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Who we are

Sunflower Trade is one of the most innovative and professional agribusinesses in Switzerland. With his traditional and sound relationships with prominent producers covering the grain and oleaginous plants cultivation to its commercialization on the international market, in countries such as Italy, Switzerland, Libya, Egypt, West Africa and Middle East our company has consolidated its status over the years.

By bringing together the expertise of those currently leading the operations with those delivering products and services of the highest standards and manifesting his own passion for agriculture, the founders has created a group of people that emphasises ambition, motivation and respect.

Our concept

PERFORMANCE

For Sunflower Trade, performance means competitiveness- serving clients’ needs with products and services at the best standards and prices.
Through well-organized logistics, continuous improvement, productivity and coherence between the company’s vision and the business model, Sunflower Trade addresses its customers’ needs in a quick, efficient and personalized manner.

Partnership

Our partnerships imply respect, dedication and openness. The cooperation between our team and its partners brings together state-of-the-art expertise, flexibility and prompt responsiveness to market changes.

Respect, Responsibility, ESG

We show respect for the Earth through our responsible attitude towards our partners working the land. We have an intuitive relationship with the land, the crops and the environment in which it evolves, and strongly believe in their synergy. Our ambition is to have the most sustainable food supply chains in the world.

From small family farms to global shipping lanes, we work every day to implement new sustainable practices to reduce our impact on the planet and protect people. Sunflower Trade meets the quality standards of the products and services, as well as those of the client and partner relationships.

Through our history, we have seen agriculture be part of the solution to the world’s most urgent challenges. We know that we must address climate change and conserve water and forests, while meeting the rising demand for food. These are complex challenges, but we have overcome many obstacles to keep our food system resilient and we will continue. We feel a deep responsibility to protect the planet and its people, to ensure a cleaner, safer future for generations to come.

Our Priorities and goals

We’ve set priorities that account for the diverse environmental, social and economic impacts of our business. Still, we realize that no company can take on these challenges on its own. Through connection and collaboration with farmers, our customers, and global and local communities, we believe our food system will remain resilient. Our goals guide our efforts – ensuring we make progress in line with what the science says is needed to keep our planet healthy and people thriving.

Products and services

Crude and refined sunflower oil
Crude Soybean
Sunflower seeds
Sunflower meal
Wheat flour
Durum wheat
Blueberries
Eggs

Our partners collects and processes, throughout the year, grain and oilseeds adapting the pricing policy to the market’s permanent fluctuations, so that farmers are constantly faced with the optimal price for the traded products.

From farmers to process, each point of reception (both silos or reception bases) is equipped with modern laboratories that are fitted with the latest quality control tools, so that the products are analysed from all the aspects of the product quality evaluation system.

We operate on an integrated global basis to source, store, trade, process and distribute grains and oilseeds including wheat, corn, oilseeds as well as vegetable oils and meals. We have a broad global presence in grain origination, shipping and processing and we have developed significant expertise in handling identity preserved and differentiated products.

Our supply chain efficiency combined with origin and logistical flexibility enables us to deliver significant value to our customers around the world. We also work closely with our partners to offer a range of financial and hedging products.

Logistic services

Throughout our history we have developed deep expertise in efficiently transporting bulk commodities and finished products between continents and across countries.

The supply chain expertise and quality expectations we have developed to support own global operations we also offer to customers who seek to gain operational efficiency, manage volatility, reduce costs, and ship products safely. Whether transporting temperature-controlled freight over roads or shipping dry bulk or tanker freight across oceans, take advantage of our supply chain expertise.

storage facilities

Our partners own modern silos, each of them having grain quality control laboratories.
Every cell is equipped with product temperature control and monitoring systems.

transport - naval, railway, road.

The group can deliver the production using road, railway and naval transportation. All the silos we use are designed to permit the reception and delivery of goods by rail and road.

Clients

We work with the largest milling and bakery companies, being the supply chain’s first point and ensuring the delivery of the production according to the highest standards.

We feel to be responsible for giving our clients the best raw materials for bread, one of the most consumed products in the world. We are open and welcomes any client that shares the same business values and vision.