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Category: Manufacturing
Construction Boom Drives Growth for Uganda Steel Manufacturer
Population growth, infrastructure investment and rising incomes are driving the growth of Roofings, Uganda’s largest manufacturer of steel products.
Senegal Plans ‘Africa’s First’ Covid-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Plant
Senegal is taking the continent’s first step to producing Covid-19 vaccines locally by building a manufacturing plant in partnership with international financiers.
Why Africa’s Push to Make Vaccines Should Look Further Than COVID-19
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Deputy president David Mabuza, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize visiting the Aspen Pharmacare sterile manufacturing facility. Lulama Zenzile/Die Burger/Gallo Images via Getty Images Bartholomew Dicky Akanmori, University of Ghana It’s unlikely that vaccine manufacturing will offer Africa a quick fix for COVID-19. Countries on the continent are grappling with a […]
Let’s Patronize Made In Africa Products- Addo Osei
Lagos, Nigeria//-Assembly Woman of Ogbojo Electoral Area in the Adentan Municipal Assembly has called on Africans to patronize made in Africa products to provide market for entrepreneurs on the African continent.
Igbo Apprenticeship System Fuels Nigeria’s Entrepreneurs
The Igbo apprenticeship system allows young people to learn a trade and start a business. Supporters vaunt it as a Nigerian model of stakeholder capitalism On a sunny Monday morning in Yaba Market in Lagos, James Igiri brings out some cotton bedspreads, puts them on the floor in front of his shop, and cuts them […]
A Holistic Approach to Better Menstrual Health and Hygiene: Entrepreneurs in Action
For generations of girls and women, poor menstrual health and hygiene is exacerbating social and economic inequalities, negatively impacting their education, health, safety, and human development. Access to affordable and sustainable menstrual hygiene products (e.g. menstrual cloths, reusable pads, disposable pads, menstrual cups and tampons) is key to improving menstrual health and hygiene. Yet […]
Woodeck Company Ltd: An Inspiring Ghanaian Business Success Story
Accra, Ghana//-Developing and marketing a product are like left and right feet. They both have to work for the product to succeed, according to Ronald Ron Popeil, an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company, Ronco.
Ghana: Woodeck Opens Furniture Factory and Showroom at Spintex Road
Accra, Ghana//-Woodeck Company Ltd, a leading Ghanaian manufacturer and assembler of quality home and office furniture and supplier and installer of quality furniture accessories, today opened an ultramodern factory and showroom at Spintex Road in Accra.
Burkina Faso’s Cim Métal Wants to Take on Nigeria’s Dangote in Togo’s Cement Market
After the successful development of industrial activities at Cim Métal Group, CEO Inoussa Kanazoé is now tackling the Togolese market. He intends to make his move in a sector dominated by the imposing figure of the Nigerian tycoon Aliko Dangote.