ACYS Mendoza S.A. began olive oil producer on 1999. Nowadays, the company has a model production plant equiped whit its own designed state of the art technology, a commercial ofice that centralizes all business operation, and large warehouse for finished product. ACYS Mendoza’s company policy is to render top quality services in order to meet customer requirements, expectations and needs as if they were our own, and to maintain our reputation as market leader. The company is fully committed to maintaining and improving our quality of service. To this end, priority has been given to continual improvement so that we can cater to customer needs. To translate policy into practice, ACYS Mendoza pursues the following objectives: • Focus on customers and provide custom-made services so that having ACYS as their supplier results in a competitive advantage. • Offer top quality services and provide customers with all the necessary advisory assistance and means to achieve fluid communication and render an efficient service. • Regard quality as an obligation and responsibility of us all. • Implement and maintain a Quality Management System that complies with ISO 9001:2000 requirements and is monitored by a fully committed management team. • Encourage and involve our staff in a quest for a system that makes it possible to have qualified personnel rendering continually improving services. • Promote participatory management as a tool to achieve excellence in service quality, work procedures and work environment. • Establish a leading market position aimed at winning customers’ trust through quality programs. • Maintain and improve the Quality Management System by providing the necessary human and material resources so that the system is known, understood and applied at all company levels. ACYS Mendoza has its production facility in the department of Maipú, Province of Mendoza, Argentina. Irrigated with water from the Mendoza River, fed by snowmelt from the Andes Mountains, it is one of the best olive-growing areas worldwide. Maipú is 35 km from the thriving City of Mendoza, capital of the province, and 1100 km west of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country. José Mario Palchetti president