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Aureus Group

History

Seventeen years, and one unplanned acquisition.

We did not set out to be a dual-industry company. We bought the farm that supplied our canteen because the owner was retiring and we did not want to lose the supply.

  • 17years

    Operating across two industries

  • 68

    Enterprise deployments

  • 9

    Countries served

Milestones

How the two divisions came to share a board

  1. 2009

    Founded in Ho Chi Minh City

    Four people building finance systems for local manufacturers.

  2. 2013

    First multi-site ERP rollout

    Three plants, one chart of accounts, and the delivery discipline that still governs how we work.

  3. 2016

    Cau Dat estate acquired

    The farm that had supplied our canteen became the second division.

  4. 2018

    ISO 9001 and 27001 certified

    Both audited by Bureau Veritas and BSI, and re-audited annually since.

  5. 2020

    First EU export container

    GlobalG.A.P. certification achieved, and green coffee shipped to Germany.

  6. 2022

    Singapore office opened

    Trade and partnership function established closer to buyers.

  7. 2024

    Applied AI practice established

    Evaluation-first approach; nine models now running in client production.

  8. 2026

    240 people, 9 countries

    Two divisions, one governance standard, and 91 people past their fifth year.

  • 17years

    Operating across two industries

  • 68

    Enterprise deployments

    since 2009

  • 9

    Countries served

  • 240

    People on staff

What we learned

The discipline transferred, the sales pitch did not

The first two years of running both businesses were harder than they needed to be, because we tried to sell them together. Prospects for the software business found the farm confusing, and produce buyers could not work out why a coffee exporter was talking about ERP.

What did transfer was the operating discipline. Both businesses live or die on whether the records hold up when somebody checks — a reconciliation report for one, a lot code for the other. Once we stopped merging the marketing and started sharing the standard, both divisions grew.

That lesson is why this website routes you to one division or the other rather than making you read about both.

  • 2016–2018: sold both together, and both underperformed
  • 2018: split the go-to-market, kept the shared governance
  • 2020 onwards: both divisions grew every year since

Next step

Ask about the years we do not put on the timeline.

2023 cost us four percent of agricultural margin because we held a floor price we could have withdrawn. We will talk about that too.

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