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| Cameroon |
| Foods and Beverages |
| Imperial Foods is a company that produces instant noodles for the Cameroonian population. As part of the private sector and the US government’s effort to fight poverty, malnutrition and HIV/AIDS in Africa, it has been decided to introduce soy-fortified and vitamin-enriched instant noodles in the diet of Africans.Imperial Foods Company is located in the Douala free zone. |
A public-private partnership was therefore set up in the form of a new company to be created with the support and the technical know-how of USDA to carry out this project in the Central African region and beyond.
All funds for the project are private and come from the shareholders and private financiers. AMSCO was requested to assist IMPERIAL FOODS by seconding a Production Manager. The Production Manager will complete the set-up of the plant, manage production plan, maintain production equipment and train local staff. With assistance of the ATMS Foundation, worth US$81,235, the company has progressed steadily with its mission and vision.
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| Senegal |
| Foods and Beverages |
| Innscor Senegal is a restaurant and fast food chain located only in Total Fuel Stations in Dakar. Innscor originated in Zimbabwe and operates in 7 countries all over Africa, namely Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia and Uganda |
| Innscor Senegal planned to expand its business and improve the quality of its services. This required the presence of a qualified Manager to supervise the implementation of the expansion plan. The Manager in turn needed needed the support and contribution of a well trained and competent staff to effectively perform. AMSCO therefore seconded a General Manager, who is in charge of institutional operations and provides technical input to impart knowledge. |
| www.innscorafrica.com |
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| Ghana |
| Finance and Insurance |
| KEK Reinsurance, a start up and the first of its kind in Ghana, was incorporated in December 2006 and plays a leading role in the transaction of reinsurance business in the Ghana market and also in the reinsurance business of other Afro-Asian Region. The company operates from its corporate office located in the Airport Residential Area in Accra, Ghana where the majority of placements are conducted and all technical and financial accounting processes undertaken. |
| In order to achieve its growth objectives, the company recognises the need for a highly competent expertise and has requested assistance from AMSCO to fill the position of Executive Director and New Business Development Manager. KEK Reinsurance sees the need for reinsurance solutions for insurance and reinsurance companies across the West African Region and beyond and intends to exploit these regional opportunities. |
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| Senegal |
| Foods and Beverages |
| La Laiterie du Berger (LDB) is the first company in Senegal that collects, manufactures and distributes products made of high quality fresh local milk. La Laiterie du Berger was set up by Bagore Bathily, a young Franco-Senegalese veterinary surgeon, who started building this project since 2003 and finally launched activities in 2006. This is an innovative project using fresh local milk as an element of differentiation to their competitors who mainly use imported milk powder in production. |
| The role of AMSCO is to assist the company achieve its objective through the secondment of a Deputy Managing Director with expertise and experience in the food business and manufacturing sector. The Deputy Managing Director will oversee the industrial production in Richard Toll, ensure the tight control of the supply chain, the maintenance of the machinery and coordinate all administrative, accounting and management activities. LDB also required AMSCO to second them with an Industrial Production Director and a Junior Marketing Manager. AMSCO has so far seconded 2 Managers, the Deputy Managing Director and the Milk Collection and Livestock Development Director. |
| www.laiterieduberger.com |
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| Cameroon |
| Finance and Insurance |
| La Regionale d’Epargne et de Crédit is a microfinance institution which was incorporated in February 1993 as a limited company with a current share capital of 1.360 million US Dollars. This microfinance institution has grown over the years and now offers one of the largest network of branches nationwide. The headquarters is located in Yaounde, the capital city of Cameroon. |
| The position of Director of Management Control Auditing and Organization has been identified by La Regionale and AMSCO is requested to recruit and second a professional expert to hold this position for an initial period of three years. Subsequently AMSCO’s assistance will be extended to additional requirements of experts in Cameroon and in countries of expansion as the company strategic plan. AMSCO is also requested to support the training plan that will contribute in building the capacity of local staff and successfully achieve the succession plan. The ATMS Foundation also gave a grant of US$95,520 to help achieve this. |
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| Nigeria |
| Real Estate |
| Lantana Homes & Properties Ltd (LHPL), has been set up to provide property development and property management services in the South - South part of Nigeria. It acquired its operating license in December 2008, but started operations in August 2010. |
| LHPL’s value proposition will be to produce top class products and services with top quality finishing at affordable prices to its target market. This will be achieved through flexible payment plans and innovative advertising and product rollout mechanisms. AMSCO seconded a Chief Operating Offficer. |
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| Nigeria |
| Finance and Insurance |
| LAPO is pro-poor microfinance institution providing a range of financial services to over 247,000 clients in Nigeria. It traditionally provides financial services to poor female micro entrepreneurs. Female clients make up 98% of its client base. This tilt is due to the belief that women and children are more vulnerable than men and that when you empower a woman, you have empowered a family. |
| LAPO’s mission is to achieve the goal of economic empowerment of the poor through access to affordable financial services delivered in a cost effective and innovative manner. |
| www.lapo-nigeria.org |
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| Mali |
| Transportation and Warehousing |
