Sapro International

And now Mike Miller and family bring you an online ordering experience that guarantees quality of product and provides customer service that ensures that you, the customer, are always happy with your shopping experience. We have started the new website with a range of magazines from the largest magazine publisher in South Africa, Media 24. We have... started with Media 24's top selling magazines which we will add to in the weeks and months to come. Everything that we sell will be direct from the supplier in South Africa to you, the customer, in the UK or Europe utilising our fast airmail and seamail services. In early 1997 Mike Miller was on a trip to the UK from South Africa and was asked by several South African store owners in England to find a way of importing good quality South African consumer products at low cost into the UK. Mike and his wife Liz sourced the products required in South Africa and packed the first container In Woodmead north of Johannesburg on May 30th 1997. The products were so well received that orders started flowing in. Mike and Liz set up South African Products International (Pty) Ltd. (SAPRO) in South Africa and a corresponding company in the UK. In the years that followed this has led to SAPRO in South Africa continuing to source and export products, not only to the UK, but Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many other countries. In the meantime Mike and Liz and family moved to England to develop the business in the UK, initially the wholesale business which is now known as SA Wholesale and is now owned and run by Peter and Jan Mahoney and their team. This is turn led to "THE SOUTH AFRICAN SHOP" opening in the town centre of Maidenhead in Berkshire in August 1999. This is still the largest store of its type in the UK supplying products to Safrophiles throughout the UK. In 2000 Mike and Liz set up SAJE International Ltd. to concentrate on the development of THE SOUTH AFRICAN SHOP in Maidenhead and THE SOUTH AFRICAN SHOP online mailorder service following the launch of the company's ...Read More