Perfumes & Cosmetics

Nur & Sugeti P.L.C is located in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia in east Africa. The main activities of the company are importing goods from abroad and distribute overall the Country.Under this Company there are three sales shops,three warehouses and a building with six floors and sixty rooms which could serve for business activities or office purposes.  Tyres Battries Nur Building Inner tubes Spare parts  The Company imports tyres, Auto spare parts, car batteries, car wheel, tubes, ply wood, soaps, computer, fax machine, photocopy machine and thier accessories.   Then, distribute it to our customers here in Addis and through out the country. Finally,we are great full for the support from all friendly partners and are looking forward to establish long term business relationship with anyone who is interested to supply us and we believe that we can become one of your partner in Ethiopia.

Funwe Hill is a prominent landmark near the south end of Lake Malawi in the Rift Valley. It is part of a small chain of thickly-wooded granite hills. Funwe Farm was created at the foot of Funwe Hill in 1975 by Press Agriculture, a subsidiary of Press Corporation, the largest company in Malawi. It is 8 km from the nearest main road, with no electric power or telephone in the area. Press Agriculture built the access road, various buildings and dams on the farm. It mainly grew tobacco, for which Funwe's low altitude (600 m above sea level) and low rainfall (700-900 mm per year, during a short rainy season from December to March) are not ideal. By the early '90s Press Agriculture was reducing its number of farms, and sold Funwe to a private individual. He sold it to the current owners on 1 July 2001 in virtually derelict condition. With their long-term social investment aims in mind, the owners concentrated for the first couple of years on renovating the infrastructure and employing professional staff. The 8-km access road was rebuilt (see above) using labour-intensive methods in order to provide employment, and the five staff houses, two offices and two storage sheds were refurbished. Two new boreholes were drilled and one existing borehole refurbished – the latter supplies good quality drinking water for the staff using a solar-powered electric pump. To improve water conservation, two existing earth dams were repaired and two new ones dug.; fifty wells were dug by hand and lined with precast concrete rings, in order to provide small-scale irrigation for dry-season crops using foot-powered treadle pumps (as seen above). The whole farm was mapped using a hand-held GPS unit, to demarcate the arable areas from the woodlands. The arable land was subdivided into three equal zones, to permit a three-year crop rotation cycle. Each zone comprises about 100 hectares of usable land divided into 250 numbered 0.4-hectare plots. Soil samples were taken – most of the farm is dry upland sandy loam soil overlying granite, with a few areas of dambo (river valleys) with richer soil higher in clay and organic content. As the staff number grew and the infrastructure was improved, agricultural activity began to expand. Initially the company Funwe Farm Ltd (see separate page) carried out most of the farming using its own labour, but year-by-year it has done less and the Funwe Farmers Group (see separate page) has done more. FFL tries out new crops and informs FFG of the economics of production and sale for each; then FFG decides whether to grow that crop. To date about 20 crops have been grown, of which maize for seed, sorghum for seed and pigeon peas for seed have proved profitable, while cassava, chillies, ginger, groundnuts, paprika, sunflowers, sweet potato and turmeric have all grown but not yet been profitable. Some agroforestry species such as tefrosia and glyricidia, and some fruit species such as mangoes, grow well. Vegetables and bananas do not grow well due to the extreme heat of the dry season. In livestock FFL has become a sub-contractor to the Shire Highlands Milk Producers Association, specifically to breed heifers from indigenous mothers and imported fathers. The cross-bred offspring inherit disease resistance through their mothers and higher milk yields through their fathers. The herd also eats agricultural waste products and provides manure for the fields. Looking to the future, FFL and FFG intend to specialise in high-quality seed multiplication. The farm has processing and packing machinery and good storage facilities.

The mother company of GAFCO Industrie-Bau Nord AG (IBN), conceived a new design for integrated agricultural processing complexes in developing countries in the late 1950's. This integrated strategy was illustrated in the engineering designs and feasibility studies prepared in 1962 for a "Tema Food Complex" in Ghana: The complex was designed to integrate several agricultural processing facilities. The plans necessitated that a wheat mill, an oil mill, a cocoa plant and an animal feed mill be housed within its borders. Through the efficient use of by-products and both forward and backward integration, the former Tema Food Complex was intended to play an important role in the provision of basic food products to the citizens of Ghana. It was not until Ghana initiated a privatisation programme as part of a free market-based economic reform package that IBN was able to gain control over the former Tema Food Complex. In January 1995, an extensive rehabilitation programme was immediately started. In addition to submitting the highest performing bid to purchase the former Tema Food Complex, IBN's bid was accepted for the following reasons: IBN's strategy for the redevelopment of the debilitated complex into an integrated agricultural processing center, thus fulfilling nearly its original purpose; IBN's long term strategy to expand the integration has the potential to revitalize the Ghanaian agro industrial sector;  IBN's commitment to develop the agricultural sector of Ghana along the positive economic and social benefits of IBN's plan; IBN's unique position to realize these goals due to the act that it originally designed the complex and developed the integrated strategy; and IBN's expertise in agro-industrial engineering, production and marketing in developing countries. GAFCO's history is reflected in the brand name and the symbol found on all GAFCO's products: the Sankofa bird. The Sankofa bird is a mystical character from Ghanaian history that looks back to pick up what it has left behind.

Star Café Ltd is a limited liability company incorporated in November 2000, after the 1990s coffee crisis which led to extremely low prices for green coffee, which was then the core business of Kampala Domestic Stores. Shareholders of Kampala Domestic Store decided to add value to the green coffee through roasting, blending and packaging Ugandan coffee and Star Café was incorporated to undertake this new business venture. Our mission is to become the global supplier of choice for Processed Uganda Coffee and maintain the highest business ethics at all times. We guarantee our consumers a quality product Build and maintain strong relationships that add value to our business Continue entrenching innovation as a part of our company culture. Location The company's head office and processing plant are located on plot 703, Banda, Kampala, Uganda.

Aqua Services & Engineering (Pty) Ltd (ASE) was established in 1993 as a company to support the local water treatment industry. This mainly includes the supply of turnkey water and wastewater treatment installations, water treatment equipment (components), chemicals and a fully-fledged instrumentation section. Over the past years, ASE has successfully completed numerous projects on a turnkey basis in Namibia.  ASE supplies water and wastewater treatment systems, equipment & components, water treatment chemicals, instruments and reagents, as well as maintenance services. These not only included small projects such as a 5 m³/h potable water treatment plant for Noordoewer, but also larger projects such as the supply of mechanical equipment and the erection of the 156 Ml/d Von Bach water treatment plant outside of Okahandja.   Through the water treatment solutions provided by ASE, our clients are able to enhance their environmental footprint, as the water can be applied for extended uses. Not only can the water be reused in secondary applications, but the treated water can be used for enhanced agricultural and domestic uses and thereby create self-sufficiency opportunities.