THE COMPANY: Unilever CI is the leading manufacturer of household cleaning products, personal and dental hygiene, and food products in Côte d’Ivoire. In December 2008 Unilever CI divested its oil activity to SIFCA Group and acquired Cosmivoire’s (SIFCA Group) soap activities to refocus its business portfolio on the production and...
THE COMPANY: Ecobank Transnational Incorporated is a pan-African bank, founded in 1985 in Togo, which operates in 36 African countries via six regional clusters, including Nigeria, francophone West Africa (nine countries including Côte d’Ivoire), the rest of West Africa (five...
Host to francophone West Africa’s regional stock exchange, the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), Côte d’Ivoire has a more sophisticated financial services industry than most of its peers in the region, with an impressive geographic catchment area. The sixth-largest of Africa’s 29 exchanges by capitalisation, the BRVM has seen the...
THE COMPANY: Bolloré Africa Logistics CI is one of the major players in the transport, handling and logistics sector, offering air, road, sea and rail transportation services. In April 2009 the group management decided to change the company’s name from SDV-SAGA to Bolloré Africa...
A heavyweight within the West African Economic and Monetary Union (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine, UEMOA), accounting for 35% of the eight-member region’s GDP, Côte d’Ivoire’s growth is a bellwether for Francophone West Africa. Driven by rising public spending and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure projects,...
While Côte d’Ivoire has a natural advantage in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine, UEMOA), with the region’s largest market and most developed infrastructure, authorities are striving to improve the country’s soft infrastructure to improve rankings in international investment climate...
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