About us

Our Story

From trading to connecting

Led by founder Hermann Karl Dittrich, Ambarazul, LLC was established in Delaware, USA, in 2007, with its administrative office in the Dominican Republic. But the experience behind the company goes back considerably further.

It began in Munich in 1985 with Contactos Trading GmbH. Working internationally and representing the Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade in Europe taught us something that would remain important over the years: business often depends less on what you have than on knowing how to bring the right people together.

When Ambarazul was established, our main business was very different. We exported Dominican blue amber. Being based in the Dominican Republic gave us direct access to the source, while our earlier international experience gave us customers abroad.

Then something interesting happened.

Customers began asking us for more than amber. They needed information, introductions, suppliers and contacts in the Caribbean. We were here, we knew people, and quite often we could help.

Ambarazul gradually became a networker.

That same network took us in directions we hadn’t necessarily planned at the beginning. International contacts with collectors and clients led to fine art and eventually to AmbarAzulArt, our art intermediary activity. Hermann Karl Dittrich is an international art intermediary whose activities include discreet, completed placements of artworks in private collections, working with owners, collectors and associated agents. His activities include AmbarAzulArt and FabeloArt.

Our own involvement in publishing led somewhere else. Working with publications serving different countries, languages and audiences showed us how cumbersome exchanging and adapting stories could be. That eventually became CaribPubsPro, our publisher-to-publisher network for sharing stories while preserving their source, authorship and editorial control.

Amber, art and publishing may seem like rather different businesses.

For us, there has always been a common thread: connections. Finding the right person, bringing people together and making those connections useful is what Ambarazul has gradually become.