This investment was made when British International Investment was named CDC Group.
Bagersh has been a leading supplier of high-quality roasted coffee for the local market for over nine years. It hopes to the first fully integrated high-end roasting business of scale in the country, having recently acquired a roasting and packaging facility.
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, East Africa
- Countries:
- Ethiopia
- 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.
- Food and agriculture
- Investment type
:
We provide capital in three broad ways: direct equity, debt, and intermediated equity (principally through investment funds).
- Intermediated investment
- Fund:
- SGI Ethiopia Growth and Transformation Fund
- Fund Manager:
- Schulze Global Ethiopia GP
- 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
- February 2013
- Domicile
:
This is the investee company’s place of incorporation; or a fund’s jurisdiction.
- Ethiopia
