Can you give me statistics on major multinational companies (Coca
Cola, BP, Shell, Esso, Monsanto etc) who currently do business in
Africa?  Can this be analysed by type of activity, volume of business
and value of transactions?

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 18 Mar 2003 08:53 PST

There are 51 nations in Africa. Any in particular?

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Clarification of Question by obebe-ga on 18 Mar 2003 09:36 PST

Sub Saharan Africa, South Africa, and East Africa (the key
trading/commercial countries)

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 18 Mar 2003 17:17 PST

Hello Obebe,

You certainly do ask some interesting and challenging questions.

I might have found a lot of what you need -- it depends on whether you
want the biggest companies that do business in each African companies
(which I can tell you...up to a point) *OR* how much business the
biggest companies (Shell, etc) do in Africa, which is a different
thing again.  The info below should make my meaning clear.

I've found a source that gives information of this sort for about
20-25 of Africa's poorest countries (I'm still checking to see if the
same info is available for all countries on the continent).

For Uganda, the data shows they have 30 multinational corporations
operating in the country, and includes a list of largest
multinationals, which starts off like this:


Company...............Home economy............ Industry......Sales ($
million)

Nile Breweries Ltd....South Africa ...........Beverages ..........72.0
Standard Chtd Bank.....United Kingdom...... Commercial banks..... 13.5
Cal Uganda Ltd. .......United Kingdom .....Computer equipment......3.6
Abacus Pharma..........India .............Drugs and sundries...... 2.9
Uganda Bata Shoe Co.....Switzerland ........Womens footwear........2.0
Transpaper Limited .....Kenya............. Stationary supplies.... 1.6
Car & General (U) Ltd... Kenya........... Farm/garden machinery... 0.3
General Mouldings Ltd... Kenya............ Plastic products....... 0.1
Barclays Bank Ltd...... United Kingdom .......Commercial banks ..  --

As you can see, these aren't necessarily the most well-known companies
in the world (*what?* you don't wear Uganda Bata shoes?) and the
presence of the multinational giants like Monsanto may not make the
list if they have small operations in the country.



My data source also includes a list of the largest transnational M&A
deals, which for Uganda, starts off like this:

Acquired company....Industry....Acquiring company...Home ...($
million)

La Source Group-Kasese...Investment..Banff Resources...Canada... 48.9

Nile Breweries....Food products..S. African Breweries..UK.... 29.0

Uganda Commercial Bank..Banks...Westmont Land.......Malaysia ...11.0

and so on...


Let me know if this type of information -- for some, but not all--
African countries, would be of use to you.  And if not, please clarify
for us what type of data you are after.

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Request for Question Clarification by claudietta-ga on 19 Mar 2003 15:32 PST

Can you be specific on the information you are looking for?  e.g.
revenue per year, types of transactions?

Claudietta

<Details of assets, turnover and employment in 1999 for the world’s
100 largest transnational corporations are given at this site.
http://r0.unctad.org/en/subsites/dite/1_itncs/top100wir01.pdf 

A directory of transnational corporations is given at
http://www.endgame.org/dtc/directory.html

A geographic index of transnational corporations giving details of
where they are operating can be seen at
http://www.endgame.org/dtc/dtcindex.html

For each company more detailed financial information can be found by
following the links given below to their websites and then following
the links to investor relations/investors.

Coca cola http://www.cocacola.com/flashIndex1.html
Coco cola operates in all African countries except Libya and Sudan.
Across Africa it has 75 bottling partners with a total of 140 canning
and bottling plants.
Activity: Soft drinks manufacturer.
African production 1.12 billion cases. 
Net revenue in Africa: $261 million
http://www.treat-your-workers.org/coke_facts.html
Coca Cola expands in Africa
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/cocacola.htm
Financial highlights
http://www2.coca-cola.com/investors/annualreport/2002/highlights.htm



BP. http://www.bp.com/
Activity: Manufacture of petrol, fuel, oils, lubricating oils and
greases from crude oil. Service stations.
http://www.mbendi.co.za/cobpsa.htm
In South Africa they operate under the company name of BP Southern
Africa (Pty) Ltd where they have a 50% share in the Sapref Refinery.
1999: Production was 180,000 barrels/day. Turnover R7448 million.


