French Enterprise Seek to Base its Africa Manufacturing Hub in Kilinto Industry Park

Addis Ababa, November 27, 2024 (FBC) – The French Food and Detergent Processing Enterprise, Ecologistique Bourgogne, seek to base its Africa Manufacturing hub in Kilinto Industrial Park.

The company which aspires to partner with Ethiopian Airlines plans to source its main ingredient to produce dry food and desert from local market.

According to the founder of Delamontte Enterprise, Sebastian Delamotte, the main ingredients for his company are wheat, sesame, sunflower, and animal products like egg and milk.

Ecologistique Bourgogne Enterprise is a French family-owned business established in 2006. It is engaged in the production of detergent, dry food and deserts, packaging, transport, and metal work.

The CEO of Industrial Parks Development Corporation, Feseha Yetgesu (PhD), underscores that the founder of the company came to Ethiopian at an opportune time since Ethiopia is becoming the success story of Africa’s wheat production.

The CEO said that Ethiopia has managed to cover its wheat needs by locally producing wheat during the dry season using irrigation. He said that apart from covering local wheat needs which used to cost the country more than 750 million UDS to import wheat from surplus producing country like Russia and Ukraine, the country is in the process of exporting its surplus produce.

The company needs no worries to source its main ingredients like wheat and oil seeds since there is a practice of contract farming according to Zemen Junedi, the corporation’s Deputy CEO for Investment Promotion and Marketing. He said that the French Malt Processing Factory in Bole Lemi Industrial Park, Souffle, source barely from more than seventy thousand famers through contract farming scheme.

The CEO of the corporation has briefed the French delegation tax holidays and capital goods duty exemption companies investing in industrial parks are enjoying.

The company aspire to train Ethiopians in food processing technology and European regulatory framework.
It plans to lease up to 10-thousand-meter square of developed land for its envisioned food processing plant in Kiito Industrial Parks.