Fuatino’s Natural Products is a family business. Our grandmother bore the name “Fuatino” and handed down to Gabrielle. Our mission as a family is to use Fuatino’s to create a better and healthier world. As part of our values to Lead and to Nurture our Fuatino’s family with the ultimate product of love.
Our goal is to bring you a high-quality health product with a simple story that cuts through the noise, helps improve your family’s healthy lifestyle, and increases exports from Samoa so that we can support the prosperity of our farmers and staff by paying beyond fair trade prices at every opportunity.
GABRIELLE FUATINO APELU
Having inherited her middle name from her family (her grandmother), Gabrielle embodies the spirit of Fuatino’s. Gabrielle is a 3 x time Gold Medalist, a Quadruple International for Samoa in the Sports of Rugby League, Tag Rugby, Rugby Union and Touch Rugby. Gabrielle is a Leadership and Sports Consultant and a Gender Champion. She bears the marks of her lineage – the malu – which literally translates “to protect”, Gabrielle is a Samoa product from grassroots to elite and as a Managing Director, she brings her fighting spirit to oversee the factory operations and product development and manages the company’s brand to ensure the integrity of her family and people’s heritage.
LAKI UAEA APELU
Laki Uaea Apelu is the engineering and export brains of our business (also Gabrielle’s father). With his degree in engineering and 30 years’ experience in working with and exporting not only coconuts but also taro, yams, bananas and other various agricultural produce not only from Samoa but also Africa, South America and Malaysia, he is the best Product Manager we could ask for to turn ideas and concepts into reality. A self named Nutologist, Laki is the sounding board that resonates wisdom and guidance within our family.
CALLUM JONES
Callum has been in the Fuatino family since 2007 when he first fell for Gabrielle. Together, they started Fuatino’s Natural Products in 2009, building on Callum’s advanced holistic health and wellness education from the C.H.E.K. Institute. Deeply passionate about healthy nutrition, Callum is committed to making a product that is as clean as possible and one that he can proudly serve to his family and to customers around the world. It is no wonder then that he focuses on product development and sales, overseeing all key health aspects of our oil.
