Acomo N.V. Stock

Amsterdam Commodities N.V. (Acomo or the company) was founded in 1856. Acomo is an international group with its principal business in the trade and distribution of agricultural products. The Company's main trading subsidiaries are Catz International B.V. in Rotterdam (100%, spices and food raw materials) and RCMA Commodities Asia (Pte) Ltd., Singapore (43%, natural rubber). ACOMO also owns and operates a rubber plantation in Liberia. ACOMO is permanently involved in the intermediate stages of transportation, processing, storage, technical analysis, trade finance and distribution.

The Company's customers are both the producers in mainly tropical countries (plantations, farmers, cooperations) and industrial consumers of agricultural commodities (spice mills, industrial bakeries, tyre manufacturers).

Catz International B.V.

Catz International is a Dutch trading house with roots dating back to 1856. Catz joined ACOMO in 1982 and has become one of its most important company, trading and distributing a specialised range of over 100 food products, including spices, dessicated coconut, nuts, dried fruits and dehydrated vegetables.

Products

Spices

Spices include pepper, nutmeg, mace, cloves, cardamon, cassia, cinnamon, dried ginger, chillies, piment and turmeric.

Aromatic seeds

Aromatic seeds include celery, coriander, fennel, caraway, cumin, mustard, poppy and sesame.

Herbs

Herbs include oregano, thyme, rosemarin, basil, medical herbs and laure leaves.

Nuts & kernels

Nuts & kernels include almonds, apricot kernels, brasil-nuts, cashew kernels, hazelnuts, pecan nuts, peach kernels, pistachio nuts, walnuts, peanuts, pinetree kernels and macadamia nuts.

Tropical produce

Tropical produce include coconut chips, desiccated coconut and coconut milk powder.

Dehydrated vegetables

Dehydrated vegetables include paprika powder, garlic powder, garlic granules and onion powder.

Dried fruits

Dried fruits include apples, apricots, currants, dates, mixed fruit, raisins, peaches, pears and prunes.

RCMA Commodities Asia

RCMA Commodities Asia in Singapore is the joint venture between L. Wurfbain & Co. B.V. (1897-Zaandam, the Netherlands) and the Singapore rubber trader TongTeik (Pte) Ltd. Merged in 1998, the company specialises in around the clock marketing and distribution of natural rubber, latex and synthetic rubber. RCMA services its customers worldwide with offices in Singapore, Zaandam (The Netherlands), Hamburg (Germany) and Norfolk (USA). Acomo holds a 43% participation in RCMA Commodities Asia, together with Singapore Tong Teik (43%) and Nordmann Rasmann Chemicals Gmbh (14%).

Products

Technical specified rubber (TSR)

Latex: low ammonia, pre-vulcanized, creamed Synthetic rubbers like Butyl and Sbr rubbers

Main customers

Rubber is a technical commodity and there are many different specifications and origins. Customers include all the large tyre manufacturers and also serve many other industrial rubber consumers in the pharmaceutical industry, shoe industry, rubber foam industry (mattresses), tape and dipped rubber products (gloves, balloons).

Salala Rubber Corp.

Salala Rubber Corporation is a rubber plantation located in the centre of the Liberian rubber belt, not very distant from Monrovia. After having obtained concession rights on 8,500 ha of virgin land in 1961, Amsterdam Rubber developed a successful rubber plantation covering 2,600 ha representing a normalized annual dry rubber production capacity of 3,500 tons.