Allpa S.A.
Allpa S.A. is a commercial company with partly social objectives. This professionally led export and marketing organisation concentrates on an alternative market and since 1989 it's a counterpart of Fair Trade. Allpa aims at being a sales company that offers alternative sales channels to less capable handicraft industries in Peru. Allpa works with 4 types of producers: the individual producer, the family unit, the micro-entrepreneur, the cooperation and family units united in unions. Allpa works mainly together with family-units (60%) and micro-entrepreneurs (15%); individual producers constitute a very small part. On this moment Allpa works together with 1 cooperation, consisting of 8 women groups and a few unions existing of 200 family units all together. From this last group is bought very little at the moment as a result of disappointing sales.
Allpa contains an assortment of more than 5000 products and exports these to 18 countries. Other services that Allpa offers its producers are among others assistance with development of new products and improving of the existing assortment, improvement of production techniques. Furthermore the organisation pays attention to protection of milieu in production processes and to revaluating the innovative and changing role of women.
Allpa is a corporation and the Stakeholders´ Meeting is the main organ of the company that guards its objectives. The stakeholders are not known with HIVOS. The daily decision-making is in hands of the management, together with the chiefs of the departments Production and Purchase, Storage, Administration and Marketing. Allpa commands 12 fixed employees and 8 temporary employees on a contract basis. Ten out of the twelve employees are women, of which the director.
Allpa contains an assortment of more than 5000 products and exports these to 18 countries. Other services that Allpa offers its producers are among others assistance with development of new products and improving of the existing assortment, improvement of production techniques. Furthermore the organisation pays attention to protection of milieu in production processes and to revaluating the innovative and changing role of women.
Allpa is a corporation and the Stakeholders´ Meeting is the main organ of the company that guards its objectives. The stakeholders are not known with HIVOS. The daily decision-making is in hands of the management, together with the chiefs of the departments Production and Purchase, Storage, Administration and Marketing. Allpa commands 12 fixed employees and 8 temporary employees on a contract basis. Ten out of the twelve employees are women, of which the director.
Type of organisation |
Service organization /profit |
Sector |
Financial Services |
Country |
Peru |
Founded |
1982 |
Hivos partner since |
1997 |
Website |
http://www.allpa.org.pe |
Herfinanciering lening voor we
| DAC-sectors: | Industry Business and trade |
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| Location: | |
| Beneficiary: | small entrepreneurs: small business, trade, crafts, services |
| Contract total: | 226.672 |
| Contractperiod: | 01-11-1997 until 01-01-2011 |
| Description: | |
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| Throughout the year ALLPA needs quite a large share of capital to be able to buy products from producers. Orders will be standardly financed up to 50%. On a local capital market Allpa can only qualify for short running credits because the offered pledge cannot cover the financial need. As a result these short running loans are expensive and time consuming. Via Fair Trade Allpa asked the Hivos Triodos Fund for a loan of 300.000 USD. This capital is used to cover a part of the financial need an fill up the loans. The missing part will still be received on the local capital market. The time course of the loan will be 5 years. Hivos secures 80% of the asked amount, while Fair Trade will secure 20%. In 2007 ALLPA will receive an additional amount of USD 50.000. |
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