africa: Businessguide 2010


Business Guide Germany Africa 2009/2010

For African readers the Business Guide Germany Africa 2009/2010 offers insight into the competence areas of German companies that are in search of business partners in Africa. Furthermore, they will find highly topical contributions containing information on the market entry in Germany, work related migration, and further training opportunities. The introduction of all the German federal states provides an overview of the conditions and possibilities of investments.




Selection of company portraits

Banco Espirito Santo

Sectors: Services

Key aspects: Retail, Private Banking and Asset Management, Corporate Banking, and Invest

Keywords: Retail, Private Banking, Asset Management, Corporate Banking, Investment Banking

Beluga Shipping GmbH

Sectors: Transport, transit, and logistics

Key aspects: Project and heavy lift carrier, specialist for tailor-made transportation s

Keywords: Heavy lift carrier, Transportation solutions, Shipment, Transport, Logistics service

Lucas-Nülle Lehr- und Meßgeräte GmbH

Sectors: Education, training

Key aspects: teaching and learning systems for technical education and training

Keywords: Automation and drive technology, Electrical engineering, Installation and communication systems, Automotive technology, Training systems



Selection of success stories

Sustainability within the Lufthansa Group

Lufthansa soared to new record heights in 2008, achieving the best result in the history of the company. This encouraging development was considerably boosted by joining forces with SWISS International Airlines. In 2008, almost 63 million passengers flew with the airlines of the Lufthansa Group.

While there is every necessity for economic success, all business segments, whether it is the passenger business, Catering, MRO, IT Services or Logistics focus on sustainability. Env...

Nigerian Population Census with FrontCollect®

The Challenge

Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country was in the need of new census data as a trusted basis for creating national development plans. The task of evaluating the questionnaires of the Nigerian census was awarded to Beta Systems Software AG owing to their comprehensive process and application know-how in the area of digitizing and analysing bulk data. The project was funded by the European Union.

The Approach

The FrontCollect® document management solu...

Escom and the Real Estate Sector in Angola

The Group

The group Escom is one of the largest investors in Angolan territory. The group was founded by the Espírito Santo group and by Helder Bataglia and started its activity in trading operations, diversifying afterwards investments in order to give historical continuity to the projects of the Espírito Santo group in Africa. It is also in the public works business in the Republic of Congo, where it operates since 1999, and has offices in Johannesburg (South Africa), Lisbon (P...