Our Story & Our History
Ataliec Inc, was founded in 2000, as BanQmatch Dot Com Inc, a Delaware corporation that has since optimized and transformed into diverse segments of industry offerings to support the demand of our customers worldwide. We provide a range of products to buyers and end-users of Timber (Logs), Lumber and Wood products.
Ataliec is committed to economic development across sub-Sahara Africa. In February 2000 Ataliec opened in South Africa under the brand name BanQmatch Corporation (Pty), and despite the political upheaval in Africa, with coups, civil wars and single party rule, the Ataliec Group opened subsidiaries and affiliate Joint-Ventures (JVs) in African Union member states in 2001. From 2002 to 2019 the group’s coverage increased from South Africa to Thirty-Five African Union member states in Sub-Saharan Africa. Today, Ataliec is a world-class institution and a torchbearer for a new Africa. With offices in 35 sub-Sahara African countries, the Ataliec brand is synonymous with Interstate commerce in Africa.
Mission & Vision
Ataliec Inc, started with the idea of setting up an import export company across the whole of Sub-Sharan Africa for the wider Timber, Lumber and Wood Products business community. The Founders of Ataliec envisioned an African import export led business for African producers and manufacturers. The dual objective of the Ataliec Group is to enable a modern pan-African business to thrive and to contribute to the economic development and the wider Timber, Lumber and Wood Products producers and manufacturers integration on the continent.
Our Structure
Ataliec has a presence in 35 African countries, with international offices in Delaware, London, Dubai and Beijing, to support our customers’ global businesses. The Ataliec Group is a full-service Timber, Lumber and Wood Products producer and manufacturer focused on exporting solely from Sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of the world. We provide wholesale export, wholesale distribution, retail, transactional services to institutions, multinationals, local companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and individuals.
Ataliec’s core objective is being the partner of choice for local Agro Forestry farmers, Loggers, Sawmills enterprises and entrepreneurs in Africa to export their Timber, Lumber and Wood Products to the rest of the world. Our commitment to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of Timber, Lumber and Wood Products producer and manufacturer’s success is underpinned by Ataliec’s vision to contribute to the economic development and Timber, Lumber and Wood Products producer and manufacturer integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. For Small and Medium Timber, Lumber and Wood Product producers and manufacturers, this is particularly important because despite providing employment for millions of Africans, lack of formal corporate infrastructures, weak corporate governance structures, inability to forecast and a lack of access to international markets can affect their growth.
Ataliec’s ability to meaningfully contribute to their business success and promote sustainable Forest management and growth through the provision of access to international market and capacity building, is both exciting and humbling. It is Ataliec’s resolve to nurture Small and Medium Timber, Lumber and Wood Product producers and manufacturers with the utmost care by listening, advising and serving them in innovative ways.
Ataliec Academy
The Ataliec Academy is one of the largest capability development centers in Sub-Saharan Africa. It aims to enhance Africa’s Small and Medium Timber, Lumber and Wood Product producers and manufacturers through the development of professional and leadership skills, as well as assisting Africa’s sustainable Forest management integration and economic growth through the creation of Agro Forest farming, harvesting, Logging, Sawmilling, and Timber, Lumber and Wood Product manufacturing capabilities.
Ataliec Foundation
The Ataliec Foundation was created to positively transform the lives of people across Sub-Saharan Africa. It does this by deploying Ataliec’s resources, knowledge and expertise with the aim of unlocking opportunities for the Sub-Saharan African communities in which we operate. The Foundation focuses upon Sustainable Farming, health, education and business empowerment, International market access and trade.
Our Values
It is essential for Ataliec’s success that we embed the right ethics, culture, conduct and values into all our activities. These qualities form the foundations of our organization and drive the right behaviors in every engagement that we have with our customers, colleagues, communities, shareholders, regulators and all other stakeholders.
Our Commitment
Sustainability Forest Management is an integral part of Ataliec’s mission. We have a dedicated Social, Ethics and Reputation Committee, which is part of the Ataliec’s Board, and we are a signatory to a number of voluntary sustainability commitments and standards and have implemented these across our business