Shell SA (Pty) Ltd  http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=home
Activity: Manufacture of petrol, fuel, oils, lubricating oils and
greases from crude oil.
Sapref Refinery (50% share) 
1999: 180,000 barrels/day. Turnover R8878 million (Shell has a 60%
share in this company).

Caltex Oil (SA) (Pty) Ltd - owned by Texaco & Chevron.
http://www.chevrontexaco.com/
Activity: Crude oil refiners.
1999: 100,000 barrels per day. Turnover R8298 million

Total (SA) Pty Ltd http://www.totalfinaelf.com/ho/en/
Activity : Crude oil refiners
1999: 85,000 barrels per day (36% share)
Turnover R6516 million

Figures for oil companies in South Africa.
http://www.tips.org.za/research/comp/crude/crudeORef.pdf

Exxon Mobil is the parent company of Esso.
http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/
Its only activity in Africa is investment in Chad where it is
currently constructing a pipeline and marine terminal.
http://www2.exxonmobil.com/Siteflow/Country/SF_CY_Chad.asp


Monsanto http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/default.asp

Activity: Provider of agricultural products and integral solutions for
farmers. http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MON&script=2100

It has operations in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Senegal, Tanzania
and Zimbabwe http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/about_us/locations/default.asp

In their accounts Monsanto gives the sales for Africa and Europe as
one geographical region.
Sales for Africa and Europe $626 million.
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/NYS/MON/reports/4Q02Supplemental.pdf


Microsoft Corporation http://www.microsoft.com/

Microsoft has operations in Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda,
Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique,
Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory
Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Ghana and Nigeria.

Activity: Software
2002 - Europe, Middle East and Africa region
First quarter revenue- $1.1 billion
Second quarter revenue- $1.42 billion
Third quarter revenue– $1.39 billion 
Fourth quarter revenue –- $1.22 billion 

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earn.mspx 

1997
South African sales $65 million
Remainder of Africa (south of the Sahara) $13 million
http://www.btimes.co.za/97/0309/news/news.htm


IBM http://www.ibm.com/us/
Activity: Computing hardware, microelectronics and software.
2002 - Revenue from Europe/Middle East/Africa was $7.8 billion
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000104746903008194/0001047469-03-008194.txt


General Motors http://www.gm.com/flash_homepage/
General Motors operates in Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape
Verde, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gibraltar,
Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malta,
Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Reunion Island,
South Africa, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
Activity: Motor vehicle manufacturer.
Latin America, Africa and the Middle East Production 141,000 units in
the second quarter of 2002
http://www.gm.com/company/investor_information/sales_prod/index.htm
In 2002 the Latin America, Africa and Middle East division made a loss
of  $181 million http://www.gm.com/company/investor_information/fin_res/index.htm>



<Additional links:>

<Multinationals upbeat on investment in Africa>
<http://www.iccwbo.org/home/news_archives/2000/multinationals_cautiously_upbeat_on_investment_in_africa.asp>

<Are transnationals bigger than countries?>
<http://r0.unctad.org/en/press/pr0247en.htm>


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Request for Answer Clarification by obebe-ga on 03 Apr 2003 09:49 PST

Thanks for this belinda. This is great but the information is too
specific to focused on transnationals (i apologise as I infered this
in some way)and does not help our project effectively. Is it possible
to have aggregated figures by sector? For example we want info that
will allow us to make a statement like: 50% of all commodities imports
come from Africa. That generic!! We are looking at the following
sectors/industries: commodities, oil production, aviation,
electricity, construction, logistics (or sometimes called port
handling).

The fact can be the level of development/ growth of the sector or
mainly, its contribution to developed countries.

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Clarification of Answer by belindalevez-ga on 04 Apr 2003 01:08 PST

<I apologise for any misunderstanding. Hopefully these figures are
more what you are looking for.

