Delica (enterprise)

Delica AG, based in Birsfelden (near Basel), is a business enterprise of the M-Industry and belongs to the Swiss trading group Migros.

Its field of activities comprises the procurement, refinement, packaging and marketing of raw materials and commodities from around the world, with particular emphasis on coffee and non-perishable foods such as dried fruits and mushrooms, nuts and kernels, spices, as well as legumes.

The frozen poultry section and the GIFA warehouse were moved to the central distribution centre of Migros-Verteilbetrieb Neuendorf AG (MVN) in 1972 and 1974, respectively.

In November 2006, the packaging production was outsourced to the newly founded InnoPacking AG in Pratteln by means of a management buyout.

In October 2008, the FMC management agreed to a partial merger between Delica and its affiliated company Chocolat Frey, which took effect on 1 January 2009.

Since then, both companies have been run by one and the same management team, while the administration has been centralised to a large extent at the headquarters of Chocolat Frey in Buchs in the canton of Aargau.

Moreover, the Delizio coffee capsule system was launched internationally under the name of Cremesso [4] in September 2009, and is now sold in several countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.