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Delivering African Agricultural Commodities To The World

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Who we are

About Us

We are young, driven and relationship orientated professionals who work tirelessly to promote global access to local farmers. Our global footprint and deep-rooted  presence in Nigeria enables us to support our local supply network whilst delivering a world class service to international clients. Our daily goal is to enhance the perception of doing business and sourcing food ingredients in Africa and to delivery consistent quality in a timely fashio.

Quality

We aim to trade only the highest quality products and are continuously striving to improve our standards to drive international competitiveness

Specialists

We are specialist, global traders in niche commodities, their markets, and seasons.

Fair Pricing

We aim to source quality commodities at highly competitive, but fair prices in order to pass maximum value to our customers and trading partners

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Our Goods

Products

Dry Ginger

Harvest Season: November to Jan (Available all year)

Hibiscus

Harvest Season: November to Jan (Available all year)

Turmeric

Harvest Season: December to Jan (Available all year)

Arabic Gum

Harvest Season: November to Jan (Available all year)

Bird Eye Chili

Harvest Season: January to Dec (Available all year)

Peanuts

Harvest Season: March to Aug (Available all year)

Who we are

Our Team

Lanre Awojoodu

Lanre Awojoodu has over 10 years experience in a variety of trading and consulting roles in Trading…
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Florian Aigrain

Florian is CEO of the Acutronic Group, an industrial technology company based in the US and Switzerland….
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Cobus De Ridder

Prior to joining Trading Tons, Cobus (of South African nationality) operated and consulted in a number of African markets and across a
broad field of industries….

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Tunde Oloruntoba

Tunde is Nigerian and has over 20 years’ experience working in the Nigerian commodity industry…
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Charles Taylor

Charles is on our board and has extensive experience in commodity contracting and sales, corporate partnership development….
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Erik De Ridder

Erik T de Ridder is an entrepreneur and activist at large. Erik has worked with FPXA Holdings AG for several years, on projects across Africa…
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Head Office

Nigerian Office

  • 87 Allen Avenue, Ikeja Lagos State, Nigeria.
  • +234 8146132690 (8am to 5pm Weekdays)

Lanre Awojoodu

Founder, CEO

Lanre Awojoodu has over 10 years experience in a variety of trading and consulting roles in Trading, Logistics and FMCG of Nigerian companies. Before founding Trading Tons, he was responsible for leading a cross-functional team in SAP project implementation specializing in Business One and Material Management. His notable implementation projects include companies like GZI Industries (a can manufacturing company with a capacity of 1.3billion cans yearly), Cadbury Nigeria, Girvanas Ltd (nationwide distributor and importer of consumer products such as Luna milk, tin tomatoes), Clarion Bonded Terminal, Marine Platforms (Oil and Gas Servicing), Nagode Group (Importers of Ethanol, Solvents, Cosmetic chemicals into Nigeria), Elektrint Nigeria Ltd (Construction), Petrolog Group (Oil and Gas Servicing) Lanre began his career in sales as a Diebold ATM distributor at Hammond Financials. His entrepreneurial spirit has always been evident from his undergraduate days at the university, were he owned a chicken and chips joint with four employees and also extended the business at Lagos NYSC camp as a corper. As an undergraduate, he also owned and successfully managed a pig farming for 2 years. Outside of work, Lanre is an avid reader and passionate about Africa and encouraging entrepreneurship across various sectors. He believes entrepreneurship is a major driver of sustainable change and growth across the continent. In 2004, he graduated B.Sc. Accounting from the University of Lagos, with an MBA from the Obafemi Awolowo University in 2007. Lanre is an SAP certified consultant.

Florian Aigrain

Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board

Florian is CEO of the Acutronic Group, an industrial technology company based in the US and Switzerland. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he worked in investment banking in New York and fixed-income in London. Following that, Florian founded FPXA Holdings AG, an investment company providing innovative financial solutions to start-ups, with a number of projects in emerging African markets. Florian has lived and worked in the US, Europe, and South Africa. He graduated with Distinction from the University of Virginia, with a degree in Economics and Foreign Affairs. He speaks English and French fluently (and conversational German). Florian serves as the lead investor and Chairman of Trading Tons AG.

Cobus De Ridder

Chief Operating Officer

Prior to joining Trading Tons, Cobus (of South African nationality) operated and consulted in a number of African markets and across a broad field of industries. Cobus holds a degree in Managerial Sciences from the University of Stellenbosch. Having majored in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Cobus’s strength lies in building new and innovative ways for Trading Tons to deliver value to our customers. As COO, Cobus’s role in Trading Tons principally revolves around the development, design and implementation of operational systems as well as to maximise organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

Tunde Oloruntoba

Head Operations

Tunde is Nigerian and has over 20 years’ experience working in the Nigerian commodity industry. He started has a quality inspector officer at EDF and later worked as a warehouse manager at Timsol Nigeria Ltd. His various trading roles over the years include employing sourcing strategies, building sourcing networks, finalizing orders, tracking and reporting key functional metrics to improve effectiveness, collaborate with key persons to ensure clarity of specifications. He is a graduate of Lagos State University and attended Saint Augustine College, Kogi State.

Chas Taylor

Advisor/ Board Member

Charles is on our board and has extensive experience in commodity contracting and sales, corporate partnership development, and guiding the company’s expansion into new markets. He has a background in finance, real estate, agriculture, and natural resource development. He is Director at Earth Partners, He is also on the board of Drylands Natural Resource Centre, an agro-forestry and environmental organization in Kenya. Charles previously consulted for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation within their agricultural development group, where he worked on input supply chain development and financing issues. Charles has previously worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York and McKinsey & Company. Chas is American, a graduate of the University of Virginia, he tries to spend as much time as possible on his farm in Rapidan, Virginia. Chas effectively promotes Trading Tons in the American markets.

Erik De Ridder

Advisor/ Board Member

Erik T de Ridder is an entrepreneur and activist at large. Erik has worked with FPXA Holdings AG for several years, on projects across Africa, and is co-CEO of Strategic Yield Investment Holding, South Africa. An alumnus of the South Africa-Washington International Programme, a co-founder of the African Student Leaders’ Summit 2010 and the BlueBuck Network, an international student coalition that formed part of civic society activities at the United Nations COP17. He is the co-founder of InkuluFreeHeid, a non-partisan South African political outreach group targeted at youth. As part of his work with FPXA Holdings, he has extensive due diligence, sourcing, and business review experience. He is a South African citizen and speaks fluent English and Afrikaans. He graduated with First Class Honours from of the University of Cape Town, with a degree in Engineering and Economics. He also has an MBA from University of Cambridge. Erik advises Trading Tons on tradingstrategies, co-operate governance.