Swiss take up Kigali hotel contract. Construction Manager - Global News. The $66m PlaYce Marcory centre in Abidjan, the commercial capital of Côte d’Ivoire, is to be the first of 80 across west and central Africa as demand grows for higher value goods and brands. The new mall was declared open by the President of Côte d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara. Jun Karube, chief executive of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, which owns CFAO, also attended the ceremony. For more international stories visit the CIOB’s global construction website GCR Spanning 20,000 sq m, the PlaYce Marcory has a Carrefour hypermarket, a shopping mall with 55 stores, and a food court that seats over 400. According to CFAO, the centre created 550 direct jobs and will meet “the most stringent standards in international mass retail”. PlaYce Marcory in Abidjan (CFAO) Côte d’Ivoire is one of the most advanced economies in west Africa – some 20% of Abidjan’s 5 million residents are considered middle class – and CFAO plans to open a dozen smaller malls there.
Read the rest of the article at GCR. British company intends to build 170 hotels in Angola. September 9th, 2015 News British company GoldenPeaks Capital Holdings will build 170 two- and three star hotels in all 18 provinces of Angola over the next three years, and the contract of cooperation for the project was signed Tuesday in Luanda, Angolan news agency Angop reported.
The contract of cooperation was signed between the British company and a consortium made up of the savings and credit bank Banco de Poupança e Crédito (BPC) and the Angola Business Corporation (ABC), and the investment required to build these hotels is estimated at US$1.2 billion. Designed by architectural firm Capinha Lopes ( the project will be carried out over three phases, the first of which started this year, including the construction of 40 hotels (28 two-star and 12 three-star), costing US$284.8 million. GoldenPeaks Capital Holdings is a Guernsey-based company focused on long-term financial investment management. (macauhub/AO/PT) Radisson Blu to open in Congo | Rus Tourism News. Carlson Rezidor announcing the opening of Radisson Blu M’Bamou Palace Hotel in Brazzaville, capital city of the Republic of Congo. The upper upscale property with 178 rooms will be the first internationally branded hotel in Brazzaville and open in September 2015.
“We are delighted to arrive in the Republic of Congo – the 26th African country we are present in. Africa is our most important growth market, and we want to further expand our network together with existing and new partners”, said Wolfgang M. Neumann, President & CEO of Rezidor. Carlson Rezidor’s total portfolio in Africa now features 64 hotels with over 14,000 rooms in operation or under development, and the group has the largest pipeline on the entire continent. The Radisson Blu M’Bamou Palace Hotel, Brazzaville is located less than 6km from the Maya Maya International airport. The Republic of Congo is located in central Africa and borders Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Logements sociaux : Des investisseurs russes s’intéressent au Burkina. Dimanche 14 juin 2015 Le programme logement sociaux initié par le gouvernement burkinabè à de l’écho à l’extérieur de nos frontières. Des Russes se mobilisent pour apporter leur concours en termes d’investissement. Ils l’ont fait savoir au ministre de l’habitat et de l’urbanisme René Bessolé Bagoro qui a effectué du 5 au 15 juin 2015 une visite de travail à Tcheliabinsk en Russie.
Dans ce pays avec lequel le Burkina Faso vient de renouer ses relations diplomatiques en décidant de la réouverture d’une ambassade à Moscou en février 2015, M. Bagoro a présenté aux hommes d’affaires des potentialités d’investissement au pays des hommes intègres dans le domaine de l’habitat. Devant la trentaine d’opérateurs économiques réunis au siège du gouvernorat de la Région de Tcheliabinsk ce jeudi 11 juin 2015, le ministre Bagoro s’est fait l’artisan d’une diplomatie économique. L’expérience russe pour réduire les délestages. Danish firms capitalising on African building boom. Africa is fast becoming a key market for Danish companies in the construction industry. A boom in private investment has resulted in fees on the continent being up to 30 percent higher than in Europe, Børsen reports.
Of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world, six are in Africa, which is creating opportunities for contractors, architects and consulting engineers. New wave African business now accounts for 25 percent of turnover for the Danish multidisciplinary consultancy Niras, and Carsten Toft Boesen, the head of the company, explained why. “There’s a new wave,” he said. “Development in Africa has moved in three phases: from pure grants, over to lending aid, and then today, where in some countries there are purely commercial projects that drive a growing demand in Africa.” “Building projects in these countries are typically run by foreign developers that need specialists who have both local knowledge and international skills,” he said. Real Estate Projects | Planificaciones Mundiales. Cabo Verde Marruecos España - Fuerteventura Grupo Planificaciones Mundiales Open to the World The internationalisation of corporations is based on several basic principles of economic strategy: quality, perseverance and leadership.
