What is behind the fair price of our cold-pressed oils?

The #mesicferovychcen campaign is running throughout November, aiming to make customers aware of the honesty of the sales prices for which you purchase Czech products from retailers. The main effort is to show that seemingly expensive Czech handmade products can never be compared in price with cheap imported or mass-produced goods. We also consider this to be really important, which is why we would like to show you what is behind one bottle of our cold-pressed oil.

Quality and freshness come first

In our family pressing plant, we approach work honestly. We have full control over the entire production process, from the selection and storage of seeds to the storage and shipment of finished products. We carefully follow our production procedures with an emphasis on the cleanliness of the operation, machines and production equipment. I personally stand behind the press and continuously check the temperature during pressing to ensure that our oils are truly of raw quality.We bottle the oils as fresh as possible, taking into account the time needed for natural sedimentation, which is the most gentle on the oils. We control the quality of the products and subject the oils and pomace to analysis in accredited laboratories. We have recently obtained certification for the production of organic quality oil.



So what is hidden in the price of our oil?

• Seeds for pressing, which we purchase only from verified Czech suppliers and pay fair prices for.
  
  
• The purchase price of the technologies used - a screw press, bottle filler and payments for energy associated with their operation.
  
  
• Quality packaging - dark glass bottles are the best for keeping the oil in good condition and are supplemented with special caps that ensure convenient pouring of the oil and at the same time help maintain its impeccable quality.
  
  
• Certification and official verification - to the aforementioned oil in organic quality, but also, for example, mandatory official verification of measuring instruments such as scales that we use to check the weight of seeds.
  
  
• Analytical analyses from an accredited laboratory that serve to monitor the quality of oils.
  
  
• Labels - their design and printing.
  
  
• Design and operation of the e-shop, including fees associated with electronic payments.
  
  
• Recycling fees that are related to the packaging material used and serve to ensure compliance with the obligation to take back and reuse packaging waste through the EKO-KOM integrated fulfillment system.
  
  
• Transport costs - whether it is the journey for seeds, the import of bottles, the transport of the shipment to the delivery point or participation in markets.
  
  
• Marketing - in which, however, we would need to invest more nowadays resources than we can afford.
  
  
• Cleaning and cleaning products – we are a food operation and everything has to be clean, whether it's a pressing plant or a warehouse. We use a floor scrubber to help us with cleaning, and we clean the press parts, fillers, and everything else by hand.
  
  
• Our time spent pressing, filling bottles, labeling them, packing them into packages, or selling them at the market.

• And many other, seemingly small, expenses for paper, toner, accounting, fees for places at the market, a stand...
  
  

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