Dairy products supplier Arla Foods has set up a new sales and packaging facility in Accra, Ghana. Arla, owned by 11,200 farmers, is planning to expand its business in Sub-Saharan Africa by selling its products including powdered milk ...
Tags: Dairy products, Packaging
Nestle is planing to revamp its Maggi brand in the next three years to offer tastier and healthier choices for consumers. The move is part of the new Maggi Simply Good initiative, which includes lowering salt content in the Maggi range, ...
Tags: Nestle, vegetables
Moringa-based products maker Kuli Kuli has secured a $4.25m investment from Kellogg Company's venture capital fund eighteen94 capital in a Series A funding round. InvestEco and S2G Ventures were the other institutional investors featuring ...
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The cocoa & chocolate business of Cargill has set up its own licensed buying company (LBC) after securing a licence from the Ghanaian Cocoa Board (Cocobod). The new LBC has started operations and Cargill purchased its initial consignment ...
Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei Saturday launched an Innovation and Experience (I&E) center in Lagos, Nigeria's economic hub with an investment of six million U.S. dollars. The center, being the first in West Africa, is set up to ...
Tags: Huawei, Consumer Electronics
Taking place in Lagos, Nigeria, from 20 - 22 September 2016, the event will mark the debut of Sidel in the West African version of the show and is part of its commitment to supporting beverage producers in Nigeria and neighbouring ...
Tags: Sidel, beverage producers
Frigoglass SAIC announces audited results for the quarter and six months ended 30 June 2016. Second Quarter 2016 Highlights Sustained recovery in West Europe (+27% y-o-y) driven by ICOOL’s penetration in Coca-Cola bottlersOngoing ...
Tags: Frigoglass SAIC, beer market, Glass business
Denmark-based dairy company Arla Foods has opened a new milk powder production facility in Dakar, Senegal, to further its expansion in West Africa. The new plant, which was inaugurated on 17 May, has an annual capacity of 5,000 tons of ...
Tags: Arla Foods, Milk Powder
China on Wednesday hailed the announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday declaring the end of Ebola virus transmission in the Republic of Guinea. "This is a big victory in the fight against Ebola in West Africa. We ...
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China's leading rail producer, the China Railway Construction Corporation, has signed agreements with the west African countries of Senegal and Mali to renovate a rail line linking the two countries. The project itself is worth around 2.7 ...
Tags: CRCC, West Africa Rail Line
Some polymer traders in China are re-exporting their spot imported LDPE and LLDPE cargoes in a bid to clear inventory in the face of weak domestic demand, sources said Wednesday. This is an unusual practice because China usually absorbs ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a few days ago that China would provide the 5th-round emergency aid to African countries to fight against Ebola. On November 4, the Official of the Department of Foreign Assistance made a comment on ...
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On the occasion of Philips’ sixth consecutive Cape Town to Cairo roadshow, Philips today unveiled the newly illuminated National Theatre of Ghana. Philips, the global leader in lighting, has provided the theatre with a stunning ...
Tags: Philips, LED Lighting, LED illumination
Long Range 1 tanker rates are soaring in Europe as vessels are delayed due to high storage levels in Europe, and the busy naphtha arbitrage to the East is rapidly eating into the available tonnage. LR1 rates on the Northwest Europe to ...
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In 2014, in the face of complex and volatile domestic and international trends, China’s foreign investment and cooperation maintained steady and rapid development and became a highlight of foreign trade and economic cooperation. In ...
Tags: Foreign Investment and Cooperation, Steady and Rapid Development