Everything about Rungis is big. Its 234-hectare site is comfortably larger than the Principality of Monaco. In 2018, it employed 12,000 people and supported a further 102,000 jobs throughout France, generating an annual turnover of €9 billion – 0.33 per cent of France’s total GDP.2 Its eight fruit and vegetable halls provide a total of 3.7 kilometres of linear selling space, shifting 1.2 million tonnes of fruit and veg a year – around half of Parisians’ five a day. Delivering all this produce generates 1.5 million vehicle journeys every week.
