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This page describes the overarching pricing components that make up prices in the TEIKEI Agora.
It does not differentiate by individual projects or product lines but instead shows the common logic behind different calculations. This makes it clear which pricing components appear across projects, how they are interconnected, and where they vary depending on the product area.
Prices in the TEIKEI Agora do not emerge only at the point of sale but along an entire journey.
They begin with production, move through processing, packaging, logistics, coordination, and safeguarding, and end in different final price levels for various roles within the network.
This page serves to first understand the pricing components in their general function and to organize them along the actual movement of the product.
Different product areas such as TEIKEI Fruit or TEIKEI Olive sometimes have different calculations and distribution logics.
Nevertheless, many price-relevant components appear in similar forms repeatedly. This is precisely why it makes sense to first describe the common building blocks before examining individual product areas in detail.
This approach helps to understand:
To keep price formation comprehensible, the pricing components are organized here along the actual path of the product.
At the beginning is the agricultural and artisanal foundation of the product.
This includes in particular:
This is where price formation begins. Without cultivation, care, harvesting, and product-related work at the origin, there would be no product that could be further processed, transported, and distributed.
You can find more details on this area on the page 1. Value creation on the farm.
After production, the steps necessary to ensure a product can be passed on in reliable quality follow.
This includes in particular:
These components are especially important where products are prepared, processed, bundled, and readied for the next stage of logistics in the packing house.
You can find more details on this area on the page 02 - Processing costs.
The next step involves preparing the product concretely for transport and handover.
This includes in particular:
Here, the harvested or processed product becomes a transportable and clearly assignable unit.
You can find more details on this area on the page 03 - Sustainable packaging.
Next come the transport and distribution steps between origin, collection structure, distribution warehouse, and target region.
This includes in particular:
Here, it becomes clear that price formation always reflects the actual movement of the product through the network.
You can find more details on this area on the page 04 - Transport costs.
Once the product leaves the pure transport level, further contributions arise for accompaniment, handover, and the supporting structures of the network.
This includes in particular:
These components make visible that supply is not only a logistical but also a social, organizational, and infrastructural process.
You can find more details on this area on the page 05 - Operational support.
As soon as products cross national borders or enter other currency zones, additional price-relevant components come into play.
This includes in particular:
These components ensure that price formation remains viable even under import conditions, duties, and exchange rates.
You can find more details on this area on the page 6. Customs duties and import charges.
To ensure the system functions not only in the short term but remains viable in the long term, stabilizing pricing components are added.
This includes in particular:
This level helps the network manage uncertainties, yield fluctuations, price movements, and failures.
You can find more details on this area on the page 7. Contingency & stability fund.
At the end of price formation are the components associated with the concrete processing of the sale.
This includes in particular:
These components are necessary to ensure the price is not only substantively but also formally, fiscally, and technically complete.
You can find more details on this area on the page 8. Processing, taxes, and payment transactions.
In addition to the individual pricing components, it is important to understand that there is not just one single final price.
Depending on the role within the network and the form of procurement, different final price levels emerge.
This level concerns the people who produce the products. Here, it becomes clear what share remains at the origin of the product and how the agricultural foundation is incorporated into price formation.
This price level refers to larger purchase quantities and other logistical frameworks. Here, volume, transport, packaging, and minimum quantities are the main focus.
This price level concerns connected structures that carry products forward within a shared economic context or integrate them into their own processes.
This price level concerns individuals or groups who organize order communities, pickup locations, or other local structures. Here, contributions related to handover, communication, planning, and local network maintenance become visible.
This price level concerns the people who are part of the community-supported supply through harvest shares. Here, the pricing components come together to form a viable, transparent, and predictable price for community-supported supply.
This price level concerns orders outside the harvest share logic. Here, additional components have a different or stronger impact, for example, for the shop, storage, payment processing, and spontaneous individual orders.
The pricing components form the individual building blocks of the calculation.
The final price levels show how these components are combined differently depending on role, distribution channel, and procurement method.
This makes it easier to understand:
This page first describes the pricing components in their overarching form.
On the project- or product-specific subpages, it can then be shown concretely:
This page thus forms the common foundation for all subsequent differentiations.
The individual pricing components are explored in more detail on the following pages:
Price formation becomes more understandable when the same terms are used consistently in overviews, subpages, product examples, and visualizations.
This page creates precisely this common language.
This makes it possible to:
This creates a common foundation for the wiki, Agora, campaign communications, and later technical implementation in the system.
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Compiled by the TEIKEI editorial team with AI support (ChatGPT)
Created on March 30, 2026 · Last updated on October 11, 2026
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