Son Sanchez

Our Company

Son Sanchez, S.A. was founded in 1940, and has dedicated its energies to the production of high quality dried fruits and nuts, incorporating advanced technology into the manufacture process for its products.

The capacity for innovation and the ongoing search for new technological solutions has allowed Son Sanchez S.A. to develop new products and adapt the whole product range to the needs of the customer.

Our facilities and machinery are completely up-to-date and this allows Son Sanchez S.A. to guarantee both the product quality and the speed of service.

All the processes aim to ensure ongoing improvement, always keeping in mind unbeatable service for the customer.

History

The Son Sánchez, S.A. company was established in 1940. That year, the parents of the four brothers who today own the company, set up a small grocery business in the town of Orihuela.

During the nineteen fifties, this small business saw the incorporation of the owners' sons. There was a bakery next to the shop and in 1958 they started roasting peanuts and sunflower seeds for sale to the public. Such was the success among the clients that greater quantities were produced and more ovens were used since with just one demand could not be met.

Later, the sunflower seeds were packed in small plastic bags for sale at the price of one peseta, the first time such an innovation had been seen in Spain. These bags, which were originally sealed on a glass surface, using a candle flame. Soon after a small children's toy was added to the bag. The demand grew so fast that we soon had to employ more people to seal the bags and we then bought our first electric oven.

From that moment on, we came to understand the importance of the market for dried fruits and nuts and we went on to hone our structure, both in sales and in production.

Our sales depended, to a large extent, on the gifts we added to the bags and the competitions we held for children, in which the prize itself came to be more important than the quality of the product.

Between 1976 and 1978, we decided on a change in strategy as regards the gifts and we began to concentrate on the quality, design and marketing.

At that moment, in order to achieve greater quality in certain products and to reduce costs, we decided to grow chick-peas, sunflowers, popcorn maize and lupin seeds in Andalusia, on leased land which in some years exceeded 3000 hectares.

We started off gradually, since our financial resources were limited and with great skill and imagination, we created a quality brand, positioning ourselves in the leading establishments in the Spanish market, as well starting off on our first export activity for the European market.

Today Son Sanchez S.A. enjoys well-deserved prestige with presence in the leading grocery chains and has adopted advanced technology in the whole production process. This is one of the keys to our success, as are the human and technical resources which we pride ourselves on within the company.

Quality and Environment

The Board of Directors of Son Sanchez S.A. believe in backing quality and the environment and this been the result of taking on an Integrated Quality Management and Environmental System based on the UNE-EN ISO 9001: 2000 and UNE-EN ISO 14001:2004 norms. It is an opportunity to improve the product and service quality as offered to our customers, as well as the internal processes within our organisation which all go together to aim at the ongoing improvement in the quality of the same products and services.

The board of directors at Son Sanchez S.A. would like to take advantage of this opportunity to express their commitment to quality and the environment on a daily basis and remains at the disposal of all the members of our organisation in order to explain their role in the Integrated Quality Management and Environmental System and at the same time, encourage everyone to take an active part in said commitment.

Within the scope of the UNE-EN-ISO 14001:2004 regulations, the Board of Directors of Son Sanchez S.A. would like to express their commitment to the prevention of pollution and to the compliance of the applicable environmental legislation and regulations.

The fundamental aim as regards Quality of the whole team at Son Sanchez S.A. is the commitment to achieving the following:

• Encourage our suppliers to improve the services they provide us with, in the hope of joining forces to jointly satisfy the needs of our customers.
• Improve the efficiency and working methods of our internal working processes.
• Maximum reduction of the number of returns and complaints by our clients when our products and services do not meet their needs
• Increase our number of regular clients and gain the trust of potential customers in view of our range of products and services.

The environmental Objectives and Goals which the whole Son Sanchez S.A. team aim to acheive are:

• The rationalisation in the use of natural resources.
• The establishing of the management and monitoring of the appropriate use of waste and residue generated by our production processes.
• The Board of Directors is revising its policy, the Quality Goals and the Environmental Objectives and Aims to guarantee compliance and their proper implementation and adjustment and to make the current policy known to the public.