VISION:
To make the world a better and healthier place by providing the highest quality, naturally Kenyan-grown produce.
MISSION:
To become one of the leading Kenyan exporters of high-quality fruits, whilst observing the highest levels of social, ecological, and environmental responsibility.
We Are Ubora Orchards
At Ubora Orchards Ltd we are proud to be a family business. It allows us to truly work together and run the company by our values and beliefs. Two families working as one on achieving our vision by combining strong commercial experience and agricultural expertise. Our business idea came to life in the avocado orchards in our backyard in Kenya. Here our passion for healthy food and lifestyle was born, combined with the love for avocados, one of the healthiest fruits. This inspiration led us to create Ubora Orchards, supplying the people with the highest quality of naturally grown avocados.
One part of the family is Kenyan with over 25 years of experience in agriculture and farming. They are experts in identifying Kenya’s best locations to grow and harvest avocados. They also have long-standing relationships with many local farmers throughout Kenya. The other family originates from the Netherlands and has over 40 years of international, business management and commercial expertise, working for many large, global FMCG companies like Mars, Energizer, Nestle Purina. We are a multicultural team with offices in Kenya, Dubai, Switzerland, and the USA which allows close proximity both culturally and operationally to customers all over the world.
The Ubora Values
At Ubora Orchards we live and breathe 4 core values that create our business culture and decision making to ensure the highest quality in naturally grown fruits:
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Quality
We ensure quality by being closely involved in each step of our sourcing and supply chain. This means close relationships with local farmers and managing logistics from our farms to our pack-house. Setting the highest quality standards in our pack-house and having a highly skilled team that ensures the best quality in the market.
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Supporting the local community
We observe the highest standards of social responsibility by taking care of farmers and the rest of the community we are a part of. We are members of the Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya (FCP). They are committed to promoting the production and supply of high-quality, fresh horticultural produce, shared prosperity of their members, and protecting our environment.
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Sustainability
We strongly believe that if we take care of our planet, our planet will take care of us. By closely working together with our farmers and focusing on environmentally friendly farming to ensure the most natural product while taking care of our orchards the best way possible.
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Consistency
We have set out many quality checks throughout our company process to ensure consistent quality for each order we receive.
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Quality
We ensure quality by being closely involved in each step of our sourcing and supply chain. This means close relationships with local farmers and managing logistics from our farms to our pack-house. Setting the highest quality standards in our pack-house and having a highly skilled team that ensures the best quality in the market.
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Supporting the local community
We observe the highest standards of social responsibility by taking care of farmers and the rest of the community we are a part of. We are members of the Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya (FCP). They are committed to promoting the production and supply of high-quality, fresh horticultural produce, shared prosperity of their members, and protecting our environment.
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Sustainability
We strongly believe that if we take care of our planet, our planet will take care of us. By closely working together with our farmers and focusing on environmentally friendly farming to ensure the most natural product while taking care of our orchards the best way possible.
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Consistency
We have set out many quality checks throughout our company process to ensure consistent quality for each order we receive.
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The Orchardians
Meet our founders and directors that work daily to make our vision and mission possible.
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Anderson Kigome
Co-Founder, Director of Supply Chain & Logistics
Experienced young entrepreneur managing his own Ceramics outlet store in Nairobi (Kenya). An ambitious SME, contributing to the creation of employment and growth of GDP. Passionate about fruits farming having been brought up in an orange grove.
Anderson brings experience from a previous job as a logistics & procurement manager in a company operating within East Africa. He also worked for a roads construction company as a project manager where he won an Award for continuous delivery of projects on time and on quality. He believes on-time delivery of projects is only possible with a good and documented process and a well-trained team. Anderson brings this successful experience now to Ubora orchards and will continue to deliver a professional and efficient supply chain and logistics department, in order to contribute to the Mission, Vision of Ubora Orchards while upholding our Values.
Anderson holds a Diploma in Tourism and Business studies.
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Roelof Zeijpveld
Co-Founder & CEO
Senior international business executive delivering continuous profitable growth, both in blue-chip FMCG companies and in mid-cap consumer electronics companies.
Roelof excels in Turn Around management, M&A, and the integration of acquisitions. Significant international experience in managing the EMEA region and being part of Global Executive Leadership Teams. He has a strong passion for the people side of the business, leading multicultural teams to great successes. Business College Apeldoorn (NL) International Business.
Roelof is very excited to work with this group of young, well-educated, and experienced professionals on achieving the company’s goals. The team is creative, ambitious, competitive, and hardworking and Roelof is humbled by the opportunity to share his experience with them and lead them to great successes
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Purity Kigome
Co-Founder,Director of Customer Experience.
Inflight Manager in one of the fastest growing international airlines in the world. 16 years of experience in the aviation industry, achieving recognition from the airline and customers for her professionalism. Extensive exposure to very demanding international customer expectations. Proven leadership and management skills in challenging environments with limited resources, where she supervised the strategic planning and implementation of the organization’s overall customer experience goals. Entrepreneur setting up her own e-commerce Beauty business.
Purity brings a lot of customer-centric experience from her job as an inflight manager to Ubora Orchard’s ensuring the international clientele has a seamless experience from the first contact to Ubora Orchards till delivery. Both her studies in Japan and her International career has made her a very multicultural, multilingual business professional. She has excellent communication skills, is very confident in working in a cosmopolitan environment, has a great understanding of various international customer expectations, is motivated for new challenges and finding ways to support the business, setting up procedures, and recruiting the right team to meet our customers’ expectations.
Purity is excited to contribute to Ubora Orchards’ performance and success. Her love for people from all walks of life, living a very healthy lifestyle, traveling and exploring different cultures makes her a great asset to Ubora Orchards.
Purity holds a diploma in Japanese language and International Aviation studies from Tohoku Foreign Language & Tourism College,Sendai, Japan.
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Peter Michira
Co-founder, Director of Orchards & Farmers Relationships.
Social Scientist with a wide range of experience in grass root empowerment programs in the agricultural sector.
Passionate about the adoption of sustainable and innovative farming techniques.Ideologic an agricultural entrepreneur running his own farm.
Peter has developed long-lasting relationships with numerous avocado farmers’ groups
and works with recognized agronomists to optimize the development of orchards in a
sustainable and biological way.
His education and experience as a community engagement specialist makes him the right executive for the cooperation with the
farmers. Educating and convincing them of the long-term goals to optimize the growth of
avocados while ensuring fair treatment.Peter holds a bachelor degree in Social Works from the University of Nairobi (UoN) and a Master’s degree in Community Health and Development from the Great Lakes
University of Kisumu(GLUK)