Mission of APEX-CI: Côte d’Ivoire Export Promotion Agency
Guy M’Bengue, Managing Director and CEO of APEX-CI (Côte d’Ivoire Export Promotion Agency), presents the agency and talks about upcoming forums and events.
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Guy M’Bengue, Managing Director and CEO of APEX-CI (Côte d’Ivoire Export Promotion Agency), presents the agency and talks about upcoming forums and events.
Siaka Kone, CEO of AIGF (Agence Ivoirienne de Gestion des Fréquences Radioélectriques), talks about the competitiveness of the market in Côte d’Ivoire and explains the mission of AIGF.
Bouaké Fofana, General Director of Ageroute, talks about the main infrastructure projects recently inaugurated in Ivory Coast, and mentions some upcoming projects.
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.
Profil du CNTIG, le Comité National de Télédétection et d’Information Géographique de Côte d’Ivoire, qui a pour rôle d’accompagner et de conseiller stratégiquement les structures étatiques et leurs divers démembrements dans la mise en œuvre de leurs projets de développement et de modernisation.
“The latest figures show that the average spending per person, that went down from USD 85 per night to USD 62 until very recently, has slowly climbed back to about USD 80 per person, per night. We are almost back there. Looking forward to 2015, (I am knocking on wood), if we move the way we are moving, we will be back to normal by the end of the year. In 2016, we foresee a higher level of business for Egypt.”
“Coca-Cola has been playing a major role in Egypt for over 70 years. We entered the local market in 1942. We are very committed to the Egyptian market and we have been investing heavily in it,” says Omar Mandour, General Manager of Coca-Cola Egypt, Yemen, Libya and South Sudan.