Horn of Africa: Guul Group to assist with Asoko Insight digital DealRoom

Posted on March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 by admin

Somalilandsun:”Asoko Insight is facilitating a deal room for the Department of International Trade (DIT) of the UK government to put African companies in touch with British investors.

The digital DealRoom will take advantage of Asoko’s unique data acquisition model and unrivalled corporate database of over 100,000 private African companies to support the UK’s partnership with Africa to build a secure and prosperous future for all our citizens.

This digital deal room launched at the UK-Africa Investment Summit. You may read more about Asoko’s partnership with DIT here: https://www.africa-newsroom.com/press/asoko-launches-department-for-international-trade-dit-dealroom-at-the-forthcoming-ukafrica-investment-summit?lang=en read more

A guide in Africa

Posted on March 1, 2013 by admin

Why investors in frontier markets need someone to show them around

CARDBOARD BOXES are not sexy. But they are useful: imagine trying to shift a lorryload of eggs from farm to shop without packaging. Because boxes make it easier to move things around, they allow shops to stock a wider variety of goods at lower prices. So to run a cardboard-box factory in Africa is to put more and better food on African plates.

The Riley Packaging plant in Uganda is quite a sight. From wall to wall and floor to ceiling, it is crammed with vast rolls of paper. A visitor feels like an ant gazing at stacks of toilet rolls. A management consultant might ask: why does Riley need to keep so much inventory—three months’ worth—heaped idly on the floor? Surely there are better uses for the firm’s capital? read more