"Committed to freshness since the beginning. We have always been there for you - and will be in the future".

Gabriella Berno

Managing Director

Services

For us as your supplier of fresh fruits and vegetables, ready-to-cook as well as frozen products, your needs are the basis of our thinking and acting. In order to meet your wishes and quality requirements, we offer you the following services:

 

SELECTION Assortment guarantee as well as short-term availability of fruit and vegetable specialties.

EMERGENCY SERVICE Do you have an emergency? Are you missing any other product? We will step in for you and bring you everything you want in non-food products along with the fruit and vegetable delivery.

FRESH GUARANTEE Uncompromising freshness and quality thanks to closed cold chain.

ADVICE Personal assistance and advice on handling, storage and preparation of our products. We would like to invite you, your employees and your apprentices to visit our company and the farms of our producers.

ORDERING OPTIONS

 

You can reach us every day almost around the clock.
 

TELEPHONE CONSULTATION
+41 31 750 55 22
Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, 06.00 h - 12.00 h and 13.15 h - 17.00 h
Wed, 06.00 h - 12.00 h and 13.15 h - 16.00 h
Sat, 06.00 h - 11.00 h


CALL SUPPLIER
+41 31 750 55 22
Mon - Fri, 17.00 h - 24.00 h
Sat from 11.15 h - Sun 24.00 h

Fax 031 750 55 20
Mon - Sun, 06.00 h - 24.00 h


MAIL
info(at)berno.ch
Mon - Sun, 06.00 h - 24.00 h


ORDER POSSIBILITIES
for ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat products:

Online store
Access to all products around the clock

Orders until 3 p.m.
already delivered the next morning.

Orders until 10 a.m.
in the Bern area are delivered in the afternoon.


Delivery mode Bern area: 
Mon - Sat, 04.00 - 11.00 and 14.00 - 17.00

Delivery mode Fribourg, Neuchâtel, Biel, Solothurn, Burgdorf area:
Mon - Sat, 04.00 h - 12.00 h

Delivery mode Thun:
Mon, Wed, Fri, 05.30 h - 08.00 h

 

Certificates

Company

In the Seeland begins what should shine in the Mittelland

Our company BERNO AG is located in the beautiful Seeland, in the immediate vicinity of our suppliers, the producers. The proximity to these partners, who supply us with regional products, is just as important as the proximity to our customers from the Mittelland, for whom nine drivers are on the road every day. They supply the customers at any time with juicy fruits and crunchy vegetables and much more. The freshness of the products is guaranteed by the company's typically pronounced quality awareness as well as its flexibility.

The fact that we meet the guidelines of "Swiss Garantie" certifies the quality of the products. We, Gabriella Berno, Sara Niklaus-Ceroni and Romeo Ceroni, also attach great importance to a quick, fair and targeted processing, from order to delivery: "Customer proximity is important to us!" emphasize all three and, together with their motivated team, look forward to every personal contact.

Trucks appear in the new design.
Truck berno

BERNO vouches for quality

We have a simple quality standard for the products: Only the best is good enough! We, Gabriella Berno, Sara Niklaus-Ceroni and Romeo Ceroni, as well as our approximately 60 employees, uncompromisingly enforce this claim, accompanied by the greatest flexibility in order to always be able to respond to the individual wishes of their customers.

And this 24 hours a day and 6 days a week. Our assortment includes fresh fruits and vegetables as well as ready-to-cook, ready-to-eat and frozen products and much more. Simply everything the gourmet's heart desires. Our delivery area currently covers the central Mittelland.

Gabriella Berno, Sara Niklaus-Ceroni, Romeo Ceroni

Gabriella Berno, Sara Niklaus-Ceroni, Romeo Ceroni

In the family team everyone pitches in

History

50 years ago, Rinaldo Berno opened his own fruit and vegetable trading business in Bern. The former sole proprietorship developed into an impressive company with around 60 employees. What has remained until today: The BERNO promise of freshness and quality.

The founder: Rinaldo Berno with wife Maria

Rinaldo Berno in front of his first company truck

Romeo Ceroni, Gabriella Berno

Milestones

1939

Rinaldo Berno was born as a farmer's son in Abruzzo (I).

1957

Rinaldo Berno comes to Switzerland, to Bern; Berno becomes a Berner, so to speak. He works in the hospitality industry in the city (train station buffet).

1961

Marriage to Maria D'Eleuterio, a young woman from his native village. Rinaldo and Maria become parents of two children: daughter Gabriella and son Venanzio

1963

Rinaldo Berno moves to the fruit and vegetable trade as an employee, first at Mundwyler, later at Früchte und Gemüse AG

1973

Rinaldo Berno goes into business for himself. He opens the store in Bern on Metzgergasse, today's Rathausgasse.

1974

Rinaldo Berno moves his company to Muri. The business now has six employees and four trucks. His wife Maria runs a grocery store in Gümligen.

1985

Relocation of the company R. Berno to Kehrsatz

1991

Merger with the Etter company to form etter & berno AG and with company headquarters in Ried near Kerzers. Romeo Ceroni takes over the operational management of etter & berno AG

1999

Death of wife, mama and nonna Maria Berno

2006

Daughter Gabriella Berno and Romeo Ceroni become partners and together take over the management. Rinaldo Berno retires from the operational business

2013

The recipe for success at etter & berno AG: Fresh for 40 years. Sara Niklaus-Ceroni works in the company with

2014

Expansion production with new kitchen and showroom

2015

Sara Niklaus-Ceroni becomes a member of the Executive Board

2020

During the early days of Corona foodathome.ch - online store for vegan products established

2021

Expansion vegan products

2022

Efficiency increase in production with 2 new machines

2023

A step towards digitalization: Thanks to the new system conversion, BERNO is almost paperless and will offer an online store from spring. New name, new logo, new corporate identity - we are now called BERNO AG.