Food manufacturer and restaurant group scaling operations across Spain
Flax & Kale operates a vertically integrated food business—manufacturing, R&D, and direct-to-consumer restaurants—across three Spanish regions. The tech stack is heavy on SAP (Business One + HANA) and Microsoft enterprise tools, with active migration work underway on their ERP. Hiring is accelerating across ops and engineering roles, while pain points cluster around inventory variance, cost control, and HR scaling—typical friction points for a fast-growing manufacturing business moving from craft to systems.
Flax & Kale is a food and beverage group founded in 1979, based in Barcelona with restaurants in Lleida, Barcelona, and Madrid, a central commissary kitchen in Bell-lloc d'Urgell (over 6,500m²), and dedicated R&D facilities. The company manufactures its own products—fermented beverages and prepared foods—while operating eight restaurant locations. With 300+ employees, the business operates a complete value chain from product development through retail. Current focus areas include new product launches (fermented beverages, flavor innovation), local marketing activations, and operational efficiency improvements across inventory and labor cost management.
Flax & Kale uses SAP Business One and SAP HANA for ERP, Power BI for reporting, WMS and MES for manufacturing operations, Salesforce for CRM, and Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint). They are actively migrating and customizing their SAP Business One HANA infrastructure.
Current projects include fermented beverage and new flavor development, SAP Business One HANA migration and customization, event organization and local promotions, and cost reduction initiatives tied to inventory control and staff ratio management.
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