WHO WE ARE
About Us
At ES-KO, we empower our clients to concentrate solely on their core operations, while we expertly manage all their needs. This dedication extends to providing an extensive array of services and solutions, even in the most remote and challenging environments across the globe.
With over 65 years of experience, an unyielding commitment, and unmatched expertise, we’ve earned a strong reputation as the preferred partner for a wide range of services that include procurement & supply chain, engineering & camp construction, risk assessment & security and catering & support services.
Our multinational team is driven by a shared commitment to excellence and innovation. ES-KO’s highly qualified managerial staff and extensively trained personnel collaborate seamlessly, spanning from our headquarters to ES-KO offices and field operations, to deliver the highest level of service to all our clients.
Our global footprint has enabled us to forge robust partnerships in the sectors of Governmental Agencies, Intergovernmental and Non-governmental Organizations and Energy and Business & Industrial. Corporate Social Responsibility is deeply ingrained in our core values. We are actively dedicated to enriching the quality of life within every community where we have a presence.
Our Heritage
1955 - 1990s
1955: ES-KO is founded and specializes in on-board catering services to the shipping industry.
1974: Management of one of the world’s largest logistical and catering contracts of that time: “Trans Gabonese Railway” in Gabon.
1988: First U.N. food supply, warehousing, and distribution contract to support 8,000 multinational troops in Namibia (U.N.T.A.G.).
2000s
The company expands in its provision of services with a new typology of clients and services, acquiring large contracts for United Nations Peacekeeping missions, NATO and Governmental agencies.
2003-07: Major UN Contracts for Provision of Food rations and Logistical Support Services in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Cyprus, Sudan, Western Sahara, Lebanon and Timor-Leste
2010s - 2020s
ES-KO is increasingly involved in an expansion into new business and market sectors, also with an important campaign of company acquisitions and strategic partnerships.
ES-KO expands to serve the Energy and Business & Industrial sector, and in new geographical areas supporting and increasing range of operations.
ES-KO today
Emerging from the pandemic as a stronger business, ES-KO is proud to have maintained its commitment to its client. Now, in its seventh decade, ES-KO continues to evolve and grow, resilient as ever, while learning from its past.
Our Mission
ES-KO aims to be the provider of reference in logistical, catering and support services freight forwarding solutions, specializing in food and maritime industry and living infrastructures. ES-KO delivers turnkey and tailored products, services and solutions to support our customers and their staff in challenging and remote locations. We identify success in the trust earned through consistency of our products, excellence in customer service and expressed in strong and long-term business relationships.
Our Vision
Providing value added flexible and innovative solutions to earn the loyalty of our customers with a special awareness to the environment, local communities and sustainability. We aim to develop into more market sectors and expand our range of services to include risk management. We aim to develop into more market sectors and expand our range of services to include risk management. We seek to achieve controlled growth, organically and through acquisitions and partnerships, so encouraging the development of our people all the while creating value in our industry. The Group will remain family owned to ensure stability over the medium term.
Our Culture
We are an entrepreneurial culture that is fast moving and focused on providing innovative solutions through a combination of creativity, experience and technology. We are characterized by qualified and passionate people taking responsibility, collaborating as a team of equals who learn from experiences in an open manner and who adapt to change and disruption to deliver the service. We are the people to trust in difficult times.
Our Values
We are passionate about our uncompromising values, which are based on quality, health and safety, sustainability, trust and honesty. We operate in all respects with a meritocratic culture and in line with a strict code of conduct.
Why Choose Us?
Team
ES-KO is a unique, passionate, and hard-working team whose aim is to serve its customers, efficiently and always with a smile.
Experience
We have long experience and have acquired a unique insight into delivering services and products into remote and demanding worldwide locations.
Innovation
Our expert procurement methodologies, and contract and programme management is continuously improved – we always believe that we can do better.
Quality
ES-KO is your value-added partner, with an impassioned and knowledgeable team that provides quality services, using best practices in quality, health and safety, and risk management.
Flexibility
We have a flexible system of services that can be rapidly, and cost competitively mobilized with the guarantee that performance will be on time and qualitatively managed.
