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Dangote cement sustains 54,000 jobs in 4 African countries

Dangote told the shareholders that the year 2019 was a strong year given the tough business environment across most of its operating geographics

President of Dangote Group (http://www.DangoteCement.com/), Aliko Dangote has said that despite the challenging economic situation in 2019, Dangote Cement  was able to sustain 54,000 jobs in four African countries, where the company has its operations. The countries are Nigeria, Ethiopia, Senegal and South Africa. The business mogul who disclosed this to…

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Dangote Still Most Admired African Brand in Fresh Survey… For The Second Year Consecutively

Just last year Dangote brand was named the most valuable brand among the top 50 brands in Nigeria for 2018 by Brand Nigeria.

Dangote Group (https://Dangote.com/), from Nigeria has for the second year emerged as the most admired African brand, of African continent origin, by consumers ahead of the telecommunication giant, MTN in a survey of 100 Africa best brands announced in Johannesburg at the weekend. According to the South Africa based Brand Africa in a survey carried out…

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    • L-R: President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote; Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn; and Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development, Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin during the Former Prime Minister’s visit to the Dangote Refinery and Fertilizer Projects in Lekki, Lagos on Friday, April 26, 2019
    • L-R: President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote; Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn; and Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development, Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin during the Former Prime Minister’s visit to the Dangote Refinery and Fertilizer Projects in Lekki, Lagos on Friday, April 26, 2019
    • L-R: President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote; Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn; and Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development, Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin during the Former Prime Minister’s visit to the Dangote Refinery and Fertilizer Projects in Lekki, Lagos on Friday, April 26, 2019
    • L-R: Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development, Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin; Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn; and President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote; during the Former Prime Minister’s visit to the Dangote Refinery and Fertilizer Projects in Lekki, Lagos on Friday, April 26, 2019
    • L-R: Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development, Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin; Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn; and President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote; during the Former Prime Minister’s visit to the Dangote Refinery and Fertilizer Projects in Lekki, Lagos on Friday, April 26, 2019
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Former Ethiopian Prime Minister charges African investors to emulate Dangote’s investment drive

He insisted that Africa needs massive investment like the Dangote Refinery for economic development

Former Ethiopia Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn has described as exceptional and enormous the investment of the Dangote Group (https://Dangote.com) in Africa's oil refining sector and urged other private sector investors to take a cue from the group’s investment drive. Speaking during the tour of Dangote Jetty, Fertiliser and Refinery Plant,…

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Dangote, Imouhkuede launch Africa Business Coalition for Health… Receives endorsement from African Heads of State

The forum is expected to unify Africa’s key decision makers in exploring opportunities for catalysing growth in the continent’s economy, through business partnerships to invest in the health sector

An ambitious platform designed to bring together business leaders in Africa to collaborate with heads of government and other stakeholders to tackle basic health challenges in Africa has been launched in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with assurances from government to collaborate for a healthier Africans. The platform, African Business Coalition for…

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Corporate Social Responsibility: Dangote gets Top 5 Recognition in ‘Most Responsible Business In Africa’ Category

Dangote Group was also named by SERAS one of the Top 5 "Most Responsible Business in Africa/Overall Winner"

In recognition of its 2017 Sustainability Report and significant progress in Sustainability Best Practices and Reporting in 2018, Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) (www.Dangote.com) received two awards at the 12th edition of the annual Sustainability Enterprise and Responsibility Awards (SERAS), which took place in Lagos Nigeria. Two DIL subsidiaries received the…

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Dangote Cement strengthen pan-African market volume... operations in Congo, appoint acting CEO for Congo operation

DQ3: Dangote Cement drives volume across Africa

Leading pan African cement manufacturer, the Dangote Cement (www.Dangote.com) has maintained its strong hold in the Nigeria domestic cement market accounting for 65 percent of the Nigerian market volume, while other African plants’ volumes went up by 7.5 percent to 7.0 mta. The Cement company has in the past months…

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Half year: Dangote Cement records 12.6% Sales volume increase across Africa

Dangote Cement, Africa’s largest cement producer, has announced its unaudited results for the six months ended 30th June 2017

Dangote Cement (www.DangoteCement.com), Africa’s largest cement producer, has announced its unaudited results for the six months ended 30th June 2017, posting a 12.6 percent increase in sales volume across Africa.   In the financials released on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange indicated that the increase in sales volume…

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Nigerian Government commends Dangote Cement self-sufficiency feat

The Federal Government has officially confirmed that Nigeria has attained self-sufficiency in the production of cement and is now an exporter of the commodity

The Federal Government has officially confirmed that Nigeria has attained self-sufficiency in the production of cement and is now an exporter of the commodity, ascribing the feat to Dangote Cement (www.Dangote.com) which spare headed the backward integration policy introduced by the government. Minister for Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who…

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2016: Dangote ends Nigeria’s Cement importation…exports 0.4m metric tons cement to neighboring countries

In its 2016 full year audited results presented on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in Lagos yesterday, Dangote Cement sold 8.6 million metric tons of cement outside Nigeria, which is 54 per cent more than what was sold in 2015

Following continuous increase in its production capacity, foremost cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc (www.Dangote.com) has finally ended the era of Nigeria’s dependence on importation as the company exported 0.4 million tons of the product to other countries in 2016. In its 2016 full year audited results presented on the floor…