ESSA
Imports preserved vegetables, fruit and legumes and makes sauces and preserves for Czech retail chains and wholesalers
About ESSA
ESSA, spol. s r.o. is a Czech food company founded in 1990 as a trading firm that imported preserved vegetables, fruit, rice and legumes. Through its subsidiary NOVA a.s., it produces sterilised vegetables and fruit in glass, jams, ketchups, mustard, tomato paste and pasta sauces. Its products are imported from about 17 countries under the ESSA brand and under customers' private labels.
Customers include international and Czech retail chains, private wholesalers, bakeries, delicatessens and food producers. The group runs its own transport division, ESSA-TRANS, with 16 trucks, and subsidiaries ESSA-PACK (packaged rice, legumes, dried fruit and spices, founded 2000) and ESSA Slovakia (sales and distribution, founded 2002). A separate division, which began as the exclusive Czech representative of Austrian firm ALMI, supplies spices and technology to the meat industry.
The headquarters and dispatch warehouse are in České Budějovice, with further sites in Dolní Újezd u Litomyšle, Prague and Sobotka, where NOVA's production plant is located. The website lists ESSA-branded products in Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The careers page refers to one position filled under an ESF-co-financed traineeship project for people under 30 in South Bohemia.
Product: Imported and own-brand preserved vegetables, fruit, rice, legumes and spices, plus glass-jar sterilised vegetables, jams, ketchup, mustard and tomato paste produced by NOVA a.s.
Jobs at ESSA
Leadership
- Karolína Velachová · Jednatel (Managing director)Source: business register
- Petr Vondrka · ProkuraSource: business register
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