Buying
Active buyers at the auction floors through the marketing season, including our own Ethical Sales Floor.
Pillar 02 ELT Leaf Trade
Zimbabwean leaf, traded to the world.
Since 2019 our Leaf Trade division has bought at the auction floors, graded and processed in country, and shipped Zimbabwean tobacco to buyers across Europe, Asia and Africa. The leaf we finance is also the leaf we understand, bale by bale.
The division
We buy what we know.
Most merchants meet the leaf on the floor. We meet it in the seed bed. Because the group finances the crop, walks the season and runs its own auction floor, our buyers grade with a grower's knowledge of how each bale was raised and cured.
Zimbabwe's crop set a national record of 355 million kilograms in 2025, and the country remains Africa's largest producer. Our job is to move that quality to the markets that pay for it, and to add as much of the value as possible before it leaves home.
Trade with us2019
the year the Leaf Trade division began
3
continents served: Europe, Asia, Africa
355M kg
Zimbabwe's record national crop, 2025
1st
Africa's largest tobacco producer
National crop figures: TIMB / Zimbabwe Tobacco Association, 2025 marketing season.
LEAF
What we do
Floor to port.
Grading
Leaf classified and graded in country by teams who know the crop from the field, not just the bale. Every grade recorded before it leaves the floor.
Processing
Preparation and packing for export, keeping the value-addition step, and its jobs, in Zimbabwe.
Export & logistics
Documentation, compliance and shipment to buyers across Europe, Asia and Africa.
Looking for Zimbabwean leaf?
Talk to the Leaf Trade desk about grades, volumes and shipment. We answer quickly.