Tropicshells

Our grandfather started  to export haitian  commodities in the first half  of the 20 th century, in the city of Gonaive, Haiti.  In the mid-50's, when my father and uncle took over the company; the business was moved to the capital city of Port-au-Prince as Thomas Brothers.  We exported,  rock crabs, hard wood, white wood, tamarinds, seashells and corals, sisals, mauby bark , ginger, shark fins and teeth and many other products worldwide.

Today, the business is family owned & operated. The same traditions and legacy of our world class services and quality products are continuing under our new company name Tropics Shells and Gifts, Inc.  We export our comodities around the world. Our production and manufacturing facility is located in Haiti, and sales distribution operation in Miami, Florida and the Dominican Republic.

In 1994, we started to manufacture our own liquid bleach on premises, to clean the sea shells. We have bleached countless metric tons of sea shells, and still bleaching. By 1997, we opened sales and distributions facilities in Miami, FL. In 2001, we started the distribution of salt water fish, live rocks and marine crabs. By 2002, we added a separate department to process and export mauby bark, cerassee and other Caribbean roots and herbs used to make drinks and tea. In 2003 we added the land hermit crabs as our exotic pet line. In 2006, we opened our new shell painting department and offer custom designs to our clients.

We import and export worldwide, as well as distribute in the USA world class marine and Caribbean products. Mainly, we sell land  hermit crabs, sea shells, salt water aquarium fish, live rock, sugar white beach sand, maubi bark and cerassee.

Our purpose & mission:

Our customers are the reason  for being in business. We are committed to provide  world class products and services to  them, at the most competitive price. We also value our indispensable staff, whom , continually work harder to make all of this possible.