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Slide of the month (SOTM) July. Investment horizon in Africa

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africon GmbH has made over 130 interviews with sub-Saharan African steel manufacturers between 2016-2017. In these interviews, one of the key issues holding back Western manufacturers was the risk perception of management, reflected in the preferred payback periods of the machinery. The management of steel companies was hesitant to make too large investments in machinery that would require long payback periods, mainly because of political, regulatory and other economic risks. The preferred payback horizon is 2-5 years, whereas most high-end Western equipment requires 8-12 years of payback time in Africa. Providing machines that fits risk perception or intended payback period is one of the main challenges of western engineering companies.

 

 

Marc Zander speaking in Sweden at Middle East and Africa Summit

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Doing business in the Middle Eastern and African region delivers results when you have the right information and tools at hand. At the MEA Summit you will get the chance to directly engage with prominent business leaders and industry experts with extensive experience from doing business in the region. If you are looking for markets enabling long term growth, this is your business forum.

MEA Summit is Sweden’s largest business event geared towards the MEA region, delivering insights, tools and clues as to how market transformation in the region will place future demands on business innovation. During two days in Stockholm, you will engage in presentations from world-renowned speakers, panel discussions and interactive workshops with top executives and industry experts as well as meet with an estimated 200 other Swedish companies who share your interest in the region.

Marc Zander to speak at the 4th Africa Business Forum in Cologne

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The Forum brings government, business and finance leaders from across Africa and Germany/EU to explore how the can work together in finding and leveraging business opportunity.

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The past decade hast transformed both perceptions and realities in Africa. Businesses are flourishing; from telecoms & banking to agriculture & mining, attacted by the rising middle class and the continentt’s natural resources. Despite all the challenges, the continent has become a beacon of hope and part of the solution for  a world faced with increasind challenges. Africa has the potential to be the world’s major driver of growth over the next decades. Demographice project a continent of 2 billion inhabitants by the year 2050.

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The forum is organized in partnership with the Association of German Family-Owned Businesses BJU/ASU  and Africa 2.0.

The target is to establish business partnerships via engagement and business exchange between African and German/EU companies and entrepreneurs. Thanks to the strategic support of the German Chamber of Commerce and the Federal Parliarment, the forum has an extensive outreach which includes the 4000  members of the Die Familienunternehmer.

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The 5th African Business Forum will bring government, business and finance leaders from around the world to Germany to explore how they can work together to ensure and sustain the momentum in order to benefit from the African growth.

Slide of the month (SOTM) May. Steel investment Africa

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During 2016 – 2017 africon GmbH conducted over 130 interviews with the management of sub-Saharan African steel manufacturers. In these interviews, we were able to discover that the current steel plant equipment and machinery market is dominated by low-price segment mainly consisting of Chinese and second-hand equipment. However, discussion with top managers on future investments in the next 10 years, the steel plant equipment landscape will change dramatically. Most of the new growth will come from mid-high price segment, with a total market share of over 50 % by 2025. This will open up great opportunities for steel plant engineering companies in sub-Saharan Africa.

 

 

africon participates in the GABF

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“The GABF aims at bringing together shrewd entrepreneurs, key opinion leaders and social influencers, CEO’s and selected politicians and non-governmental organisations to develop fresh commercial and social concepts that shape business, as well as economic thought and institutions.” (GABF)

The German-Africa Business Forum is a one-day event enabling exchange between German and African business communities. New potentials for cooperation can be identified during these days but also the interaction between economic, political and social development is discussed. Side by side with African and German politicians and businessmen Marc-Peter Zander, CEO of africon, will be speaking about opportunities of investment in Africa and share his experiences from the private sector.

The GABF will take place on the 23rd of March in the Adlon Kempinski Hotel in Berlin.

 

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Slide of the month (SOTM) October. Numbers on steel in Africa

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The slide of the month October shows that more and more steel is used on the African continent while steel production does not increase significantly. This gap must be dissolved by imports but it also indicates interesting investment possibilities for the steel processing industry. Seeing the need of steel increasing, we can also resume that construction is going up since 2005.

 

 

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