Gourmet
The idea of Gourmet Food
was born at the beginning of the 1980s during one of Fredrik Svanberg's trips
to Asia. There were a lot of exotic dishes available that still hadn't been
discovered in Sweden; amongst other things, a large amount of tiger prawns was
shipped over in cooperation with the then leading restaurant wholesale food
distributor Arvid Nordqvist. Among the first customers were Japanese taverns in
the Stockholm area which later became purely sushi restaurants.
During the 1980s, Gourmet Food had just a
handful of employees; the company worked with many top-quality restaurants in
order to together both create new trends and discover new needs. When the Asian
trend, with wok restaurants at the forefront, broke through at the beginning of
the 1990s, Gourmet Food stood ready with the products that were in demand.
Previously there had many import companies that traded with European meat,
among others. At around the same time as Sweden joined the EU, Gourmet Food was
among the first wholesale food distributors to import for themselves and sell
directly to the end customer.
Gourmet Food has continued to introduce many
leading products to the Swedish food industry over the years. The list
continues to grow every day as a result of our curiosity and hunt for new and
exciting tastes.