DAABON history
Our inheritance
We are a business family that has left an agribusiness legacy to many generations to come in the Department of Magdalena.
1914
![Banana](../img/timeline/1914.jpg)
First crops and livestock business established by the first generation of the Davila family
1959 – 1975
- Cotton crop 5 hectares
- Establishment of the Dairy Company San Francisco (Dairy products).
- First Oil Palm crops established by the second generation.
![Nursery](../img/timeline/cultivos.jpg)
1980
Consolidation of the Grupo DAABON (DAABON Group).
![Daabon](../img/logo.png)
1985-1992
- Establishment of the Tequendama milling plant (12 t/day).
- Organic certification in Oil Palm, Coffee and Banana.
- Installation of a fruit dehydration plant for banana, mango and pineapple.
![Extraction mill](../img/timeline/extractora.jpg)
1993 – 1998
- First coffee, crude palm oil and banana exports to the European and Japanese markets.
- Establishment of the refinery plant (35 t/day).
- Partnership with the Sociedad Portuaria de Santa Marta (The Santa Marta Port Society)
- Terlica (Liquid Bulk Terminal) is established.
![Bulk tanks](../img/timeline/terlica.jpg)
1999 – 2003
- DAABON is strategically allied with commercial agents authorized to market our products.
- Start of the alliances project (small producers).
- The refinery plant is expanded, and the fractioning plant is installed.
- Rainforest and NOP certifications for some of our products.
![Refinery](../img/timeline/refinadora.jpg)
2004 – 2009
- First Colombian company to start the RSPO certification process.
- New plant for shortenings.
- Expansion of hectares for agricultural production (4.000 hectares)
![fractionation](../img/timeline/margarina.jpg)
2010 – 2015
- First company in Colombia to obtain the RSPO Certification.
- Oil palm cultivations are Rainforest Alliance certified.
- The Clean Development Mechanism is implemented by means of which an energy self-generation system is commissioned.
2015 – 2020
- Daabon is strategically allied with commercial agents authorized to market our products.
- First honey harvest from our conservation areas.
- FairTrade Certification in Palm Oil.
- First company to be RSPO Next certified in the world.
- First exports of Hass avocado to Europe.
- RSPO Certification to Palma y Trabajo
- Strategic alliance with Soapworks (soap supplier company in the international markets).
- Daabon forms a strategic alliance with a new UK authorized commercial agent.
![RSPO certification](../img/timeline/rspo.jpg)