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We are
sad to announce that as of 1st September 2007, Diederik has decided to leave us.
We wish him the very best and hope that he finds great success in his new
ventures.
Mrs Nguyen Thi Yen will now run our Vietnamese office with great panache, ably
supported by Ly Vao Luan
In recent years the company
has broadened its activities from purely day to day brokerage into various forms
of financial engineering - arranging financing for cashew toll-shelling operations,
obtaining pre-financing for imports of raw cashew nuts etc.
The Brazilian office administers Exportadora
Florenzano Ltda - the only Brazil nut factory in Brazil that guarantees aflatoxin
on arrival at final port of destination and is certified organic by IMO.
With the office in Rotterdam, the company is now able to provide
logistical support to European and North American manufacturers wishing to make
direct importations of raw material from origin and to origin producers wishing
to make direct exportations to these markets.
The Rotterdam office also handles the peanut brokerage side of
the business, having negotiated exclusive agency contracts with a number of
major Chinese suppliers.
The Vietnamese office handles sales to our Middle Eastern and
Asian customers and provides logistical and sourcing support for the other Amberwood
Trading Ltd offices in a wide variety of products.
The responsibility for the other commodities is split between the Dutch and Brazilian
offices.
Products handled
are:
- Edible nuts: cashews, brazils, groundnuts, hazelnuts,
almonds and pistachios.
- Spices: black and white pepper, cassia/cinnamon,
ginger, pimento (allspice), nutmegs and mace, turmeric, star anise, vanilla, paprika,
chillies. cumin seed
- Other products: rice, sugar, desiccated coconut,
frozen fruit, tonka beans, guarana, annatto seeds, onion, garlic, cumin, coriander,
caraway, sesame, sunflower kernels, pumpkinseed
Goods are available in bulk packing or under seller's brand name
or own label.
If you wish to discuss business opportunities in these markets
please call Jeremy Holt/Juliano Camara in Fortaleza
on +5585 3273 3444, Bert Noorland/Herman Driesens in Rotterdam
on +3110 265 3155.
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12th October - Finally some good news as new USDA peanut crop estimate shows a 1,7 mln ton crop.
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4th October - The market remains firm and with all sorts of problems ahead, we do not see prices coming down sharply in the very near future.
We received an extensive crop report from China and to summarize this report, total acreage was up by about 10% in comparison to last year however due to severe drought spells as well as torrential rains, yields are much lower than expected which, according to Chinese experts, will result in a total crop of about 13 to 14 mln ton which would be approximately 1 mln tons less than last year. With domestic consumption of kernels as well as groundnut oil still growing, it seems China may be a net importer rather than being a net exporter next year.
The September USDA crop forecast for the USA showed an expected crop of 1,6 mln tons with especially Texas and Oklahoma looking good. Since then nothing bad has occurred and optimists are hoping for a revised number in October to be in the range of 1.7 mln ton. With a carry-over of about 600,000 tons, total availability should be enough to cover domestic consumption. Still a lot of people seem to already worry already about next years crop since farmers are being offered a lot more alternatives these days which could lead to lower acreage thus lower production. Eventually some people fear that the USA may turn into a net importer as well. Although this may be the case, the actual situation is that the USA crop which was planted extremely late due to drought at time of plantings, seems to turn out ok. Please see more news for news on Argentina and Brazil.
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