Vision for Cipharm: Pharmaceutical Company in Ivory Coast
Ibrahim Diawara shares his vision for Cipharm in 2015 and the years to come. In Ivory Coast, Cipharm is one of the top pharmaceutical companies.
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Ibrahim Diawara shares his vision for Cipharm in 2015 and the years to come. In Ivory Coast, Cipharm is one of the top pharmaceutical companies.
My current objective is to set up our national strategy for exports that has been approved by the government. This strategy identifies certain priority sectors for exports and a certain number of means and support systems, through what we call horizontal activities, to support exporters and particularly SMEs.
Internationally, we work with well-known companies, such as Panalpina, CEVA Logistics and DWF. These companies assist us in terms of our international business with things such as transactions, collections, deliveries and shipping and also responding to the bids for which we are contacted.
Notre mission est de gérer le secteur des fréquences. L’utilisateur final a un interlocuteur qui n’est pas nécessairement l’Agence, mais qui peut être cette entité qu’on appelle affectataire. Il s’agit d’un autre interlocuteur, à qui nous mettons des bandes de fréquences à disposition. Cela montre la recherche de la neutralité.
KPMG is consistently close to the market. We can observe this in France, for example, where KPMG has set up in nearly165 towns and where it has really become submerged in the economic fabric, particularly in the smallest towns where the KPMG offices are found.
There are about 21 million mobile users in the Ivorian market. The growth in the market last year was a bit more than 10%. Our growth was 300% so obviously we were the operator that benefited the most, considering our previous very low position in this market.
I think the demand is there and it is strong. There are lots of projects which we have become involved in and for which the government has signed concession contracts with new operators. These projects must play a role in the years to come but also continue to grow, so I think there are places for operators to help meet the needs.
Today, the new challenge is how we will go from a situation where we had 2 or 3 projects every year to a situation where we have to manage a lot more projects. Right now, we have more projects in our portfolio for the 2015-2017 program than what we have managed in the past 12 years.
Stéphane Eholie, Chief Executive Officer of SIMAT (Société Ivoirienne de Manutention et de Transit)
Stéphane Eholie talks about the recent partnership between SIMAT (Société Ivoirienne de Manutention et de Transit) and Nile Dutch, and presents one of the company’s new services: SIMAT Express.
Dr. Edouard Fonh-Gbei, General Secretary of CNTIG (National Committee of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information)
Edouard Fonh-Gbei gives an overview of CNTIG, the National Committee of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information in Côte d’Ivoire, mentioning some of the institution’s main projects, partnership opportunities, challenges and goals for the years to come.