WESTERN/NORTHERN AFRICA INSIGHTS EXPANSION
EXPANSION
GIL to expand Ndola edible oil plant
Alpha Omega Dairy to double milk production
ZAMBIA - A Ndola-based food-processing company is expanding its edible oil facility with an additional US$40-million multioilseed-crushing plant. Global Industries Limited (GIL), which has been operational in Zambia since 2010, will set up the 1,000-metric-tonneper-day plant in Ndola to process edible oil from soybean, sunflower and cotton seed. GIL supervisor Devender Kumar said the machinery for the processing facility will be coming into the country soon and the plant will be operational in April 2015. Mr Kumar said the oilseed-crushing plant is expected to create 300 jobs to add to the existing 500 workers at its factory in Ndola which produces Rena and Champion edible oil brands from imported palm oil. According to Mr Kumar, the board of directors have also decided to complete the backward integration by getting in the oil seed farming project, Global Plantation Limited (GPL) in Lufwanyama district. NEW PRODUCT
Parmalat unveils K5 billion milk powder plant ZAMBIA - Parmalat Zambia Limited has commissioned a new five billion kwacha milk powder plant at its Mungwi road premises in Lusaka. Speaking during the commissioning of the plant in Lusaka Parmalat Zambia Managing Director Mike Mallet says the investment in the new milk powder plant will see the company grow its business and help create jobs. Mr. Mallet explains that the decision to set up the milk powder factory plant is aimed at producing for the region under bonded facility for exports. He says this will include the production of milk powdered sachets with identified markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Mozambique. – Lusaka Voice
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ZIMBABWE - Alpha Omega Dairy will in the next few months double milk production from the current 22 000 litres a day, an official said on Friday. “We are expecting to double milk production in two ways; one we are breeding the current herd that we have and additionally we are going to import in calf heifers from across the borders of Zimbabwe,” group general manager
Stanley Nhari has said. Currently Alpha Omega Dairy is producing raw milk on a daily basis of around 22 000 litres from 1 000 cows. “But that is not sufficient for us. We need more milk because our products are in big demand countrywide. We were contemplating exporting our products but we would like to satisfy the local market first,” Mr Nhari said - New Ziana
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Nampak acquires Hunyani, merges Zim units ZIMBABWE – South Africa-based packaging supplier Nampak has wholly acquire Zimbabwe Stock Exchangelisted packaging firm Hunyani Holdings (Hunyani) and merged it with two other local units in a share swap deal. The Johannesburg Securities Exchange-listed group – already holding a 38.6% stake in Hunyani – has merged the unit with dormant CarnaudMetalbox Zimbabwe Limited (CarnaudMetalbox) and MegaPak Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (MegaPak), in which it has a 49 percent shareholding. Delta Corporation – about 22 percent owned by SABMiller – holds the other 51 percent in MegaPak. The new unit is has been named Nampak Zimbabwe Limited. The deal is based on the acquisition
of the entire issued share capital of CarnaudMetalbox and MegaPak in exchange for the issue of new shares in Hunyani to both companies’ respective shareholders. Incorporated in Zimbabwe in 1951, Hunyani’s diverse range of products includes folding and corrugated cartons, flexible packaging, sacks, bags and labels. According to Nampak, the three companies were deconsolidated in 2007 as Nampak had lost control over the companies due to the threat of indigenisation, price controls and restrictions on the repatriation of funds from these entities to their holding companies outside Zimbabwe – Daily News.
EXPANSION
Distell’s stake in Kenyan business signals accelerated path in Africa SOUTH AFRICA – Africa’s largest producer of wines, spirits and ciders and ready to drinks, The Distell Group, has acquired a 26% stake in KWA Holding East Africa Limited (KHEAL), Kenya’s foremost spirits manufacturer, bottler and distributor. According to the CEO of Distel, Richard Rushton, the KSH 860 million deal would give Distell access to the market for several leading brands. “We are thrilled with our latest investment which comes at a time when the economic prospects across East Africa are highly promising,” said Rushton. The acquisition is Distell’s latest in
a series of strategic direct investments on the African continent. Last month, the company unveiled a bottling plant in Accra, Ghana. It has also secured land in Nigeria and Angola for manufacturing plants, scheduled to come on stream next year. Distell’s relationship with the Nairobi-based KHEAL dates back to 1998. Since then KHEAL has been producing, bottling and distributing several Distell spirits brands. The company produces and bottles Viceroy Brandy, Clubman Punch, Castle Brand Aperitif and distributes these along with Amarula, Drostdy-Hof and Cellar Cask, amongst others. foodbusinessafrica.com