Swaziland Citrus Sales Company Japan represents citrus growers in Swaziland and South Africa to provide an effective market presence inside Japan. Staff highly experienced in sales and marketing, distribution, logistics, and supply chain management form the organisation.
The company’s Japanese clients comprise leading Japanese importers and wholesalers as well as smaller, specialised firms.
Swaziland Citrus’ overseas clients include United Plantations Africa Ltd. and African Realty Trust Ltd., two of the most prominent citrus producers in Southern Africa, as well as Umlimi Ltd., a South African firm specialising in value chain management and financing for Southern African citrus growers and exporters.
Swaziland Citrus also offers the use of its infrastructure to other producers and exporters in Southern Africa or other parts of the world that wish to be represented in the world’s second-largest market. A long history of doing business with South African firms has given Swaziland Citrus a unique advantage.
We also work with Asiatrends in Denmark and its principal Jesper Schierbeck-Hansen to facilitate Japan contact to companies in Scandinavia. Mr. Schierbeck-Hansen’s website is in Danish only. A summary of his background is:
He holds an MBA from the University in Aarhus, Denmark.
He worked five years in the pharmaceutical area for Novo Nordisk (as Economy and Strategy Manager) in Denmark and served as Coloplast’s Vice President in Japan.
He returned to Denmark and became Group CEO for an international group of IT companies with more than 400 employees
In the past six years he has assisted the start-up of multiple businesses within the medico and IT area. This is in addition to working with business development for Danish and German customers in Asia (Japan, China etc.).
He is a member of a Danish group of Business Angels that invest in and develop high-tech start-ups.