Shea nuts and butter
Sold on to processors and to cosmetics makers who finish the product locally.
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Our home market. Short distances, familiar rules, and buyers who order often rather than once a season.
West Africa is where we started and where we still do most of our business. Ghana, Togo, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Nigeria are all within a few days by road, and we know the crossings, the checkpoints and the people at both ends.
Buying here is different from exporting. Orders are smaller and more frequent. A customer may take twenty tonnes this month and forty the next, depending on what their own buyers are doing. They need someone who answers the phone and can move quickly, not someone who quotes a six week lead time.
It is also the market where being local counts for most. We are paid in cedis as often as dollars, we settle in ways that suit the customer, and when something goes wrong on the road we can send someone to look at it the same day.
Sold on to processors and to cosmetics makers who finish the product locally.
Maize, sorghum and beans moving between surplus and deficit areas across the region.
Palm and other edible oils, bought in drums and jerrycans by wholesalers.
Everyday lines for shops and distributors, ordered weekly rather than seasonally.
A customer in Lomé can call on Monday and have goods on their floor by Thursday. That is the whole advantage of trading close to home.
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Tell us what you need and how often. We will come back with a price, a date and a route.