§Handmade  §Sustainable  §Fair Trade  §Not Tested on Animals  

Arun Thai Natural™ is a registered trademark owned by a private Thai company, Vitality
Zone Co., Ltd, which is owned by Krittanan Marit (known as Nui by friends and family) and Marike van Breugel, his Dutch-born-Australian-raised-now-Thai- resident wife. The same blend of East meets West can be seen in their gorgeous little daughter, Kawisaraa, (nicknamed “Nong Ploi” as per local custom). Unlike most Thai family businesses, our company is fully registered with all the relevant Thai government offices, which ensures rapid customs exit procedures for goods as they leave Thailand and minimum import duty for our customers.	“Nong Ploi loves to visit her Papa at the Sunday Tapae Market.”
Because we are registered for VAT and employ all our staff legally, we are proudly transparent and quite happy to provide detailed receipts, invoices and the relevant paperwork that makes it all so much easier for our international customers. We are able to supply the documentation required for importation into countries like France and Japan, and are also able to meet all the requirements for goods to be imported tax free under Free Trade Agreements.

“Naa, our Arun Thai Production Manager, hard at work.”

“The possibility of integrating life and family and work with sunshine, laughter, ancient traditions and spirituality was actually why I came to live in Thailand”, says Marike. “And that is tangibly reflected in Arun Thai Natural”. “I am proud that the things my parents and grand-parents have known all their lives in their small Thai village and which Thai people think are nothing special are so interesting to Western people”, says Nui.

Family business means different things to different people. To us it means care for the people who work for us – whether it is one of our suppliers or a Burmese refugee who works in our packing room. Our family business supports other extended family business, like our herb-growing farmers in Chiang Dao.

“Family business” means we all have to be flexible and work hard when orders have to be finished for shipping deadlines – and that we relax and laugh together when they’re done, when there are special holidays or Buddhist festivals or just to pick the enormous 15kg jackfruit hanging in the tree out the front that is threatening to fall through the roof just as the rainy season starts. And “family business” for us means “Fair Trade” in every sense of the word – that all the people that are part of our supply and production chain are fairly paid and able to support and sustain their own families.

“Marike and Ploi having a fun, reconnecting moment.”