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About Roberts Colson & Company

Our Mission

Our Products

Our Mission

Roberts Colson & Company is a global professional services firm that collaborates with Partners in the development of strategic growth solutions that help improve the quality of daily life of communities and markets in which we do business and live.

Our Team

Our Products

Our Mission

For just under 200 years our  team consists of experienced professionals who are passionate about what they do and dedicated to providing the best possible service to our Partners..

Our Products

Our Products

Our Products

We offer a wide range of products in services that help accelerate growth for our Partners and Customers. We have a target focus of driving trade between Africa, North America and the world.

Every Business Has A Beginning 200 years growth...

Our Start

-1829 William Colsons and Joseph Jenkin Roberts two free black business men from Petersburg, Virginia (USA) formed the  Partnership of Roberts Colson & Company

-1829 After forming the Partnership Joseph Jenkins Roberts at the age of 20 immigrated to Liberia with the American Colonization Society and set up the African operations of Roberts Colson Co.


--1830 Roberts Colson and Co. purchased a schooner "The Caroline" and began trading goods such as camwood, cider, clothing, ivory and palm oil between USA and Africa


-1835 William Colson traveled from USA to Liberia to become acquainted with the firm's African operations during his trip he contract malaria and died in Monrovia, Liberia, after helping to create the first African American owned Transatlantic Shipping and Trade Development Company


-1836 As a result of Colson's death, the firm Roberts Colson and Co was dissolved


-1847 Joseph Jenkins Roberts was elected the first President of the Republic of Liberia


-1876 Joseph Jenkins Roberts died in Monrovia, Liberia


-2023 Two Black Business Men Dr. Charles O-dour and Mr. Curtiss Stancil re-established the firm Roberts Colson and Co. in the same framework as the firm's original founders. Dr. Odour relocated to Nairobi, Kenya to setup African operations and Curtiss Stancil remained in the USA to run the firms North American Operations

Our Integrated Solutions

TEA

Fresh Cut Flowers

Coffee

We offer single source and origin integrated Tea solutions by partnering with KTDA a private company owned by over 600,000 smallholder tea farmers spread across 16 tea growing counties in Kenya.  The farmers are shareholders to 54 tea companies that own KTDA and its 8 operating subsidiary companies, responsible for over 70% of the $1.7 billion Kenya Tea exported to over 80 countries around the world annually.


Tea Info

Coffee

Fresh Cut Flowers

Coffee

We support Sasinini, PLC by providing strategic Sales and Growth Support Services across North America. Our coffee operations include coffee grounds and forestry.  Coffee is grown on six independant estates in the Central Highland of Kenya covering a total over 2,000 acres under coffee.  Collectively, the plantations have a capacity to produce an average of 12oo MT of coffee annually.  Our coffee estates are specifically situated in Kiambu County near Nairobi and Nyeri on the foothills of Mount Kenya. We export 90% of our coffee to Europe, Asia and America.

Coffee Info

Fresh Cut Flowers

Fresh Cut Flowers

Global Commodities

We are provide farm to table single source and origin fresh cut flowers services from growing, processing and exporting. We also have in-house logistics and freight division by working with our Partner Shalimar Fresh Flowers one of the worlds leading grower and exporter of Fresh Cut Flowers. We support Shalimar Freash with sales and partnership growth solutions in North America.

Flowers INFO

Global Commodities

Integrated Services

Global Commodities

Roberts Colson & Company have a strategic partnership with COMAT Commodities, to provide Integrated

Roberts Colson & Company have a strategic partnership with Kenyan Based Integrated Commodities Firm, COMAT Commodities to help provide Partnership support with our clients in Kenya and across East Africa!

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Integrated Services

Integrated Services

Integrated Services

 CulturalServ, our integrated services division, provides managed services such as contract foodservices, transportation, education support and design build & facility management services across the USA and International Markets!

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Sasini PLC Sustainability

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Kenya Expands Exports To USA

Roberts Colson & Company, Inc. hosted the Kenyan Minister of Agriculture and Delegates on Trade Mission to USA!

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KNCCI SIGNS MOU WITH THE SC AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Roberts Colson & Company worked with both SC African American Chamber of Commerce and Kenya National Chamber of Commerce on MOU to boost trade

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Expanding Kenyan Tea To North America

MMU Explores Global Partnerships to Boost Film and Creative Industry

MMU Explores Global Partnerships to Boost Film and Creative Industry

Robert Colson & Company, Inc. signed an exclusive agreement to represent KTDA Holdings, LTD to help expand Kenyan Tea Across North America.  KTDA Holdings is owned by 650,000 small Kenyan Tea Farmers responsible for over 70% of Kenyan $1.7 billion in Tea Exports to 80 countries around the world!

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MMU Explores Global Partnerships to Boost Film and Creative Industry

MMU Explores Global Partnerships to Boost Film and Creative Industry

MMU Explores Global Partnerships to Boost Film and Creative Industry

Roberts Colson & Company, Inc Partners with MMU to boost film and creative industries between Kenya and USA

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