Altus Procure was founded in 1994 in Zürich, by a former United Nations logistics officer and a Geneva-trained commodities lawyer. We have remained, by deliberate choice, family-stewarded and privately held.
That the institutions on which civic life depends — public hospitals, national grids, ports, ministries of defense — require a procurement partner that is faster than its bureaucracy, calmer than its press corps, and quieter than its own name.
For thirty-one years we have done exactly that, for clients in sixty-four jurisdictions, without a single billboard, conference panel, or paid advertisement. We are introduced, never marketed.
Bahnhofstrasse 12 · Zürich · est. 1994
Most of our mandates never appear in any public registry — and that is, frequently, the deliverable our clients value most. We are bound by Swiss banking-grade confidentiality and we treat it as a craft, not a clause.
Our median mandate-intake is eleven days because every officer carries decades of category memory, not because we skip diligence. We compress timelines by being prepared, not by being permissive.
Every counterparty is screened against OFAC, EU, UN, UK and Swiss SECO sanctions registers and our own proprietary network of due-diligence partners on four continents. We refuse mandates we cannot defend.
Because we will not be sold, we make decisions on twenty-year horizons. We have walked away from very large mandates because the relationship was wrong. We have also extended very small ones for decades, because they were right.
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