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Agri-food industry

02/12/2019 at 17h01, by Aurelie Benoit

Côte d’Ivoire: Dekel Agri-Vision (formerly Dekel Oil) diversifies and launches a hybrid power project ($61m)

One of Côte d’Ivoire’s leading palm oil producers in is partnering with Swiss group Green Enesys to...

Agribusiness

28/11/2019 at 16h41, by Africa Business+

The Rise Fund (Mo Ibrahim, Richard Branson, Bono et al) invests in Uganda’s Pearl Dairy

The impact investment fund managed by TPG Growth closes its second transaction in the dairy produce...

Agri-food industry

27/11/2019 at 17h04, by Africa Business+

Senegal: poultry feed producer Avisen invests in an abattoir

Franco-Senegalese company Avisen has invested around CFA francs 1bn ($1.65m) of equity capital to build...

Agri-food industry

27/11/2019 at 17h01, by Gaëlle Arenson

Jean Christophe Figueroa takes up the reins at Malteries Soufflet

The French agrifood group present in 19 countries with revenue of €4.8bn ($5.28bn) in 2018 has recently...

Agribusiness

15/11/2019 at 17h31, by Aurelie Benoit

IFC’s new helping hand for the Chaouni family (Zalar)

The corporation is studying a $24m package for Zalar Agri, the fruit and nut subsidiary of Moroccan...

Agribusiness

06/11/2019 at 17h53, by Mathieu Galtier

Tunisia: dissension at Poulina between Slim Ben Ayed, the founder’s son, and Khaled Bouricha, Chairman of the Board

Seven months after the death of Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed, the founder of Poulina Group Holding (PGH), the...

Agri-food industry

28/10/2019 at 14h37, by Valentin Grille

IFC supports Biaugeaud-Dijon Céréales JV’s vegetable dehydration plant in Senegal

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the International Development Association (IDA) are...

Agribusiness

07/10/2019 at 15h05, by Africa Business+

Frank Braeken facing economic and social troubles at Feronia in DRC

Congolese born Belgian Frank Braeken, Feronia’s Executive Chairman since 2016 and a former Unilever...

Agribusiness

04/10/2019 at 13h11, by Africa Business+

Somdiaa develops its corn milling business, starting in Congo and Cameroon

Somdiaa, via its Compagnie fermière camerounaise subsidiary, started work in September on the construction...

Agribusiness

01/10/2019 at 16h27, by Africa Business+

All change at Solevo (former LDC) in Abidjan

Several long-serving senior executives have recently left Louis Dreyfus Commodities (now Solevo) in...

Agri-food industry

30/09/2019 at 15h54, by Africa Business+

Dufil Prima Foods seeks to modernise to rival Flour Mills, Nestlé…

Two years after taking over one of the Nigerian billionaire’s subsidiaries, one of the national agri-food...

Agribusiness

24/09/2019 at 15h24, by Gaëlle Arenson

Brassivoire slashes the price of Heineken by 33% and brews locally

The joint-venture between Heineken (51%) and CFAO (49%) continues to attack the market in Côte d’Ivoire...

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