Sam Mills (company)

Sam Mills
Private company
Industry food
Founded 1994
Headquarters Satu Mare, Romania
Key people
 Ioan Bercean (CEO)
Products pastas, corn oil, corn and wheat flour
Revenue € 60 million (2008)
Number of employees
 150 (2009)
Website www.sammills.eu

Sam Mills is a major Romanian and European food company founded in 1994 in Satu Mare, Romania, and is specialised in the processing of grains, especially corn and wheat, producing bakery products, vegetable oil and pastas.[1] The company is structured into three branches including Sam Mills (the mill), Arpis (pasta and vegetable oil distribution) and Sam Trade (with five subsidiaries).

It controls Sam Mills (flour, pasta and vegetable oil producer), Arpis (distribution), Sam Trade (export company), Sam Gida (Turkey and CIS), Sam Trade UK (UK), Sam Trade DE (Germany) and Sam Mills LLC (United States).

Sam Mills produces several kinds of pasta under the Arpis and Pasta d'Oro brands and is one of Romania's leading pasta makers, with 40% of the Romanian market in corn pastas.[2][3] Sam Mills produces around 2,400 tonnes of dried pasta monthly in around 30 shapes and sizes.[3][4] It is also a leading corn flour, pasta sauce and corn oil producer, distributor and seller in Romania.

The most important branch of the group is Arpis one of the largest food distribution companies in Romania and the largest corn related company in the country with a market share of around 40%.[2] It was founded in 1994 and it is based in Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County. The exports and foreign trade branch called Sam Trade was founded in 2007 and it is based in Bucharest.[5] The company opened its first international office in 2006 at Istanbul, Turkey followed in 2008 by three other locations in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Rastatt, Germany and Boynton Beach, Florida, United States.[6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Industrie" (in Romanian). Sam Mills. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  2. 1 2 "Vom dezvolta segmentul pastelor si distributia pe Bucuresti" (in Romanian). Modern Buyer Magazine. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  3. 1 2 "ARPIS International" (in Romanian). Sam Mills. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  4. ↑ "Pasta d'Oro" (in Romanian). retetedepaste.ro. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  5. ↑ "Sam Trade" (in Romanian). Sam Mills. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  6. ↑ "Sam Gida" (in Romanian). Sam Mills. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  7. ↑ "Sam Trade UK" (in Romanian). Sam Mills. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  8. ↑ "Sam Trade DE" (in Romanian). Sam Mills. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  9. ↑ "Sam Mills USA" (in Romanian). Sam Mills. Retrieved 2009-08-23.

See also

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