‘Africa provides the world with 75 percent of its cobalt, 48 percent
of its diamonds, 40 percent of its chromium ore, 33 percent of its
manganese ore, 26 percent of its phosphate rock, 29 percent of its
uranium, 20 percent of its hard coal, 19 percent of its bauxite, 15
percent of its copper, and 10 percent of its crude petroleum. In
agricultural products, 50 percent of the world’s cocoa, 22 percent of
its cashew nuts and 20 percent of its coffee beans come from Africa.’
http://www.standardtrust.com/new1/speech2.htm
Virtually all the gum Arabic of commerce comes from Africa.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/X0098e/X0098e01.htm

‘Africa produces half of the world's cocoa, which comes primarily from
West Africa. One fifth of the world's coffee, comes from East Africa.
One fifth of the world's peanuts come from Western and Equatorial
Africa. One fifth of the world's palm oil also comes from Africa along
with one tenth of the world's tea. About four-fifths of the world's
pyrethrum, used to make insecticides comes from Africa.’
http://www.raceandhistory.com/Zimbabwe/10092001.htm
58 percent of the world’s gold, 98 percent of the world’s diamonds, 37
percent of the world’s manganese and 37 percent of the world’s
uranium, radium, rubber and olive oil comes from Africa.
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Fx074aYzA44C:www.kbabooks.com/Editorials/editorial_moments_march1.htm+%22comes+from+africa%22+oil&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Oil
The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that 15.3 of U.S. oil comes
from Africa.
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/7_06/vs.html

About a third of crude oil imported to the US comes from Africa.
http://www.anc.org.za/anc/newsbrief/1999/news0426

Every fifth gallon in US gas tanks will come from Africa by 2005.
http://www.africa-confidential.com/country.asp?ID=108
One in every seven barrels of oil that the United States imports comes
from Africa. http://allafrica.com/stories/199902120016.html
Fifteen percent of our imported oil comes from Africa.
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:eHgSzhCEBAsC:www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pubs/1994/usafrica/usafrica.pdf+%22comes+from+africa%22+commodities&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://www.csis.org/africa/lewis.pdf

Electricity

South Africa supplies more than half of the electricity generated
throughout Africa. Currently coal provides 75 percent of primary
energy needs. The government plans to put electricity in 2.5 million
rural homes by 2015 using solar energy.
http://www.raramuri.com/html_southafricainfo/html/5-economy_5_energy-transport.htm

Aviation
‘African aviation industry with an expected 3.9% growth per annum
through to 2010 is above the world average of 3.4%. Cargo volumes are
expected to grow 5.9% per year to 2020, compared to a global expected
average of 4.4%.’
http://www.economist.com.na/2002/15nov/11-15-12.htm
African aviation industry obsolete
http://www.mtrustonline.com/african30072002.htm
Challenges facing the African aviation industry.
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22construction+in+africa%22+++%22challenges+facing%22

Construction
Despite world growth of 5.8 percent since 1998, the African
construction industry remains flat. In 2000 $ 56.1 billion was
invested in construction which is a drop of $ 3.3 billion in spending
from 1998. "political instability continues to be a nearly
insurmountable obstacle to development,"
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/features/fex10246.htm

Port handling

‘The total container traffic of all ports in Africa was only 11,5%
higher than the traffic handled by Rotterdam in 2000 and equivalent to
40% of the traffic of the busiest container port in the world, Hong
Kong.’
‘The percentage of cargo moved in containers in Africa was estimated
at 53% in 1999, against the world rate of 54,4%.’
‘In west Africa, 73% of its total seaborne trade was composed of crude
oil and oil products, as against 7% for southern Africa.’
African ports have enormous potential for growth. “Although trade has
grown over the past 10 years, Africa still remains one of the poorest
regions of the world. Primary commodities dominate exports and
three-quarters of the export cargo is oil from Algeria, Libya, Nigeria
and Cameroon.”
http://allafrica.com/stories/200303060168.html

Continued investment is needed to improve Africa’s port handling
capacity. Durban is Africa’s largest port. The Durban container
terminal handles 65 percent of South Africa’s seabourne container
traffic. R1.34 billion will be invested in the port to meet long term
capacity and to support continued growth in container traffic.
http://www.tradepartners.gov.uk/ports/south_africa2/profile/overview.shtml

A little over 2 percent of the world’s exports come from Africa.
http://www.laborsmilitantvoice.com/issue%237/africa-poverty1.html>

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