Lapersonne Wool Brokers
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History
The Lapersonne family’s ties to the wool trade:
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Joseph Lapersonne
Arrived from France in 1923 to establish Provost Lefebvre, a wool buying firm based in East London.
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Jo Lapersonne
Worked in the wool industry for many years as a buyer for ADF.
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Jack Lapersonne
Worked as a wool buyer for Lohmann & Co which became Standard Wool until retirement in 1997.
In 1999 Jack started a brokering company called SBL (Saunders, Bruce & Lapersonne) with two other colleagues, Jimmy Bruce and Billy Saunders. Together they came up with and started the capped commission structure that Lapersonne Wool still uses to this day. He worked up until 2010 and retired at the age of 80 years old.
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PRESENT DAY
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John Lapersonne
Developed our farm outside Port Elizabeth where I farmed for 27 years.
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Then took over as part of SBL from my father Jack Lapersonne in 2010.
In 2012 I broke away and established my own brokering firm, Lapersonne Wool (Pty) Ltd.
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Robert Lapersonne
Attended Woodridge College, matriculated in 2015 and then went on to study agriculture at Grootfontein Agricultural College.
After completing his diploma he continued at Free State University to obtain his B Agric degree.
He then managed a farm in the Kokstad area for 18 months.
He joined the family business in 2022 to continue the family legacy in the wool trade.
