Apícola Danangie

Apícola Danangie is an Argentine family company from Concordia, Entre Ríos, that produces and exports honey. According to the website, the company started in 1991 with 400 hives producing eucalyptus honey and pollen. In 1995 it set up its current site with an extraction room, in 2005 it added a homogenising plant and laboratory, and in 2007 a new extraction hall handling 25,000 kg a day for 14,000 hives. A forestry division (since 1997) supplies wood for its own beekeeping equipment factory; the second generation has run the business since 2009.

The range includes orange blossom honey, forest honey, alfalfa honey, sunflower honey, eucalyptus honey, export drums, beekeeping equipment. The hives travel more than 700 km across the country following the bloom, so the company obtains honey of different botanical origins. Danangie exports Argentine honey of its own and from fellow beekeepers to the EU, the United States, Canada and Japan; every drum in a lot is traceable.

Why this matters to you: Apícola Danangie is a producer and exporter of drum honey rather than a retail brand, so its page is useful as a reference on Argentine honey of different botanical origins.