The Elmas brand belongs to Golden Foods Snacks SA.
Present in national and international store chains, the Golden Foods group produces, packages and distributes to the farthest horizons a wide variety of products, from different categories: peanuts, noble nuts and seeds, dehydrated fruits.
Passion, a vast previous experience in this field, a permanent concern for quality and taste were, and still are the values that our daily activities are based on.
1998
The Elmas brand is launched on the Romanian market of seeds, noble nuts and dehydrated fruits.
2018
The assortment of roasted and salted XXL striped seeds is launched in November.
2009
Golden Foods Snacks acquired the Elmas brand in October 2009.
2019
The new packaging from the Premio seed range is launched in October.
2011
Elmas changes its image - modern logo, packaging with design commensurate with the quality of the products, a change doubled by a new marketing and sales policy.
2019
Most Elmas products receive "Vegan" and "Gluten Free" certifications in August.
2013
Elmas launches in June the range of mixes in modern and ergonomic packaging.
2019
The new packaging design is launched in February for the assortments of oven-baked pistachio, roasted and salted cashew, oven-baked and salted almonds, oven-baked almonds, and oven-baked hazelnuts.
2015
The new metallic foil packaging for roasted peanuts, belonging to the Premio range, is launched.
2020
Baked Peanuts without salt 300g and Baked Peanuts with black pepper and salt 150g are launched, which satisfy desires and tastes at opposite poles.
2017
The Party Cups range is launched for roasted and salted peanuts, raw peanuts, baked and salted pistachios, raw pistachios, roasted and salted cashews, raw cashews and oven-baked hazelnuts.
2020
Following new delicious and energizing recipes, the Activ, Energie and Regal mixes will be launched in autumn 2020.
2018
A new assortment from the Premio range is launched in November: roasted and salted pumpkin kernel, which successfully accompanies the assortment of roasted and salted sunflower seed kernels.
2021
Elmas seeds benefit from a new packaging design, which emphasizes their quality.
2018
The year debuts with the new package for brown and golden raisins, as well as the expansion of the Party Cups range for dried fruit varieties.
2022
The XXL range is enriched with a new type of product: Roasted XXL Black Sunflower Seeds with and without salt.
2018
In August, the Practik range is launched, with weights of 250-500g for the assortments of nuts and peanuts, seeds and seed kernels.
2023
Elmas peanuts enjoy a new packaging design, and the fried peanuts now also include the salt-free version.
2023
Elmas seed packaging gets an extra color.
1998
The Elmas brand is launched on the Romanian market of seeds, noble nuts and dehydrated fruits.
2009
Golden Foods Snacks acquired the Elmas brand in October 2009.
2011
Elmas changes its image - modern logo, packaging with design commensurate with the quality of the products, a change doubled by a new marketing and sales policy.
2013
Elmas launches in June the range of mixes in modern and ergonomic packaging.
2015
The new metallic foil packaging for roasted peanuts, belonging to the Premio range, is launched.
2017
The Party Cups range is launched for roasted and salted peanuts, raw peanuts, baked and salted pistachios, raw pistachios, roasted and salted cashews, raw cashews and oven-baked hazelnuts.
2018
The year debuts with the new package for brown and golden raisins, as well as the expansion of the Party Cups range for dried fruit varieties.
2018
The assortment of roasted and salted XXL striped seeds is launched in November.
2018
In August, the Practik range is launched, with weights of 250-500g for the assortments of nuts and peanuts, seeds and seed kernels.
2018
A new assortment from the Premio range is launched in November: roasted and salted pumpkin kernel, which successfully accompanies the assortment of roasted and salted sunflower seed kernels.
2019
The new packaging from the Premio seed range is launched in October.
2019
Most Elmas products receive "Vegan" and "Gluten Free" certifications in August.
2019
The new packaging design is launched in February for the assortments of oven-baked pistachio, roasted and salted cashew, oven-baked and salted almonds, oven-baked almonds, and oven-baked hazelnuts.
2020
Baked Peanuts without salt 300g and Baked Peanuts with black pepper and salt 150g are launched, which satisfy desires and tastes at opposite poles.
2020
Following new delicious and energizing recipes, the Activ, Energie and Regal mixes will be launched in autumn 2020.
2021
Elmas seeds benefit from a new packaging design, which emphasizes their quality.
2022
The XXL range is enriched with a new type of product: Roasted XXL Black Sunflower Seeds with and without salt.
