Collins Higgins Commodities
About Collins Higgins Commodities

About Us

CHC was registered as a PMA (Foreign Owned Entity) in Indonesia in 2014. We have been researching and trading Indonesian cassia since 2017. We are not spice brokers. We manage the entire supply chain with our team on the ground. Our head office is located in Bali. Our quality, sustainability and traceability teams are located in the heart of Indonesian cassia production in Kerinci on the island of Sumatra. Our buyin team and laboratory are located in Padang, Sumatra. Our receivals and processing team are located in Medan where we process and export from.

PMA is an acronym for 'Penanaman Modal Asing'. A PMA is a company in Indonesia which either has partial or complete ownership by foreigners.

History

The company was registered as PMA in Indonesia in 2014 as PT Collins Higgins Consulting. The focus at that time was conduction value chain studies and managing and performing research and development projects for the Australian Centre for International Agricultur Research and private sector multinational agricultural commodity buyers. In 2022, the company changed its name to Collins Higgins Commodities to reflect the transition to a science based commodity sourcing and rural community development company.

If you're interested to read how CHC evolved in Indonesia, read here

The company was registered as a PMA (Foreign Owned Company) in Indonesia as PT. Collins Higgins Consulting. Head office is located in Bali.
Collins Higgins Consulting (CHC) was contracted to lead research into 11 agricultural commodity value chains across Indonesia by the Australian Centre for International Research (ACIAR) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The research informed the $110m agricultural development project PRISMA.
ACIAR contracts CHC to test the best digital technologies for collecting data for agrucultural research.
McCormick Global Ingredients Limited engages CHC to conduct a series of studies into Cinnamomum burmannii on the island of Sumatra.
CHC sources its first commercial quantity of raw material Indonesian cassia.
CHC establishes a distillation lab in Padang for measuring cinnamon VO & MC.
CHC establishes offices in Kerinci (cinnamon source) and Padang.
CHC became the first certified farm management system for cinnamon globally.
CHC's farm management groups supply the first FSA verified cinnamon in the world.
CHC partners with NCBA Clusa and McCormick to deliver the Indonesia Spice Trade Alliance (cinnamon).
CHC continues to certify farmers to FSA.
CHC expands its capacity to source up to 200 tonne per month of FSA cinnamon + 150 tonne per month conventional from its supplier base.
CHC partners with McCormick to deliver a Women’s Empowerment community engagement project in Jambi province, training women in business and financial management with the output being six women establishing cassia nurseries.
CHC commences exporting broken and clean Indonesian cassia.
CHC changes its name to Collins Higgins Commodities to reflect the complete transition to a science based commodity sourcing and exporting company.
CHC partners with NCBA Clusa and McCormick to deliver the Indonesia Spice Trade Alliance (cinnamon).
PT CHC expands its Women’s Empowerment work to West Sumatra. A further nine nurseries run by women or groups of women are established in this region.
CHC expands its broken cinnamon processing capacity by acquiring a factory in Medan.
CHC triples the size of its broken cinnamon factory in Medan and expands into another factory producing stick cinnamon.
CHC establishes a cacao husk supply chain and begins exporting husk from its factory in Medan.
CHC wins the 2025 FSA Growing a Better Planet Award for sustainable farming leadership.
CHC successfully passed the BRCGS audit (B) for both the broken cinnamon, cacao husk and stick cinnamon factories in Medan.
Indonesian cinnamon forest