Dangote to spend $7.5 billion on expansion

Billionaire industrialist, Aliko Dangote said on Thursday his conglomerate needed to spend $7.5 billion in the next four years to expand operations in a range of sectors.


 “We are going into something big. We are going into mining, petrochemicals, cement and infrastructure. We need to spend $7.5 billion in the next four years, so definitely we need a lot of concentration,” he told a Reuters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Addis Ababa.
Mr Dangote said this changing focus was one of the reasons he was looking for a partnership for his flour business, Dangote Flour Mills, with Tiger Brands, South Africa’s biggest consumer foods maker.

“We are actually trying to have a partnership between us and Tiger Brands,” he said. “We believe they are much better than us in terms of the retail business.



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If only wishes were like horses…I really wish corruption would curb down and the government focus also on other sectors of the economy especially agriculture to encourage many investors. And I bet you, competition will spring up like fountains of water and wealth of the nation will be evenly distributed……..This my desire for the nation….my peeps do you think it can come to pass SOON?
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“We are actually trying to have a partnership between us and Tiger Brands,” he said. “We believe they are much better than us in terms of the retail business.” Banking and company sources told Reuters that Tiger Brands was bidding for an 80 percent stake in Dangote Flour Mills, which makes pasta and flour in Africa’s most populous country.

Buying all or part of Dangote Flour Mills would give the maker of bread, breakfast cereal and energy drinks a substantial presence in the Nigerian food market. Dangote said a deal was about partnership, not offloading assets. “We are not selling.

If it was to raise money, we would have … sold the whole business to them. But no. What we are trying to do is actually to have them so that we can now enjoy the downstream of the business,” he said. Dangote said he hoped to list his $11 billion cement company on the London stock exchange by the third quarter of 2013.

 Dangote Cement trades on the Nigerian stock exchange and is West Africa’s largest listed company. Nigeria’s population of more than 160 million is a massive potential retail market.