2023
Elmas peanuts enjoy a new packaging design, and the fried peanuts now also include the salt-free version.
2023
Elmas seed packaging gets an extra color.
Through professionalism, flexibility and constant quality, we would like to become our consumers, clients and suppliers’ first choice.
Elmas products are the good-natured ribbing: seeds, peanuts, noble nuts, and fruit. From Romania to faraway Australia, our consumers recognize and appreciate the quality and flavour of Elmas goods.
Maintaining a strong connection with our suppliers from all over the world enhances us the opportunity of offering the best quality at a very affordable price. To meet customers’ demands, especially the ones who have chosen the Elmas quality, we are closely paying attention to their expectations, needs, habits and change of taste.
Our first interest is the quality of the products and maintaining them as close as possible to the way nature makes them available to us.
In addition to raw seeds and nuts, we offer both raw seeds and nuts as well as a wide range of roasted or oven-baked ones. Salted or not, their flavor is different from the raw ones.
The roasting and oven-baked processes used by our specialists are the safest and most hygienic one.
Our dried fruit range contains dehydrated, not candied, fruit. Through the dehydration process, a large part of the beneficial substances is preserved - unlike many of the candied fruits, often improperly called dehydrated.
The quality and safety of the food start from the raw material, ingredients, through actively building long-term partnerships with traditional suppliers.
Golden Foods SNACKS SA is always a reliable partner that operates in accordance with the applicable legal requirements, supported by an Integrated Management System based on the requirements of the standards:
Such a comprehensive integrated system helps us to produce in conditions of quality and food safety, being friendly to the environment. From raw material suppliers to final customers, we generate positive influence in the community in which we operate by respecting the principles of social responsibility. We rely on our employees connected and involved in every stage of Golden Foods' activity.
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The quality and safety of the food start from the raw material, ingredients, through actively building long-term partnerships with traditional suppliers.
Long-term partnerships with traditional suppliers.
A very strict evaluation of partners, prior to the establishment of contracts, is done to continuously monitor the compliance with both the legal requirements and the conditions laid down in the certified standards.
All raw materials are analyzed at the reception according to our detailed specifications. Compliance with the requirements we impose and which are established with our partners before the first delivery is decisive for our uncompromising quality policy.
For consistent results up to the finished product, monitoring during the production process is important. We maintain the rigor of product montiorization on the entire production flow.
For all finished products we have developed our own detailed company standards.
The recipes of the finished products are developed based on research and analysis stages, in order to understand the expectations of our clients, but also to promote new trends and technologies.
Although it may seem simple, to bake or roast peanuts, seeds, fantasy must be put into practice.
In order to maintain the continuity of the quality standards, the manufacturing recipes are complied with in all the products, in all the orders, based on the SAP system, which ensures the uniqueness of the recipes, without permission of the arbitrary or accidental modification.
At any time, at any stage, the traceability system defined in SAP, provides clear, real-time information about each batch of raw material, the finished product packaging ingredient.
The clear, real-time information allows the intervention to correct any process deviations.
In order to confirm that what we set out to do, we obtained, periodically, the products are tested and verified in accredited external laboratories. Our checks are not limited only to the finished product but, based on a complex plan, we extend the verification area on the working environment, production and storage spaces, on the health of all employees who intervene, directly or indirectly, in the process. of production.
Packing the products in a protective atmosphere ensures the validity of the products for a long time. By reducing the level of oxygen in the bag, we manage to slow down the process of rancidity of fats in products, inhibiting the development of any life form (mold, infestation, etc.). We also verify that no foreign body ends up in the final product’s bag.
Besides the flow sorting steps, we added at the end, special devices that block and stop any product from going on to sale, in which, by accident a metal body might have gone in.
We provide customers with clear information about the product sold, through the packaging of the products. The granted data, founded on scientific proof, follows the legal provision. Therefore, we provide the buyer with the opportunity of knowingly choosing and consuming while he is guided by accurate information.
Our products benefit from the most efficient and modern types of packaging. Having a performant technology, we manage to protect and maintain all product qualities for a long period of time.
We keep up to date with the evolution of packaging materials and techniques and maintain a close relationship with our suppliers in the field.
In order for our partners to always be satisfied, we carry out endurance tests and optimizations for transport safety and easy handling.
We always choose the solution with the highest degree of recyclability. Loving and respecting nature persuades us to green.