The company pays 111.3m Br as down payment for the JV it bought 51pc of
By Eden Sahle
October 2, 2011
The Privatization and Public Supervising
Agency (PPESA) is to hand over the management of Tepi Coffee Plantation to
Green Coffee Agro Industry Plc on Monday, October 3, 2011, after the latter
bought 51pc of the shares in the plantation.
Green Plc paid 111.3 million, 25pc of the
shares it bought, two months ago. The 10,000ht plantation rests in two regional
states, with 32pc in Gambella Regional State and the rest in Southern Regional
State.
The plantation, worth 873 million Br, was
first put on the auction block two years ago. However, the offer was cancelled
as Green Plc was the only one which showed interest. It was retendered a year
and half ago, and Green Plc’s joint venture proposal was accepted.
Tepi coffee plantation was one of the three
plantations under Coffee Plantation Development Co along with Bebeka and Limu
coffee plantations. Bebeka was fully sold to Horizon Plantation some time back.
The agency has plans to sell Limu this year, according to Fitsum Mesfin, deputy
general director of the PPESA.
Tepi is largely covered by the coffee
plantation, around 80pc, with the remaining covered by spices, palm and fruits.
The plantation produces five quintals of coffee per hectare using 2,335
permanent and contractual employees.
Green Plc, which was established in 1998 with
a start-up capital of 30 million Br, plans to raise this production capacity to
12 quintals, according to Tadele Abreha general manager of the company.
Green Plc, which has raised its capital to
100 million Br, has a 2,000ht coffee plantation in Keffa, Oromia Regional
State.
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