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[Cameroon] Nestlé mulls upgrading plant to boost production units

[Cameroon] Nestlé mulls upgrading plant to boost production units

Global wellness company Nestle, through its Cameroon subsidiary is planning to launch the extension works of its production plant in Douala, in the economic capital of the country. The investment, worth a total of $16 million will make available to the food industry the benefits provided by the 2013 law on promoting private investment in the Republic of Cameroon.

This development comes in the wake of Nestlé Cameroun push to introduce the Penja pepper, local condiment certified a few years ago by Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle OAPI, an organization in former French colonies that protects intellectual property, in the preparation of its famous stock cube Maggi which could require the purchase of new equipment.

The extension of the Douala plant is billed as key in helping the company meet the need of production increase. This especially as it is the plant from which Nestlé supplies all the CEMAC countries which are Gabon, Congo, Chad, the Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea.

According to official information from the company, the Maggi cube, a cooking stock much sought after by households, represents on its own 90 per cent of the Douala plant’s production, through which Nestlé Cameroun makes a monthly turnover of $8 million in the CEMAC zone.

Apart from Maggi cube, the Cameroonian subsidiary of the Nestlé group also produces the milk “Nido” packaged in sachets, which represents nine per cent of the entire production of the Douala plant, against only one per cent for Nescafé, the famous coffee now locally produced from Cameroonian coffee. It is also possible that the extension of the Douala plant could lead to an increase in production volumes for the latter two brands.

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