| Linco Automobiles Sa, formerly known in our books as GARAGE LINCO Sa until 2010, started operations in June 2004 as a spare parts shop and an engineering workshop. In March 2006, the company acquired the sole distributorship for Volkswagen vehicles in Mali and needed the services of a Volkswagen specialist to ensure repair and servicing of vehicles sold on the Malian market. The Company has sole distributorship and dealership of VW vehicles and Spare Parts in Mali. It also boasts a state-of-the-art workshop that sees to the repair and servicing needs of its Clients. |
| In March 2006, the company acquired the sole distributorship for Volkswagen vehicles in Mali ann needed the services of a Volkswagen specialist to ensure repair and servicing of vehicles sold on the Malian market. To solve this problem, implement their expansion program, develop their staff skills and sustainably retain dealership in Mali, the promoters of Linco Automobiles approached AMSCO for the recruitment and secondment of a Volkwagen engine specialist. In response to other needs AMSCO seconded 3 managers in the positions of Technical Director, Warehouse Manager and Workshop Manager. As of 2011, there is only one active Manager- the Workshop manager. The ATMS Foundation provided a grant of $ 61,864 to Linco. |
| www.lincoautomobile.com |
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| MANOBI is an innovative African operator and provider of business data services value chain on mobile telephony and the internet. Its services bind thousands of people at the base of the pyramid with people at the top of the pyramid. MANOBI provides converged services using the mobile phone and internet to connect key players at various stages of the value chain within an industry. The objective is to allow players to be directly connected (i.e inputs suppliers-farmers, artisans or fishermen-wholesalers-distributors-retailers & exporters- consumers). |
As a value added mobile service operator, the company is playing a major role by providing a cost-effective way to deliver information services to this large dispersed population by transforming the mobile phone of millions of users into a business tool to respond to their needs for more information, market access and socio economic development.
Manobi’s customers are generally people across all economic strata, either in the lower economic strata (i.e small farmers working on family farms) or the upper economic strata (i.e international companies buying the farmers products or supplying them with inputs). AMSCO has seconded one manager, in the position of IT and Service Development Director with expertise and experience gained over the years in the field of IT, and the ATMS Foundation has also made an input of US$70,716 for Training and Management Support
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| www.manobi.sn |
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| Senegal |
| Industrial and Consumer Goods |
| The company Matforce, ex subsidiary of Unilever (a world leader in consumer products sales), was established in Senegal a century ago, in 1898 and is one of the leading companies in West Africa in its core business activities which includes cars, power, industries and mines equipment, irrigation equipment, tyres and air conditioning equipment. |
The role of AMSCO is to assist the company achieve its objective of consolidating its position by specializing in areas of very sharp business while improving the quality and productivity of its operations before its competitors. This will be done through the secondment of two managers, a Technical Manager with expertise and experience in generators activities and a Lean Six Sigma Manager - this technical position is the most important and innovative position. Matforce will be the first African company to implement the Lean Six Sigma method which will allow them to improve the quality, productivity, reduce the cost of operations and improve customers’ satisfaction.
This method can be exported and implemented in the subsidiaries afterwards by the trained staff.On the other hand, the Technical Manager will provide solutions to the level of sound of the generators. There are good perspectives for the activities focused on energy. |
| www.matforce.com |
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| Nigeria |
| Hospitality |
| MP Budget is a hotel management and operating company promoted by Moorhouse Properties Limited (“MPL”), a leading hospitality and real estate company, to develop and manage the Travelhouse chain of budget hotels across Nigeria. |
| The target market for the Travelhouse hotels comprises primarily business and leisure travellers in Nigeria. As a result, the proposed hotel locations for the first phase in the expansion of the Travelhouse chain are situated in major commercial centres across the Country. The unique opportunity that exists in these markets is the unavailability of purpose-built, convenient and affordable hotel accommodation to serve the large number of businessmen and traders who visit these cities daily. The Travelhouse chain expects to fill this gap. A General Manager was seconded and a total grant of US$67,500 given to the company ($36,000 for management and $31,500 technical support. |
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| Ghana |
| Accomodation and Tourism |
| The Hotel is 3 star hotel with 83 rooms, a conference facility, a restaurant and a modern gym offering excellent service to national and international clients. The Hotel therefore has a total of 95 rooms. However, It was originally set up as a small contemporary mansion hotel located in an up-market neighbourhood in Accra, Ghana, to accommodate business and holiday travelers. |
For the success of its new and expanded phase, the management of the Hotel deems it very critical to engage the services of an experienced expert General Manager who will be able to manage their properties. Oak Plaza therefore approached AMSCO to recruit and second an experienced General Manager for a 3 year period.
The company has also requested AMSCO to manage the capacity building aspects of the project by overseeing training and skills transfer to local staff. The AMSCO Manager, has been on the post since 2010, as General Manager. An Executive Chef has also joined the team. |
| www.oakplaza.com |
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| Togo |
| Professsional and Technical Services |
| Oragroup S.A is the Holding Company of the Financial Bank Group, with subsidiaries in several countries in the West African sub-region. It has a total of 10 AMSCO Managers in various senior management positions. It recently changed its name from Financial BC S.A to Oragroup S.A. |
| The Bank is start up that realized the need to second expert managers at the Holding level to set up the various departments and getting them to function fully. These Managers would in turn pass on their skills to other identified successors in the subsidiaries who would also establish those departments in the subsidiaries. Some of those identified successors would also take up responsibilities in the Holding Company. |
| www.orabank.net |
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