Olive Oil and Olive Oil Products

My wife and I have advertised our farm for sale but are not expecting to sell it soon. Local buyers for a working farm are extremely rare and most immigrants move to Portugal to retire.

In the meantime I continue to produce increasing quantities of olive oil each harvest (plus nuts in the future) so I am looking to also increase my customer base. I currently offer my own Extra Virgin Olive Oil; a Leather Dressing (cleaner and polish) and three soaps, two scented with the Essential Oils Lavender and Lemon plus an unscented one made only from saponified EVOO.

I am prepared to send a package for resale to TFF members in the UK or Ireland on a no risk basis of members paying me when they have sold sufficient to cover the cost. I am sure no member would attempt to rob me by not paying. I will provide a pro-forma invoice with the package and issue a tax invoice/receipt after payment. At present VAT is not added for registered businesses which are reselling.

Everything is properly packaged and labelled, with the EVOO in 500ml tins; the Leather Dressing in 100ml tubs and the soaps in 50g bars. The prices are low enough to permit a high mark up by the reseller.

Anyone interested in reselling through their farm shop or other outlet please email me at [email protected] for full details. Members in RoI please inform me of that so I can quote prices in Euros instead of Sterling. I presently have no outlets in Ireland.

To bring this ad to their attention I have tagged some members that I noticed mentioned in posts they had a shop, but I fully understand if they are not interested in the offer.

@Wheatonrotty @Devil's advocate @einstein @danbain

 

[dairyrow]

are you just looking for farm shops? or can it go more on the internet or are you doing that already. Have you got a website

 

[Old McDonald]

My initial approach for more customers is the post above. The response to that will determine whether I will be looking for more resellers.

I am also having a website made where I will be mainly aiming to sell the Leather Dressing. This may take a few weeks, depending on the workload of the person making it for me - the one who made the site for the sale of our property. I contacted him yesterday to set up a draft of the site.

 

[TripleSix]

@Old Tip

 

[Old Tip]

Thanks @TripleSix
We may be interested in the oil @Old McDonald but do you do it in bigger containers ?

 

[Old McDonald]

@Old Tip, I use the tins for various reasons. One broken bottle (glass or plastic) in transport would ruin a whole package and possibly other people's too, leading to a damages claim. Tins are light proof, meaning they do not have to be stored in the dark, although they still need to be kept away from heat sources such as cooking appliances and sun. Heat and light degrade oil very quickly.

The tins are available in one and three litre sizes, but I have labels cut to suit the 500mls size. I could have labels printed for other sizes, but I do not know whether I could cover the "foreign" printing already on the tins. That might not be important. Doing our research a couple of years ago we found 500mls is a very common size for EVOO, especially in the UK. 750mls is also common. People there do not slosh it on everything in the way it is used where olives are grown. Additionally, pouring small amounts from a three litre tin cannot be easy. 500mls tins are a one handed job.

Edit: Probably the most important point, and which I forgot to make, high quality oils are not normally sold in large containers.

 

[Old Tip]

@Old Tip, I use the tins for various reasons. One broken bottle (glass or plastic) in transport would ruin a whole package and possibly other people's too, leading to a damages claim. Tins are light proof, meaning they do not have to be stored in the dark, although they still need to be kept away from heat sources such as cooking appliances and sun. Heat and light degrade oil very quickly.

The tins are available in one and three litre sizes, but I have labels cut to suit the 500mls size. I could have labels printed for other sizes, but I do not know whether I could cover the "foreign" printing already on the tins. That might not be important. Doing our research a couple of years ago we found 500mls is a very common size for EVOO, especially in the UK. 750mls is also common. People there do not slosh it on everything in the way it is used where olives are grown. Additionally, pouring small amounts from a three litre tin cannot be easy. 500mls tins are a one handed job.

Edit: Probably the most important point, and which I forgot to make, high quality oils are not normally sold in large containers.

Just asking as we make soap so buy in a fair bit of oil direct from farms usually in 20 litre containers, can you send me a pm

 

[Old McDonald]

I prefer to use email so I have everythiing of importance in one place. My address is in the OP.

I also make saponified products and sell them in the UK. That puts us in "opposition" so to speak. I only sell EVOO, and that is very expensive to buy in for soapmaking. I produce it so can afford to use it.

Happy to discuss anything further with you though if you let me know your queries via email.