Marie MorinFrance
- MJ Dairies
- Old AmsterdamNetherlands
- PalaciosSpain
- Passion de los AndesArgentina
- Paysan Breton & Madame LoïkFrance
- Pinsa RusticanaItaly
- Quesos El PastorSpain
- Sud'n'SolFrance
- Ta TungSpain
- TapitaSwitzerland
- TaxasGreece
A family-owned food importer since 1986
Nectra Food SA has brought specialty food into Switzerland since 1986 and is now one of the country’s leading importers. We’re still a family business, based in the canton of Vaud. We import food and drink brands from Europe and beyond, many of them chilled, and supply Swiss retailers, wholesalers and kitchens. New brands keep joining.
Nectra Food at a glance
- Founded
- 1986
- Ownership
- Family-owned
- Office
- Rue de la Mèbre 7, 1033 Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne (VD)
- Warehouse
- Etoy (VD), temperature-controlled, about 90% solar-powered
- Certifications
- ISO 22000, ISO 14001, Bio Suisse
- Range
- Dairy and cheese, Mediterranean and Asian specialties, plant-based, desserts, bakery and drinks; fresh, chilled and shelf-stable
- Customers
- Retailers including Coop, Migros, Manor, Aligro and Denner; wholesalers; restaurants, hotels, caterers and canteens
- Company number
- CHE-101.455.875
Products that earn their place
We watch what Swiss shoppers and chefs ask for, and what’s taking off elsewhere in Europe. Then we choose. A product makes our range when it tastes great and carries a label we’re proud to stand behind: a clear origin, honest ingredients and no additives it doesn’t need.
Producers we choose with care
We’re the exclusive Swiss importer for every producer we work with, so we don’t take on just anyone. We look for proven exporters with high production standards, sound finances and solid ethics, and the flexibility to adapt deliveries and packaging for Switzerland.
Once a brand is with us, we stay close. We visit often and talk constantly, so we hear about new products early, and we develop products with our suppliers for Swiss tastes. On top of that, we handle the whole Swiss side: customs in our name, Swiss labels in French, German and Italian, chilled storage and the pitch to retail buyers.
Who we supply
Our customers include Switzerland’s major retailers: Coop, Migros, Manor, Aligro and Denner. Many of them have worked with us for years.
In Greek yogurt, we’re the only major distributor to Swiss retail. We import FAGE, the only Greek yogurt brand widely available across Switzerland.
Beyond the supermarket shelf, we supply wholesalers and the food service trade: restaurants, hotels, caterers and canteens all over Switzerland, often in the larger formats professional kitchens need.
Stored in Etoy, delivered nationwide
Our warehouse sits in Etoy, on the A1 motorway between Lausanne and Geneva. It’s temperature-controlled and certified ISO 22000, ISO 14001 and Bio Suisse. It also runs mostly on sunshine: solar panels cover the entire roof and supply about 90% of our energy.
From Etoy, Switzerland’s largest transport groups take our products anywhere in the country.
A listing is where our work starts
We run tastings in shops with our suppliers, so shoppers get to try the products and we hear what they think. We also visit stores to brief managers, department heads and sales staff, so they can talk about our products with confidence.