Strategy Consulting for an Africa Focused Strategy Boutique

Industry: Management Consulting

Product: Go-to-Africa Strategy

Partner: Various

Year: 2017 - 2019

Markets: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Objective: Africa market research and strategy consulting

Key Activities:

  • Built up the operations of the West African team and developed partnerships with other affiliate consultants.
  • Hired and trained a team of two analysis in Nigeria.
  • Analyzed and studied markets in Ghana and Nigeria, in sectors such as Intra-logistic and warehouse solutions, aluminum fabrication for sustainable architecture, automotive assembly, food packaging, fish waste, and animal feed to name few.
  • Led multiple dealership deals between German and Nigerian companies in automotive spare parts, animal feed, chemical raw materials and intra-logistic systems.
  • Continuously managed key stakeholders in the Nigerian and Ghanian markets.

  • Key Projects:

    Industry: Industrial Water Management

    Product: Water Treatment Technology

    Year: 2019

    Markets: Nigeria, Kenya, Botswana, Ghana

    Objective: Africa Expansion

  • Produced a structured country assessment framework for a German Manufacturer of Water Treatment technology, covering industry dynamics, legislation, willingness-to-pay, financial outlook, and political conditions to guide future market selection.
  • Defined their product-led Africa market entry strategy, shifting focus from geography-first expansion to a sales driven approach.
  • Mapped out market structures across the top selected markets, including pricing analysis, competition and distributor assessment.
  • Conducted market research on the automotive assembly activities across the continent for a German automotive assembly engineer company.
  • Managed Stakeholder relations with existing assembly companies in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya and acted as a proxy sales representative for assembly technologies and consulting services
  • Industry: Sustainable Architecture

    Product: Aluminium extrusion and fabrication

    Year: 2019

    Markets: Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria

    Objective: Africa Expansion

  • Produced a structured country assessment framework for UAE based Aluminium extrusion and fabrication company, covering industry dynamics, legislation, willingness-to-pay, financial outlook, and political conditions to guide future market selection.
  • Mapped out market structures across the top selected markets, including pricing analysis, competition and distributor assessment.
  • Industry: Warehouse Solutions

    Product: Intra-logistics

    Year: 2018

    Markets: Nigeria

    Objective: Africa Expansion

  • Conducted market study on Nigeria’s warehousing solutions, industries using them, market size and market outlook.
  • Mapped out implementation partners as a potential distributors, assessed their viability, shortlist and organized business trips for the client to meet
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