This investment was made when British International Investment was named CDC Group. It was also was made under a previous strategy. We disclose information on all our current investments, but narrative information on our pre-2012 investments, when we introduced a new strategy, may be limited.
Key facts
- Status:
- Active
- Region
:
Since 2012, we’ve only invested in Africa and South Asia. Investments outside these regions are from our pre-2012 portfolio.
- Africa
- Sector
:
We have seven priority sectors. However, we continue to invest outside these sectors, largely in the most challenging regions, as new investment supporting any sector helps to underpin the private sector, and create jobs and livelihoods for people. For funds, the sectors listed here are those the fund has invested in so far.
- Manufacturing
- Investment type
:
We provide capital in three broad ways: direct equity, debt, and intermediated equity (principally through investment funds).
- Intermediated investment
- Fund manager:
- Global Environment Facility
- Start date
:
For direct investments, this is the date British International Investment committed capital to the business or project.
For funds, this is the date that British International Investment committed capital to the fund.
For underlying fund investments, this is the date that the fund invested capital into the business.e
- May 2010
- Amount
:
For direct investments, this is the total amount that British International Investment has committed to the business or project (it may be a combination of equity and debt).
For funds, this is the total amount that British International Investment has committed to the fund.
- $50m
- Domicile
:
This is the investee company’s place of incorporation; or a fund’s jurisdiction.
- Canada
Investments made by this fund
- Active
- Exited
| Investment name | Country | Region | Sector | Start date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Cape Pine Investment Holdings
Cape Vine is a plantation forest and sawmilling company with operations located in the Eastern, Southern and Western Cape of South Africa. |
South Africa | Africa, Southern Africa | Manufacturing | October 2010 | Active |
|
Kilombero Valley Teak Co Ltd
KVTC is a teak plantation company located 425 km southwest of Dar es Salaam. KVTC owns a long term lease over 28,000 hectares, 8,150 of which have been planted with teak, and owns a sawmill. |
Tanzania | Africa, East Africa | Manufacturing | March 2011 | Active |
|
Afram Plantation Limited
Afram Plantation is a greenfield forestry project located north of the Afram River in Ashanti Region, Ghana. |
Ghana | Africa, West Africa | Manufacturing | May 2011 | Active |
|
Peak Forest Products (Pty) Limited (Rocklands Mill)
Rocklands Mill is a mining timber mill established in conjunction with local partners. It mainly produces underground supports for the South African mining industry (small mining timber, turned poles and pencil props). |
Swaziland | Africa, Southern Africa | Manufacturing | May 2012 | Active |
|
Peak Timbers Ltd
Peak Timbers is a plantation forest and sawmilling company with operations located in Swaziland. The company owns a total property base of approx 31,000 hectares, of which 22,000 hectares are plantable, and a sawmill designed to process both pine and eucalyptus. |
Swaziland | Africa, Southern Africa | Manufacturing | May 2012 | Active |
|
Imvelo Forests (Pty) Ltd
Imvelo is a newly-formed forestry company set up to house individual titled farms assets as part of a Lowveld farm accumulation strategy. |
South Africa | Africa, Southern Africa | Manufacturing | May 2013 | Active |
|
Ramanas Farms (pty) Ltd
Ramanas Farms is a plantation forest company with operations located in South Africa. The company owns a total property base of approximately 8,300 hectares, of which 4,600 hectares are eucalyptus, 1,400 hectares are pine and 2,300 hectares are conservation. The plantation mainly produces transmission poles and mining timber. |
South Africa | Africa, Southern Africa | Manufacturing | June 2013 | Active |
|
Global-woods AG
Global-woods AG is a forestry company in the Kikonda Forest Reserve in Uganda which has been operating under a tree-farming license to establish and manage the 12,182 hectare forest since 2002. A variety of tree species are grown in the plantation to produce saw-logs and fuel wood. |
Uganda | Africa, East Africa | Manufacturing | March 2015 | Active |
|
Compagnie des Bois du Gabon
Tropical forest harvesting and wood processing company that manages a contiguous forest concession of 568,543 hectares near the southern coast of Gabon |
Gabon | Africa, Central Africa | Manufacturing | March 2016 | Active |
| MTO Forestry (Pty) Ltd | South Africa | Africa, Southern Africa | Manufacturing | September 2018 | Active |
