37 result(s) for “Grande distribution”
La Guinéenne de Prestation et de Construction Groupe, Ecobank Guinée and the Société Financière Internationale have sealed, on the sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum 2026, a structuring financing agreement of 40 million US dollars. A strong signal sent to investors about the potential of the Guinean private sector.
Member of Parliament for the Gbon-Kolia-Sianhala constituency and CEO of the company N Group, Nabil Nouho Ballo has added a new string to his entrepreneurial bow with N Plastics, a 100% Ivorian industrial unit dedicated to the production of plastic packaging. An initiative which illustrates the rise of a strategic sect...
Vanessa Kuyo did not choose an easy sector. In a world long dominated by men, she has charted her own pipeline, literally and figuratively. Boss of Kuyo Pipeline, she today embodies one of the most striking figures of emerging African capitalism, that of a woman who dared to invest fully where few were looking.
The Canadian mining company Awalé Resources, supported by the global giant Newmont, formalized in early May 2026 a promising gold discovery on its Odienné project, in the north-west of Côte d'Ivoire. An announcement which further strengthens the status of a major mining power in the country.
The company Poro Power 1 SA has completed a historic fundraising of 42.65 billion FCFA (65 million euros) to finance the future largest private solar power plant in Côte d'Ivoire. Carried exclusively by African entrepreneurs and investors, this unprecedented operation in the UEMOA zone marks a decisive turning point in...
Drawing on lessons learned from three successive planning cycles, the Ivorian Government under the Presidency of H.E Alassane OUATTARA is launching its fourth National Development Plan (PND), the most ambitious in its contemporary history. With a colossal envelope of 114,838.5 billion FCFA, Abidjan intends to raise the...
Launched in 2010 in the wake of West African agro-industry, Africa West Industries (AWI) has established itself in 15 years as one of the flagships of Côte d'Ivoire's manufacturing industry. Specializing in the production of Marseille soaps and edible vegetable oil, this 100% Ivorian company, with more than 400 employe...
About thirty kilometers from Abidjan, the Akoupé-Zeudji PK24 industrial zone (ZI) stands out as a strategic lever for industrialization in Côte d’Ivoire. Designed to relieve congestion in old areas and attract structuring investments, it embodies a new generation of modern, sustainable and competitive industrial spaces...
From resilience in the face of the pandemic to sustained industrial growth, Côte d'Ivoire has transformed its secondary sector into a real economic locomotive between 2020 and 2025. An impressive record (increased productivity, local integration and better oriented exports). However, structural challenges remain and ta...
In the 1990s, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank exercised unprecedented control over the Ivorian economy and politics. Between imposed remedies and deep social fractures, the results of this decade remain, even today, a subject of controversy.
From the recession inherited from the 1980s to the fragile hope of recovery, the Ivorian industry went through, between 1990 and 1993, one of the most trying periods in its history. Under pressure from the Bretton Woods institutions and the leadership of a technocratic Prime Minister, Alassane Ouattara, the country's i...
After two decades of an “Ivorian miracle” driven by industrial growth of 9% per year, Ivory Coast entered the 1980s like a colossus with feet of clay. In the space of ten years, the industrial sector, which had been the pride of the country, collapsed under the combination of a global crisis, an economic model on its l...