Get to know
about our background

The Bech family
reforms the farmhouse
that was in ruins.
Gerard Bech’s great-grandfather starts to fix it up.

  1780  

  1971  

We start to produce
and sell apples from
our own orchards
The Bech family opens
Can Bech
its restaurant in the
village of Fontanilles
(Baix Empordà - Costa Brava)

  1981  

  1983  

We start producing
fig preserves in small
glass jars to sell to nearby customers.
Thanks to the success of the figs
we began to package them in a larger
format for the hotel sector and
sell them throughout Spain

  1992  

 
 

  1995  

We build a
new workshop
to produce the
figs under the
family farmhouse.
Generational transfer
Gerard Bech takes over the
family business, replacing
Santi Bech and Montse Crosa.

  2003  

 

  2004  

Jam production is started
with the aim
of expanding the product offer
and opening up
new horizons
The GBech 4A GAMA
brand appears,
focused on the production of
pre-prepared convenience
meat products for foodservice

  2006  

  2007  

We open a new workshop
exclusively operated to produce roast vegetables
The exports begin
Can Bech products reach
the international markets.

  2008  

 

  2011  

Just For Cheese arrives
A new product concep:
line of signature pairings
especially created to
accompany cheeses.
We enter North America,
with this new market
we are now present
in 27 countries

  2012  

  2012  

Best Pack Award
Alimentaria 2012
for the packaging in a triangular
format of Just For Cheese.
The Girona Seal
of Excellence
(Girona Excel·lent)
achieved with the figs in syrup and
the pairings for Just For Cheese cheeses.

  2016  

We inaugurate a new production plant
and a logistics warehouse. With these two centres, along with the existing ones, we now have over 5.000m2.

  2017  

Business growth award
through exportation awarded by the Catalonia Gourmet Cluster
We renew the IFS Food Certificate
(International Featured Standards) for our line of fruit preserves and the family of meat products is extended.

  2019  

  2019  

We win two Superior Taste Awards
for the signature pairings for the Just For Cheese cheeses and the GBech Pre-prepared convenience Moulard Duck.
Innofòrum Award
Can Bech Iberian Pork Cut
wins the InnoFòrum award for
“The most original taste”

  2019  

  2020  

Superior Taste Awards 2020
Just for Cheese renewed the award! In addition, our beef tail from our GBech 4aGama brand was also added to the award-winning list.
GREAT TASTE 2020
Our “Black grapes and almonds from Mallorca” Just for cheese pairing receives a GREAT TASTE award!

  2020  

L'empordà, Costa Brava

navel of the world

Dalí, Duchamp, Capote, Ava Gardner, Chagall, Masson, Carmen Amaya, Ferran Adrià... are the names of many of the famous celebrities who, at some time, were captivated by the magic of l'Empordà, many staying here forever.

Poets, painters, musicians, architects, chefs ... and thousands of people from around the world have adored its landscapes, its sea, its cuisine and its people.
Poets, painters, musicians, architects, chefs ... and thousands of people from around the world have adored its landscapes, its sea, its cuisine and its people.

Acknowledgements

and certificates

All effort is rewarded. Maybe that is why our products have obtained some of the most prestigious national and international seals and acknowledgements.

We have also been acknowledged by renowned chefs like Joan Roca (El Celler de Can Roca ***, Girona), who has praised the organoleptic qualities of our most historic product, figs preserved in syrup.