Fresh Market 2026 is the 20th edition of the event. To mark the occasion, we are publishing a series called "20 Stories from the 20th Fresh Market," in which we look back at the exhibiting companies, brands, and projects that have contributed to the history of Fresh Market in previous years.
For a long time the Polish fresh produce market was built on manual labor in packhouses. Packing strawberries, grading apples, weighing vegetables — these were tasks handled by dozens of seasonal line workers, with huge labor demand concentrated in a few weeks each year. In 2009 the situation began changing faster than before. Labor costs were rising. Seasonal workforce availability was shrinking. Retailers were raising quality expectations. Suddenly automation stopped being an option and became a condition for competitiveness. Bosky was one of the firms leading that transformation in Poland from the start.
Bosky has been on the Polish market for more than 25 years, specializing in packing automation and product protection for shipping. The company highlights experience in four main industries: food, pharmaceutical, industrial, and intralogistics. Solutions include pallet wrappers, strappers, sealers, banders, and integrated systems where packing the product is combined with preparing the pallet for transport.
For a fresh-produce grower, Bosky is usually the first contact with "automated backstage." An apple orchard owner who spent decades packing apples into boxes by hand eventually faces a choice: either hire a bigger crew every season, or start a conversation with a company that will install an automatic line. That conversation in 2009, when Bosky appeared at Fresh Market, was far more realistic than ten years earlier — and today it's simply the standard.
What matters for the Polish fresh produce industry is that Bosky serves both sides of the scale: large automated retail-chain packhouses, and medium farms where the line must be flexible and handle several products on the same infrastructure. The company integrates solutions from many global manufacturers, choosing the right fit for each customer's use case.
From a Polish Fresh Market participant's perspective, a firm like Bosky is the backstage without which Polish fresh produce would not be competitive in Europe. Every automation step that removes 5–10 seasonal jobs also removes pressure on finding seasonal workforce during production peaks — one of the biggest operational challenges facing Polish orchardists and vegetable growers in recent years.
The 20th edition of Fresh Market is a good moment to remember that Polish fresh produce has not just changed in the field. It has also changed in the packing hall — quietly, across many years, with companies like Bosky supplying technical competence that simply didn't exist at national scale before.
