Best Commodity Trading Company 2025 – MEA

Inspiring the Middle East and Africa

Commodity trading has a longstanding, rich history behind it. As an ancient profession, commodity trading, across metal, energy, livestock, and agricultural products, has been at the very core of human existence since the dawn of our time. With so many ways to trade commodities, for a sustainable business environment, Fraser Legacy Holdings houses its individual companies to facilitate and nurture growth across multiple markets. We explore the business’ contribution to the trading sphere as it wins its title in our Global Business Awards 2025.

The History of Commodity Trading

Before the world was as we know it now, trading was incredibly difficult and expensive. Then came boats, trains, planes, and road vehicles which facilitated the easier, quicker, and less expensive transportation and trading of commodities which are integral to our lives.

Commodities are crucial to investors for diversifying portfolios beyond traditional securities, especially as the prices of commodities often move in the opposite direction of stocks. This usually means that investors can rely on returns from commodities during periods of market volatility, ensuring that ROI can be experienced in a more rounded manner.

As commodities are sorted into the broad categories mentioned above, it is important to remember humankind’s deeply rooted economic experience whereby food, energy, and materials were harvested and traded as co-existing communities. Commodity trading has always played a pivotal role in driving economic growth through its support of various communities both past and present.

This role bolsters various companies across the corporate landscape and creates an abundance of employment opportunities, while contributing to each country or region’s revenue and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Of course, GDP is significant as a tool for traders to understand market trends in order to make informed decisions for the current moment and the future to come which is an essential part of the trading industry.

Commodity trading is not simply exchanging goods, it is an industry which needs to be expertly planned, organised, and nurtured in order to take advantage of the latest technological advancements to increase global trade volume. It is a way forward for many regions as they look to trading companies and investment companies who can do it all, to build up their communities and society as a whole.

Introducing Fraser Legacy Holdings

Forming a strategy for effective trading is no small feat, but, built on the foundation of sustainability and security, Fraser Legacy Holdings is proud to be part of the empowerment of entrepreneurs as contributors to the economy across its region.

Pushing forward to encourage and enhance local production and manufacturing, with sourcing locally as a first preference, built on strong principles focusing on sustainability, job security and creation, community engagement, and regeneration.

With a goal to create a more sustainable world, through committed commodity trading options, Fraser Legacy Holdings approaches markets with ethics at its core. Investing in its own people, and the people of the surrounding communities, the company is proud to be part of the all-important economic rehabilitation. This ultimately helps communities to come together, construct a sturdy economy, and truly thrive.

With its operations structured around four core strategic divisions, Fraser Legacy Holdings’ work is expertly designed to function effectively on a local and international scale. The company’s values are constructed on a bed of integrity and ethics, transparency and accountability, innovation and adaptability, collaboration and respect, and sustainability/long term perspective. Through its stewardship, performance excellence, value creation, integrity and trust, innovation and growth mindset, and responsible governance, Fraser Legacy Holdings is truly dedicated to expansion and the satisfaction of its clients.

“At Fraser Legacy Holdings, our values are not just a guide — they are the foundation upon which our legacy continues to grow.”

Integrity and Ethics

By building trust between itself and its investors, partners, and employees, Fraser Legacy Holdings works tirelessly to lower the risk of reputational damage and ensures compliance, all to enrich the realm of holding companies and investments overall.

Transparency and Accountability

The way the company attracts investors is through its solid reputation, guaranteeing a diverse portfolio, strong ethics, and its monitoring of performance to attract and retain investors. By being fully transparent, the business has built a strong network of investors who each experience the highest level of service and diversity to support their ROI.

Innovation and Adaptability

Responding to ever-changing markets, Fraser Legacy Holdings continues to seize new opportunities to increase its diverse portfolio. This ultimately helps it to expand its offerings and deliver its seasoned expertise for investors to benefit from.

Sustainability and Long Term Vision

This segment of Fraser Legacy Holdings’ core values has resulted in the commitment to long-term planning. In terms of business, especially in trading, it is of utmost importance that organisations aren’t blinkered and only focused on the present time, as planning ahead well into the pipeline of the future continues to help companies to expand their portfolios and scope of the corporate landscape.

Collaboration and Respect

Finally, this core value propels Fraser Legacy Holdings much further than some of its competitors as this valuable focus helps it to work with multiple stakeholders. From different companies to boards, management, and external partners, this award-winning company is staying abreast of any changes, challenges, and opportunities for itself and its collaborations.

Fraser Legacy Holdings’ systemic problem solving, alignment and resource leverage, risk management and opportunity mining, and its outstanding mindset and culture, along with many more qualities that never take the backburner.

Inspiring Growth

Fraser Legacy Holdings increases import and export trade while reducing the market costs of products imported and redistributed to the local markets. Through its business management, commodity and natural resources trading portfolio, the firm empowers its clients with the correct frameworks so that the Middle East and Africa can flourish.

Encouraging this growth, Fraser Legacy Holdings works with coal, oil and gas, fertilizer, and sugar as its product range. It is focused on these central offerings in a way that allows it to completely understand each product’s entire lifecycle from production to its end resale, and how the products impact the region’s revenue and GDP.

