Comexbo SARL

What Comexbo SARL does

Comexbo SARL is a French international trading company (Société à Responsabilité Limitée) founded in 2014 and headquartered in Latresne, Gironde, in southwestern France. The company operates as a B2B intermediary specializing in the procurement and distribution of industrial commodity materials — primarily steel and wood, with secondary lines in aluminum and stainless steel — for professional buyers. Its stated focus is on DROM-COM markets (France's overseas territories), positioning it as a specialist in transcontinental supply chains serving islands such as Réunion, Mayotte, New Caledonia, and French Polynesia.

The company's underlying 'platform' is a trade intermediation stack rather than a software product: it combines four service lines — sales, purchase-office (sourcing), logistics, and buyer financing — to deliver materials from international mills and suppliers to overseas professional clients. Its technology footprint is limited to a multilingual corporate website (French, English, Spanish) used for quotation requests and product specification display; there is no proprietary trading platform, marketplace, or e-commerce tooling visible. Service delivery depends on supplier relationships, freight-forwarder coordination, and bespoke quotation workflows rather than standardized contracts.

The business model is transaction-based B2B: pricing is quote-driven per project, with revenue generated from spreads on sourcing, logistics margin, and ancillary financing services. The company is family-managed, with a small 5-person team including Direction (Tristan Giroulle), Sales (Arthur Giroulle), Finance (Carolina Muñoz Fernández), and supporting commercial staff (Émilie Jumel, Martine Rodriguez). No external funding rounds, certifications, awards, patents, or named customer logos are disclosed in the available data, and revenue figures are not published.

Name

Comexbo SARL

Legal name

Comexbo SARL

Website

https://comexbo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Comexbo SARL is a France-based B2B international trading company, founded in 2014, that sources and distributes steel, wood, aluminum, and stainless steel products to professional buyers, with a stated focus on DROM-COM (French overseas) markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Latresne

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Product Sales: Revenue generated through the sale of steel, wood, aluminum, and stainless steel products to professional customers internationally. Products include beams, pipes, sheets, merchant bars, coils, trusses, formwork, and various wood products.
2. Logistics Services: Maritime shipping management and freight forwarding services including customs clearance, container optimization, and shipping in various container types (20', 40', 40 HC, Flat, Open Top).
3. Purchase Office Services: Sourcing and procurement services leveraging relationships with global suppliers to find best products and conditions for customers.
4. Financing Services: Financial solutions and payment terms negotiated through banking partners to facilitate transactions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Comexbo SARL is an international trading company that sources and resells steel, wood, aluminium, and stainless steel products to professional buyers, primarily serving DROM-COM overseas territories and other export markets. The company complements its product supply with a Purchase Office (sourcing), international logistics and freight forwarding, and trade financing services aimed at construction, infrastructure, and industrial customers.

Product overview

Comexbo SARL is an international steel and wood trading company established in 2014, specializing in the distribution of steel, wood, aluminium, and stainless steel products to professional customers. The company operates with four core product categories: (1) Steel products including beams (HEA, HEB, HEM, IPE, IPN, UPN, UPE), merchant bars, pipes, coils, reinforcing steel, and long products; (2) Wood products encompassing trusses, glue-laminated timber, formwork, flooring, cladding, terrace, parquet, plywood, mouldings, and various dimensional lumber; (3) Aluminium products including sheets, pipes, and long products; (4) Stainless steel products including sheets and pipes. The company offers a comprehensive service package combining sales, a purchasing office for sourcing, logistics (maritime transport, customs, container optimization), and financing solutions to support international trade transactions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Guaranteed response within 24 hours
• +1 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Point.P: French building-materials distributor (Saint-Gobain subsidiary) serving construction professionals with multi-product offerings across steel, wood, and insulation. Comparable B2B customer base and product breadth, but operating at significantly larger scale with a national branch network.
• BigMat: European cooperative of independent building-materials merchants with operations across multiple countries including France. Comparable as a multi-product construction supplier to professional customers, though with a pan-European footprint and member-firm model rather than centralized trading.
• Voestalpine: Austrian steel and technology group with global distribution of high-quality steel products for construction, automotive, and industrial applications. Comparable in steel-product portfolio serving construction/industrial B2B customers, though operating as an integrated producer-distributor at far greater scale.
• Saint-Gobain Distribution: Distribution arm of Saint-Gobain operating brands such as Point.P, Gedimat, and La Plateforme in France and internationally. Operates in the same construction-materials distribution space as Comexbo, though with vastly greater scale and a broader building-products portfolio.
• Chausson Matériaux: Independent French construction-materials distributor with a national network serving building professionals. Comparable in target customer (B2B construction professionals) and product mix (steel, wood, building supplies), though domestically focused rather than international.
• Gedimat: French cooperative network of independent building-materials distributors serving professional trades. Comparable in B2B trade-customer focus and multi-category construction supply, though organized as a domestic purchasing group rather than an international trader.

Others

• Kuehne+Nagel: Global freight forwarder and logistics provider with strong French presence, offering ocean, road, and customs services. Relevant for benchmarking the logistics/freight-forwarding component of Comexbo's service offering, though operating at vastly larger scale as a pure logistics provider.
• DSV: Global transport and logistics provider with extensive European freight forwarding and customs brokerage operations. Relevant for the international container-shipping and customs-clearing aspects of Comexbo's integrated offering, though operating as a pure-play logistics provider.
• Geodis: French-headquartered global logistics company (owned by SNCF) with freight forwarding, contract logistics, and customs brokerage capabilities. Comparable to Comexbo on the maritime logistics and customs-handling service component, though as a dedicated logistics specialist rather than a product trader.

Direct peers

• Kloeckner & Co: German-headquartered international metals and steel distributor with integrated digital platform (Kloeckner.i) and pan-European/French presence. Closely comparable to Comexbo as a multi-metal distributor serving construction and industrial B2B customers with value-added processing and logistics services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses6 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/comexbo-sarl

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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