BUSINESS

2017 Success Stories

Celebrating this year’s top five company profiles

In our final edition of the year we take a look back over some

of 2017’s biggest and most successful company profiles

At Africa Outlook we take pride in celebrating ingenuity within companies and this year has been no different, providing us with a plethora of exceptional teams - across a wide range of industries - to showcase to our readers.

This year’s top profiles have reached out to every industrial corner, including construction, food & drink, agriculture and energy & utilities, with each company demonstrating unbending dedication to their industry.

In the last edition of 2017, we celebrate some of the best and brightest companies that we have had the pleasure of working with, including Kenya Electricity Generating Company, Mombasa Cement, PW Ghana, Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company Ghana and Flamingo Horticulture.

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KENGEN)

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KENGEN) is leading the power generator sector in Kenya, boasting an immense market share of 70 percent of the electricity capacity installed in the country.

“Our business is to deliver both affordable and clean energy, while making the investments needed to ensure a sustainable future in the market,” explains Albert Mugo, Managing Director at KENGEN. “Over the years our Company has made massive investments and grown its renewable energy portfolio to 88 percent - further reducing Kenya’s carbon footprint which enabled the country to attain a clean energy generation.”

As part of the Company’s renewable strategy, its next pipeline project is 100 percent renewable, with the target aspiration of 2,500MW by

2025; comprised of 1,400MW from the current pipeline projects and 1,100 from new projects.

The Company’s 10-year transformation strategy of evolving from good to great through purely sustainable usage will remain KENGEN’s guiding philosophy. With the goal to stabilise

and create sustainable power supply for Kenya, this will constantly be monitored and revamped as the Company grows and projects open up.

Mombasa Cement

Headquartered in Mombasa, Kenya, the Company’s almost unrivalled acumen in manufacturing and marketing quality cement at affordable prices has taken the business to the very top of its field over the past 10 years, but while its products’ quality speaks for itself, it is actually the internal principles of the business that continue to set MCL apart.

Bound by principles, bound by technology, bound by innovation, bound by brand identity, and bound by excellence; the business can celebrate a decade of development as one of East Africa’s top cement manufacturers.

Recent strives for innovation have included the testing and development of 52.5MPa grade cement, also known as KP Platinum.

Not only does this represent the latest in a long line of continuous improvement strategies for MCL’s product range, but it also serves as the latest significant milestone in the overall rise to prominence over a relatively short space of time.

PW Ghana

Like many companies in the industry, PW Ghana’s first foray into openpit mining remains a cherished memory having driven the Company’s expansion in contract mining at Obotan Gold Mine for Resolute

Mining.

As a testament to its longevity and reputation in the market, the Company secured the contract mining work on the same mine when it was reopened almost two decades later.

PW Ghana is one of a selection of companies operating within the PW Mining brand, a Company that started out as a privately owned entity originally incorporated in 1948. Less than 20 years later the PW brand had expanded massively, allowing for the development of new branches that would eventually lead to the creation of PW Ghana in 1995.

Over the years PW Ghana has been able to achieve maintainable and steady growth, a factor that it attributes to continuous investments in new equipment, modern techniques and the engagement and training of quality personnel.

It is incredibly important to the Company both for its values and to its success that it delivers top-class value and service to clients, providing them with value for money, quality workmanship which is safely executed and the completion of contracts in good time.

Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company Ghana

As a bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company, the world’s largest beverage company which owns some of the world’s most famous brands, including 20 brands in the billion dollar league, it should come as no surprise that Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company (ECCBC) continues to thrive across North and West Africa; more so, given its devotion to wider social enrichment that is now catching the eye of the continent.

The business has flourished over the years through the production, sale and distribution of some of Coca-Cola’s world favourite non-alcoholic beverage brands. This penetration into African communities, however, has been far more than thirst-based on a local level; as is epitomised by The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana Limited.

Continuously monitoring industry, consumer and social trends has been a trademark for ECCBC as changing preferences and emerging competition has been responded to in order to keep ahead of the curve across all product categories. Its presence in the still beverage market is a great example of this as the company looks to remain competitive and relevant to consumers while protecting its own market share through a diversification of its portfolio.

Flamingo Horticulture

Starting in 1982 in Nairobi, Kenya as Homegrown - a horticultural business that was set up to exploit the benefits of the country’s equatorial position - Flamingo Horticulture Ltd has flourished over the past 25 years to become a world-class vertically integrated entity.

Also leveraging Kenya’s strong heritage in the sector as well as its populous make-up, the business began back then in the vegetable and fruit production domain across Homegrown’s own farms, as well as with small-scale Kenyan farmers. In 1989, Homegrown also ventured into the production of flowers, setting the tone for the multi-faceted portfolio that today’s Flamingo Horticulture is reputed for.

With a present day reputation as a leader across process innovation, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and farm practice parameters, Flamingo’s success is owed to a culture of continuous improvement, drive and ambition [with the latter] being not just a key customer requirement, but also crucial to the development of the Company in-house.

Flamingo Horticulture’s overall farming footprint at present naturally lends itself to geographical footprint growth and sustainable progression into the future which, in turn, lends itself to an ever-broadening customer base as well.

‘This year’s top profiles have reached out to every industrial corner, including construction, food & drink, agriculture and energy & utilities, with each company demonstrating unbending dedication to their industry’