Supplying to the International Market

For example, well positioned in the international market for the production and sales of fertilizer, Fraser Legacy Holdings works with agricultural products on fixed term allocations. Its allocations are a result of purchases directly from refineries and, through these contracts, the company is able to fulfil its duties of trading fertilizer on a CIF basis and in the correct packaging for each destination in specific markets.

With a roster of subsidiaries, Fraser Legacy Holdings supports a huge amount of trading, business management, and investment. From Legacy Telecoms to Fraser Legacy Mining, Fraser Legacy Investments to Fraser Estates, and many more, the parent company is brimming with ways to manage and grow assets in a sustainable and fair way.

Fraser Legacy Fuels, a subsidiary of the firm, is a prominent contributor to the international supplies of fuel. Supplying over 5 million metric tons per month on a CIF basis, from secure providers of fuel in Jurong, Fujairah, Rotterdam, and Galveston, Fraser Legacy Fuels makes a huge economic impact for suppliers and end users.

Fraser Legacy Holdings is well positioned in the sugar market in South Africa where it imports sugar from Brazil, in addition to being able to supply on an international basis. With over 2000 sugarcane farms working for its allocations via contacts in excess of 1,800,000 metric tons per month, the firm uses its established off take agreements and planned production strategies to supply to different communities around the world.

Supplying sugar products which meet international standards, and assured via internationally accredited testing companies, Fraser Legacy Holdings ensures that the product is suitable and reliable through controlled contract management for a complete solution.

The company is also able to supply coal across a variety of regions from pit to port under Incoterm 2020 FOB and CIF. Its products always meet the SCOTA specification of RB1, RB2, RB3, RB4, and Anthrocite, and its aforementioned off take agreements and planned production continue to push it to the forefront within its industry.

Investments Made Easier

Atop the commodities on offer, Fraser Legacy Investments is a UAE registered trade finance company providing support to organisations which may be unable to obtain facilities for many reasons. As the subsidiary has facilities with many top banking providers in the world, Fraser Legacy Investments is able to empower businesses by reviewing and discussing applications which can make all the difference to their transactions.

Although this type of trading traditionally required more time, money, and expertise, we now live in a world where commodity trading is more simple than it have ever been.

The company is able to arrange SBLC, LC, and DLC for trading businesses so that buying and selling parties can have a mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship without costing the earth. Fraser Legacy Investments is well-equipped to help businesses to trade from Africa while navigating the banking regulations and local economies which may be a hindrance to a transaction.

In this respect, Fraser Legacy Holdings’ subsidiary companies are delivering more empowerment to the people of the MEA region so that more communities can take advantage of the market and while growing the economy for everyone to benefit from – equally, sustainably, and ethically.

Also providing financial and operational expertise to the infrastructure, construction, and mining industries, Fraser Legacy Holdings is a recognised for its financial partners’ work across the integral sectors. With years of experience behind the firm, its future is looking incredibly bright – both for its own growth and the expansion of the trading community across the MEA region.

The Future of Commodity Trading

In recent years, commodity traders have focused on high volatility markets whereas the emerging curve in the industry is to focus on leaner industry margins. Due to the boom years of 2022 and 2023, the volatility levels soared and caused an increase in industry margins which inspired many people to grow their capabilities in trading.

Due to this response, 2024 saw traders facing higher levels of competition and pressure which now requires new tools and revised operating strategies to quantify and manage both price exposure and risks.

As the trading market has always experienced extreme highs and lows, it takes a dedicated individual and groups of individuals to take the lead. Trading commodities can seem like the unknown, uncertain, and full of risk but, with Fraser Legacy Holdings, everything can be organised and managed expertly and strategically so that our economy, and our communities, can feel more steady. As the future beckons, Fraser Legacy Holdings stands strong in its position as an innovator and supporter of integral communities. Margins are currently receding to a point where traders can run leaner and work even harder to build the profits they are looking for. Fraser Legacy Holdings is no stranger to working hard, and it does so tirelessly so that it can impact its industry and the communities which it touches.

Pioneering Digital Transformation

“Looking ahead, Fraser Legacy Holdings is preparing for an exciting period of growth. Over the next 12 months, we anticipate the launch of new property developments, the formation of strategic partnerships and the advancement of sustainability initiatives. We are also investing in technology to enhance operational transparency and expanding into new markets with a focus on long-term community and environmental impact.

“Digital transformation and PropTech are changing how properties are marketed and managed: virtual tours, online contracts and data-driven valuation tools are now mainstream, while AI and advanced analytics are improving site selection and investment decisions.”

We have recently awarded Fraser Legacy Holdings with the esteemed title of Best Commodity Trading Company 2025 – MEA and we’re delighted to predict its success well into the years to come, especially as it focuses on empowering others through everything that its team does.

Contact Details

Contact: Richard Fraser

Company: Fraser Legacy Holdings

Website: https://fraser-legacy-holdings.co.za/