The company’s tobacco business includes selecting, buying, shipping, processing, packing, storing, and financing leaf tobacco in tobacco growing countries for sale to, or for the account of, manufacturers of tobacco products throughout the world.
Its tobacco sales consist primarily of flue-cured and burley tobaccos, which, along with oriental tobaccos, are the ingredients in American-blend cigarettes.
The company’s agri-products business involves selecting, buying, processing, storing, shipping, financing, and distributing, as well as importing and exporting various products, including tea, rubber, sunflower seeds, nuts, dried fruit, and canned and frozen foods.
The company provides its products to various customers in the retail food and food packaging industry and in the rubber and tire manufacturing industry.
It engages in the lumber and building products distribution and processing business in the Netherlands and other countries in Europe.
This business operates in Construction Supplies and Retail Supplies units.
The Construction Supplies unit, with its customer base in the Dutch building construction sector, sells various lumber and related building products through a network of regional outlets.
This unit also manufactures window frames, prefabricated elements, and doors.
The Retail Supplies unit has customer base in the Benelux and Europe.
It supplies Do-it-Yourself retailers, home improvement stores, and garden center outlets with various lumber and related products, including softwood, moldings, panel products, doors, decorative materials, floors, and garden furniture, as well as garden timbers and garden houses.
The company was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.
