The first shipment of honey from Tanzania to be sold in the UK is on its way. Swahili Honey is the brand name, whose corporate name is Central Park Bees, as seen on the back of the bottle (below) above the name of the UK importer.
A video site visit of the Swahili Honey factory is Dodoma is below:
Africa Eats is now old enough to to benchmark our share price. We invest in young, fast-growing companies, so a good comparison would be the private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds. But Africa Eats is now publicly listed (and liquid) and thus another good comparison is the public stock indecies. McKinsey recently published a report on “Global Private Markets” with returns...
Africa Eats management will share the highlights of 2024, the results of the Q1 2025 private placement, and details on the 2025 project with the Nairobi Securities Exchange on this upcoming earnings call, recorded in front of live audience at Africa Eats’ 2025 Annual Gathering in Nairobi, Kenya. The stream begins at 9:30am East Africa Time Aggregate revenues for the bizi grew in 2024 to...
It’s almost time for Africa Eats’ annual “Gathering”, where all of the bizi founders fly to Nairobi, to be met by dozens of guests and for multiple days of facilitated discussions. This is our first gathering as a public company, and with that, this year’s event will copy some of the style of Berkshire Hathaway’s famous annual shareholder gathering. Building...
Episode 160 with Luni Libes, a serial entrepreneur, investor, and impact-driven venture builder. Luni is the founder and CEO of Africa Eats, an innovative investment company tackling food insecurity and poverty across Africa by scaling profitable, for-profit agribusinesses. He also leads SEMX, a groundbreaking initiative unlocking public capital markets for African SMEs.Africa Eats invests in and...
Business Magazine (of Mauritius) covered the story of the launch of the SEMX in its latest issue. The translation from French to English is below. Screenshot AFRICA Eats, Elite Meat Processors and Ziweto Holdings are the three companies listed simultaneously on SEMX, a new segment targeting African companies. To qualify for SEMX, Vickram Ramful, Head of Listing at SEM, specifies that a company...
Africa Eats (EATS), Ziweto (ZWTO), and Elite Meat (ELIT) were publicly listed on December 3rd. One month later… the price of all three companies shares are up from December, thanks to new investors buying shares through the stock market. stockexchangeofmauritius.com/products-market-data/sem-x-segment/trading-quotes The liquidity of these shares is made possible by Tuesday Markets, the first...
The original business model at Paniel Meat Processing was for 100% of the animals to be raised by Rwandan smallholder farmers. The “high class” problem in the last year is that demand increased so quickly that the only reasonable path was to build out some in-house animal production, starting with chickens. A hatchery for day-old chicks, six chicken houses, and an abattoir. Enough...
December 3, 2024 – Africa Eats (EATS) is the latest company to list on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM), along with two of our bizi: Ziweto (ZWTO) and Paniel Meat Processing (ELIT). These three companies are the first three listings on the SEM X, a new segment on the SEM’s Official Market for high-growth, profitable companies. A segment designed to help companies with a history...
The GDP per capita metric is helpful to gauge the level of economic development within a region, but misleading in that the metric gets skewed by extraction-based industries like mining and oil (which is why Botswana, Namibia, and Gabon) are higher than their neighboring countries). Visual Capitalist has published a map of the per-capital GDPs of most of the African nations (in most cases rounded...