Commodities For Inductries

Industries

At Foumtum Development, we have one core purpose is to help your industry succeed. We do this by offering industries global trade services including trading, sourcing, exports, imports, due diligence checks, and consulting. We provide the most in-depth and comprehensive import-export consulting service that is structured in world-class standards to guide business around the globe and help them navigate the challenges faced by most new and existing exporters in the export industries.

We don't just sell commodities, we sell an experience, and a satisfactory one. And will strive to do this over and over again with the clients that choose to build a great future for both their industries and ours.

Our global trade expertise enables us to execute oil and non-oil commodity exports at the best quality and price for qualified buyer. We ensure our transactions are not just safe for both our clients and our organization but will help us build and sustain very long-term rewarding relationships with our clients and partners.

Partnering with producers, traders, marketers and consumers across the commodity supply chain, we help industries transform and optimize commercial strategies and operations by integrating digital solutions throughout your value chain.

Today’s climate for commodity traders is constantly evolving and ever more complex. The availability of data, distribution of asset ownership, growing retail marketing, and current market dynamics are urging them to look at new ways of working across the enterprise.

What Makes Foumtum Development Unique?

As commodities are in essence, goods and raw materials that are traded in a commercial manner, they form the basis of various other commodities, acting as the building block for various items and products used billions of times each day throughout the world, including chocolate in the case of dairy, cocoa and sugar for example. Uniquely, in the case of commodities and commodity trading, the values and thus the prices of commodities are standardised, with values set by global commodities exchanges. These exchanges include metal, oil, mercantile and other exchanges around the world.

Crucially, this means that no matter where in the world and where in the global commodity market a good or raw material is produced, equivalent units of the same goods, products and raw materials will all hold the same value throughout the world, no matter where it is traded.

Categories of Commodities

Commodity prices are highly volatile and dependent on internal factors including cost of production and logistics as well as external factors such as global demand, inflation and currency exchange rates. The main categories include:

Agricultural commodities:
Such as chili, avocado, cocoa, coffee beans, tea, sugar and others.
Livestock commodities:
Live cattle and livestock and meat.
Metal commodities:
Metals such as gold, silver, bronze, platinum etc.
Energy commodities:
This includes petrol and oil.