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WORD FROM THE EDITOR
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Dear visitor and international
investor,
We
warmly welcome you, if this is
your first visit to Africabiz
Online - The ultimate newsletter
on trading and investing in 49
sub-Saharan African countries.
If you are a regular and faithful
reader, welcome back.
If you
are a regular and faithful reader, welcome back.
We have decided to
change our free Email edition format from ASCII to php. Click
here to view the new look and here
to register to the free Email edition.
Your registration to the free
Email edition give you the following privilege with your access codes
(your registered Email address with /africabiz/ or oxfordCLUB; and
africabizPLAN or africabiz1000 as password):
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Access to the AFRICABIZ business plans' vault at least twice per year.(Announcement
is made on this page - the one you are perusing right now - and in the free Email
edition - to the link in question when the vault is opened)
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The
change from ASCII format to the php one for
the free Email edition, was necessary to merge that edition with AFRICABIZ
Online's website; and deliver to you rich text contents. African
scholars are now publishing more and more books and essays to analyzing the reason
why development processes implemented in most African countries are not successful
not to speak of failure.
We point to your attention two books:
In
the same line of brainstorming to propose solutions to the development process
in Africa, we released also a scheme
drafted for the Republic of Benin:
"Strategy for African Countries", which can be adapted to the
economic development situation of any sub-Saharan African nation . A
discussion about said strategy is opened
You are invited to enter
the discussion's board and contribute to the debate. The more proposals and solutions
we have, the better for the economic development of the Continent.
In
doing so, we may succeed in helping some African decision makers to comprehend
that the development process of our respective countries is the only war left
to be fought and won; and avoid strategic mistakes
- the controversial Land Reform based on the seizure of white farmers' lands in
Zimbabwe - which
are detrimental to the whole continent and scare away international investors.
Many thanks for dropping by and see you here next month.
Dr. B.M. Quenum
Editor
of AFRICABIZ
Click here to get email address
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BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA
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Still on AFRICABIZ
promotional board is the vegetable oil production factory in Benin
to produce mainly Shea Butter.
WHAT IS SHEA BUTTER?click
hereto review
We
received many feedback in which some people expressed their concern about the
high level of ROI (Return On Investment) shown in the bizplan available
here.
It sounds to good to be true! Oh yes, it is true and below is an addendum,
which shows that this is really an opportunity not to be missed. Click
this link to have a look on the "Ice on the cake"
Instead of
selling the shea-butter as a raw material, it is easy to increase the bottom line
of the company by selling a more elaborated product. One can produce a cosmetic
product - 99 % of the composition being refined shea-butter, and 1% a special
essential oil for skin care - for the American and European markets, packed in
small glass or reinforced plastics bottles.
The market already exists;
karité - shea-butter - small bottle weighting in average 250 gr. for price
in the range of US$ 5 to 10 (five to ten) are sold in some Europe' supermarkets
So let assume that a portion of the production of shea-butter as
stated in "Sales
Forecast" is transformed into skin care cosmetic product. One ton of
shea-butter gives 4,000 bottles (250 gr. each); we take a selling price of US$
5 per bottle in the table below which highlights the resulting "Net Profit".
You may compare this to the initial "Loss
and Profit" and see that there is really an ice on the cake.
| Shea-butter
Skin-Care Cosmetic Product |
| Investment | | | |
3,000,000 |
| Capacity
(bottles) | 20,000 |
28,000 |
36,000 |
x1,000.00 |
| Turnover
(US $ 5 per bottle) | 100,000 |
140,000 |
180,000 |
x1,000.00 |
| Direct
costs of sales | 20,000 |
28,000 |
36,000 |
x1,000.00 |
| Operating
costs | 10,000 |
14,000 |
18,000 |
x1,000.00 |
| Interests
+ taxes | 30,000 |
42,000 |
54,000 |
x1,000.00 |
| Net
profit | 40,000 |
56,000 |
72,000 |
x1,000.00 |
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