A Few Words

About us

Founded in 1942 in Marseille, then SMI was specialized in the importation of manioc, rice … coming exclusively from Madagascar. Since then the company has gained a big experience in the spice and raffia trading. We can boast more than 70 years of “savoir-faire”.

Nowadays the company operates under the guidance and the supervision of Nicolas Séailles who started his career in this firm in 1989.

At that time, SMI was located in the city of Marseille and was the sister company of CHARABOT SA

In 2001, SMI moved to the city of Grasse where its parent house was.

Since 2006 SMI has been an independent company with his new headquarters in Le bar Sur Loup at few kilometers from Grasse.

SMI exports worldwide a wide range of products such as cloves, pepper (black, wild, pink and green in brine), cinnamon chips and sticks (Zeylanicum and Cassia), vanilla beans and raffia straw coming from different production areas in Madagascar.

We work closely and exclusively with most of our partners, collaborating only with selected first class suppliers for each products in order to offer a constant quality.

We do aim at building a long term business relationship with our clients providing careful attention to their requirements.

SMI RafiaStar team of experts in raffia export
Exporting raffia and natural products

OUR STRONG POINTS TO BRING A QUALITY SERVICE.

Anticipation

Efficiency

Reactivity

Wisdom

Our map

Producing countries and customers location

Our Services

SMI was specialized in the importation of manioc, corn cattle cakes, rice… coming exclusively from Madagascar.

We can ship directly from Madagascar to any destinations in the world combined containers of 100 kgs pressed bales.

The raffia leaf is a natural fiber coming from a young palm which was cut off before it comes at full maturity.

Our experience allows us to understand the specific needs of our client.  We give a quick and an accurate answer to any enquiry we may receive.

We are specialized in the exportation of spices from the origin to the destination, selecting us you would have the guarantee of quality.

Our sales conditions are CIF for full container load and DDP for consolidated goods to Europe into one of our container to FRANCE.