THE COMPANY: Established in Côte d’Ivoire approximately 60 years ago, Société de Limonaderies et Brasseries d’Afrique (Solibra) produces and markets beers, soft drinks and mineral water. Solibra, which is part of Castel Group, has four production sites – two plants in Yopougon, one in Bouaflé and...
THE COMPANY: Société Générale de Banques en Côte d’Ivoire (SGBCI), the largest bank in the West African Economic and Monetary Union, was created in 1962 from the local branches of France’s Société Générale with the participation of the government and several international financial partners.
THE COMPANY: Established in 1956, SIFCA Group took over Société Africaine de Plantations d’Hévéas (SAPH) through its subsidiaries OMNIPAR and SIPH in 1999. The rubber industry leader in Africa, SAPH has a production capacity of 180,000 tonnes per year and five main integrated farm units located in...
From the Arab Maghreb Union in the north to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) at the other end of the continent, the African Union recognises eight regional economic communities. UEMOA, of which Côte d’Ivoire is a founding member, is one of the continent’s more institutionally integrated unions, with member states sharing a...
Several reforms over the past two years are helping to pave the way for greater liquidity on the Abidjan-based Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM)The bourse has seen its market capitalisation more than double since 2012, but as with many emerging and frontier markets, trading is low and the exchange is dominated by “sit and hold”...
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