Welcome to Expand into Africa!

Expand into Africa is a private consulting company, specializing in assisting industry and businesses in the market and political risk assessments and the development and establishment and of businesses business ventures and agricultural development projects in Africa.

We provide “hands-on”, practical, “field” assistance during all facets of the establishment of a business or project in Africa.

About Us

Expand into Africa was established in South Africa in 2011 with the aim of assisting companies interested in investing in Africa.

Expand into Africa was constituted after realizing that many foreign corporations struggle with their business ventures in Africa. We have been working in more than 25 African countries and have consulted national and international organisations and companies operating in various industries for over 20 years. All of our team members have served abroad and are fluent in the major languages spoken in Africa.

Expand into Africa is well aware that transforming Africa’s investment climate is no small undertaking. However, we disagree with those who say things will never really change and work in Africa. For many companies, Africa is an untested but potentially huge trade and investment market – if approached correctly.

Expand into Africa assists in assessing and managing risks in African markets. Expand into Africa facilitates market entry and provides access to African markets. We have a soundtrack record of providing effective solutions to the challenges of African business environments.

Our Services

Market Research, Risk Assessment & Competitive Intelligence

Market Research

Expand into Africa provides assistance in gathering the necessary and often hard-to-find tactical research relating to a given African context or market. This real-time, “on-the-ground” information will help determine the feasibility of your specific capital venture as it relates to pricing, promotion, and place offering for the specific product or service you wish to provide. Our market research includes market statistics, export opportunities, and international regulations of trade and export.

Risk Assessment

Expand into Africa helps to identify the risks for a company desiring to enter any given market in the African context. Our basic assessment will identify common and known risks inherent in any business venture, and our team will also identify hidden risks in relation to the specific African country to which your company seeks entry.  Our assessments are honest, direct, and based on real-time information.

Competitive Intelligence

Apart from Market Research and Risk Assessment, Expand into Africa’s competitive intelligence is designed to help you convert information into usable “intelligence” that will make your organization more competitive across the entire operating environment and assist you in making sound business decisions regarding the expansion of your company into African countries. We provide information on clients, competitors, distributors, technology, and other macro- and micro-economic factors to provide your business with the necessary information to make strategic decisions and maximise the best opportunity for success. At the same time, we conduct due diligence on potential business partners.

Strategy Development & Business Set Up across Africa

Expand into Africa deals with the strategic aspects and legalities of starting a business, from establishing contacts with potential partners and customers, developing a business plan, and choosing a legal structure, to the business registration and actual company set up: 

Strategic Analysis and Development

Expand into Africa supports you in establishing initial business contacts with potential customers for your products or services. We put you in touch with competent business partners such as sales- and trading partners, customers or manufacturers. Furthermore, Expand into Africa can assist you in meeting government officials and/or finding the right JV partner for your African venture.
Using previously gathered information (see Market Research, Risk Assessment & Competitive Intelligence), our team of experts can help you analyze the data as it relates to your objectives, current operating environment, and desired outcomes. In cooperation with staff members appointed by your company, Expand into Africa will assist you in drawing up a full business plan -a custom-tailored reference guide which provides an executable strategy for the targeted expansion and serves as a valuable tool in daily operations.

Company Set Up across Africa

Developing the business plan is just a first step; the second is getting the product out and the business up and running. Setting up a business or subsidiary in an African context means knowing how to navigate political, environmental, and local economic waters. Our dedicated team of professionals is well-versed in the laws as well as the political and economic climates of the various African contexts and works to provide your company and management team with all it needs to understand the operating environment, getting the necessary credentials, and supporting you in setting up your venture. This includes:

• Assistance with a comprehensive search and secure service for Rental and/or Purchase of land/property and business premises;
• Legal assistance with lease agreements, concession and sales work contracts;
• Attending to your company’s incorporation and registration process, and providing aid to organize any sort of permit the company requires (commercial registration, trade licence, statistical and tax registrations, construction licences, relevant permits on Provincial and Municipal level, and so forth);
• Ensuring that your new business venture starts off and operates according to all relevant laws;
• Facilitating dialogue and/or conduct discussions with auditing companies, banks, investment promotion centres, provincial and local governments, and the like;
• Accelerating the process of obtaining work visas for your ex-pat personnel;
• Assisting with the recruitment, appointment and training of your local staff and personnel;
• Supporting you in the physical setting up of your offices/stores/warehousing/manufacturing site and the importation of machinery, equipment, shop fitting materials, stock, and so forth;

Advising you on the management and accounting of the investment costs, the recovery of your investment and the repatriation of your profits.

Project Management & Ongoing Consultancy

Project Management

Expand into Africa helps bring your venture to self-sufficiency. Through our network of associates, we can provide certain hands-on project management tasks for your company for an agreed upon period of time – usually the first couple of months of operations. Most of our work at this level involves the coordination of resources, facilitating meetings with local government officials and business representatives, and training (training varies, depending on the company’s needs and what systems need to be implemented to efficiently run your business in its new African context).

Ongoing Consultancy

Expand into Africa builds and maintains long-term relations with its Clients. We grow our business by delivering ongoing value to our Clients. This requires continued innovation in terms of products and services, flexibility and agility to grow and expand as our Clients grow and globalise their businesses.

As information becomes available in your market area and/or future expansions, Expand into Africa will pass this on to you to keep you abreast of contextual developments and growth potential.

Our African footprint

We pride ourselves in our knowledge and access to target over 25 African countries in which we provide custom-tailored solutions to help our clients address political, social, cultural, environmental and economic development imperatives per country.

We have implemented projects for organisations and enterprises ranging from Agriculture & Agribusiness, Forestry, Building & Construction, Energy & Natural Resources, Food, Drink & Consumer Goods, Retail & Distribution, Manufacturing, Security, Tourism, Hospitality & Leisure, and State Government.

Expand into Africa has a footprint in the following African countries:

Angola – Botswana – Burundi –Cameroon – Central African Republic – Congo Brazzaville- Democratic Republic of Congo – Egypt – Ethiopia – Gabon – Ghana – Guinea Bissau –Kenya – Liberia – Madagascar – Malawi – Mozambique – Namibia – Nigeria – Sierra Leone
– Somalia (Somaliland) – South Africa – South Sudan – Tanzania – Uganda – Zambia – Zimbabwe

Project references can be provided upon request.