Lobito – The Anseba Group, owner of the Kero supermarket chain, and Carrinho Indústria on Friday, in Benguela, signed two contracts for the industrialization of foodstuffs.
According to the CEO of Carrinho Indústria, Décio Catarro, the first contract is for the transformation of cocoanut, sunflower and soybean oil, while the second refers to the processing of corn and wheat in its by-products, namely pasta, flour and cornmeal.
The mentioned contracts will have a renewable duration of one year and will come into force on November 1st, this year.
Regarding quantities, Décio Catarro said there was no concrete definition, but revealed Carrinho Indústria's capabilities in terms of oil production, which is around 800 tons per day.
“We have two refineries that produce more than 800,000 liters of oil in packages of 250 ml, one and five liters. From February next year, we will fill 10 and 25 liter pots”, he noted.
As for wheat, he spoke of 1,900 to 2,000 tons and the corn 800 tons per day.
The CEO guaranteed that the country already has an installed capacity that can put the importing of this product in the background.
“Carrinho Indústria’s total annual capacity is 1.5 million tons of basic basket products and its by-products,” he stated.
He stated that “the production capacity is not just in Benguela Province, with Grupo Carrinho, because there are other industries which can make that the country, in half a dozen years from now, will be capable of making a total transformation”.
In turn, the representative of Grupo Anseba, lawyer Mário Arão, stated that his company is among the three largest importers of basic foodstuff in Angola.
“We’ll import the raw materials to be transformed into Carrinho Indústria, with your brand sponsorship”.
“Our focus is the national market”, he said, giving as an example the number of products displayed in the company’s stores throughout the national market.
The Anseba Group, under Angolan law, has twelve Kero stores spread across the provinces of Luanda, Benguela, Huila and Huambo, with more than 2,000 jobs.
In Africa, in addition to Angola, it is also represented in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
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