Fruitful Office
Treat your team to regular fresh fruit deliveries that do good from Fruitful Office.
If you’re a green-minded biz, Fruitful Office’s impactful fruit baskets will align with your values. For starters, each one you order plants a fruit tree, thanks to a partnership with Ripple. This Malawi-based charity oversees the planting of guava and papaya trees as well as quick-growing varieties for firewood.
Fruitful Office are all about sourcing fruit locally in the UK and western European grower countries too. So none of the fruit they provide has arrived via air freight, reaching your basket by less carbon-intensive methods instead. And they also keep fruit out of the food waste bin by giving away surplus stock to local charities.
On to the important question – what’s inside each Fruitful Office basket? Their team puts together a selection of hand-held (aka easy-to-eat) fruit. This can be a seasonal mix featuring grapes, bananas and mixed apples with three to four in-season fruits. Or an essentials mix of bananas and mixed apples with clementines, pears, peaches and nectarines, depending on the season.
When delivery day rolls around, your Fruitful Office driver drops your fruit basket directly in your office and takes away empty baskets for re-use. There’s zero packaging waste.
Remote team? They can come to your team at home too. Pick from weekly, bi-weekly or monthly deliveries.
Fruitful Office was founded in 2005 by Vasco de Castro and Daniel Ernst, two friends who left their jobs in the city to get into the world of fresh fruit.
Why the career change? It all comes back to a belief that still motivates them today: every office should have fresh fruit. Not only as it’s great for health and wellbeing, but also because it keeps teams motivated and improves productivity. So, having a basket in the office is a win for everyone.
Starting out as a two-man band, Vasco and Daniel became the UK’s original workplace fruit supplier. Today they operate in five countries and even managed to keep afloat during the pandemic – when offices everywhere were closing their doors – by adapting to offer a smaller “work from home” basket.
Founded By
Daniel Ernst and Vasco de Castro