WELCOME TO OZ FLORA
OZ Flora is a specialized sourcing company for the export market; trading in indigenous flowers mostly from the Western Cape of South Africa. Based at Cape Town International airport, OZ Flora is the “port of exit”
Our extensive product range, wild-harvested and cultivated are focused on sustainability and include – Protea, Pincushions, Leucadendrons, Brunias and a large variety of flowering and green fynbos.
Although the Cape floral kingdom has the smallest surface area, it boasts the richest and highest diversity than any other floral kingdom in the world.
OZ Flora sources from a network of more than 70 suppliers, Many of which have been with us since the beginning.
The flowers we source travel worldwide and are exported to the Far East, including; Japan, South Korea, Singapore and recently, China. In North America, we export to both Canada (YUL; YYZ) and USA (NYC; MIA; LAX). In Europe we are strong in export thanks to our sister company OZ Import; but also send flowers directly to France; Germany; Switzerland and Italy.
We are ‘in-house’ with our forwarding agent DSV and in close proximity to customs; Phytosanitary, Quality inspectors and all major airline cargo offices.
ABOUT US
OZ Flora was established in 1998 by two business friends, Cino Gironi and Jaco Van Zijverden (Dutch Flower Group). With its initial function being the supply of capeflora to our sister company in Holland, OZ Import.
Having established a solid base in Holland combined with our association to the Dutch Flower Group, OZ flora started establishing a presence in Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, USA and France, and the rest is history.