Grupo Planificaciones Mundiales embraces these principles in all of our business areas: Real-estate Development Renewable Energies Research, Development, Innovation, Patents Telecommunications Platform for Health Development Food and Agriculture Industry Our banking on the future makes Planificaciones Mundiales a company with a vocation for permanence and stability based on constant improvement in our international growth process. On the Cape Verde Islands, Planificaciones Mundiales offered one of our greatest strengths (the Integrated Quality Management System) to show local authorities that investment projects designed for the islands of Sal, Boavista and Maio mean unparalleled development for that Archipelago.
Residencial El Castillo. Residencial Guacimara. Actis $1.5 Billion Africa Property Plan to Tap Middle Class. Actis LLP, a private-equity company, will lead investment of as much as $1.5 billion in African commercial property to meet rising demand from international companies targeting a growing middle class. “We are seeing a shift in interest from South African brands to European retailers” seeking opportunities in fast-growing economies such as Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya, Kevin Teeroovengadum, 39, director of Actis’ sub-Saharan Africa real estate unit, said in an interview in Johannesburg on June 11. “They want to tap into the emerging middle class.” Actis, which is based in London, plans to invest in projects including shopping centers, office towers and industrial parks that will come to fruition over the next five years, Teeroovengadum said.
The company will use the proceeds of its second African real estate fund that raised $280 million in October, while the rest of the investment will come from commercial partners and loans. South African retailers Shoprite Holdings Ltd. Mota-Engil Looking at Africa Projects Worth More Than $5 Billion. Mota-Engil SGPS SA, the Portuguese construction company that said March 20 it was seeking $5 billion of contracts in Africa, is now looking at an even larger figure, its chief executive officer said.
“The global value of the projects we are studying or have pre-qualified for is now superior to that,” Goncalo Martins said in an e-mailed response to questions yesterday. “Some of those projects will definitely be awarded to us.” Mota-Engil is among Portuguese builders expanding in Africa and Latin America as Portugal cuts spending to comply with terms of a 78 billion-euro ($101 billion) bailout. The company, which reported a 22 percent increase in first-quarter net income yesterday, said in March it planned to enter new markets in Africa, including Zambia, Ghana , Uganda and Kenya.
With operations in more than 20 countries, Portugal’s biggest construction company is “confident” it will meet its year-end goal of an order book exceeding 3.5 billion euros, said Martins. Louvre Hotels Group Targets Algeria. Europeans are emigrating to Africa in herds. Tunisie: Vers l'implantation d'une vingtaine d'unités hôtelières en Tunisie par le groupe Accor. Par Béchir Lakani18/12/2012 à 12h11 En visite de travail en Tunisie le 17 et 18 décembre, Gérard Pelisson, président du groupe hôtelier et touristique français ACCOR, leader du secteur en Europe et dans le monde, a procédé ce matin, 18 décembre, à l’inauguration officielle des hôtels IBIS et NOVOTEL ACCOR, Avenue Mohamed V à Tunis, et ce avant d’être reçu par le président de la République au palais de Carthage.
Dans une déclaration à la presse au siège du ministère du Tourisme, Mr Pelisson s’est félicité du rendement des deux hôtels, qui sont ouverts depuis un an, en qualifiant l’ambiance d’«excellente», l’occupation étant satisfaisante grâce aux efforts conjugués de la direction et du personnel qui travaillent dans de très bonnes conditions. Concernant les perspectives d’avenir, le co-fondateur d’Accor a indiqué que le Groupe, premier hôtelier en Europe et dans le bassin méditerranéen, compte implanter entre 20 et 25 unités hôtelières en Tunisie dans les prochaines années.
Hotels eye African expansion. Business travel to Nairobi has surged in recent years. Some of the world’s biggest hotel brands, including Marriott, Hilton and Rezidor, are planning to open hotels in Kenya to cash in on a surge in business travellers from China and the Middle East to East Africa’s biggest economy. We have just gone through the Arab Spring and our hotels are fine Interest in Kenya from China and other new markets, including India and the United Arab Emirates, led to a 15 per cent surge in visitors to the country to 1.26 million last year, accounting for about 80 per cent of total bookings in Nairobi.
Kenya is racing to improve facilities to meet this growing demand, which has important economic implications – the sector generated foreign exchange earnings of 98 billion shillings (€893 million) last year, second only to tea. Its main airport, the biggest in East Africa, is being expanded to double its capacity to over four million passengers. Rezidor will open two in Nairobi by 2014. Friedrich Schaefer named Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group appoints new Regional Director for Sub-Saharan. The Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group has announced the appointment of Friedrich Schaefer as the group’s Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Schaefer will replace current Regional Director, Han Oldenburger, who will officially retire from the group in April 2013 after 21 years of outstanding service. With many years of international hospitality industry experience in Germany, the USA, United Kingdom, Malta, and Ireland, Schaefer has worked on the African continent for the past four years. Prior to his appointment at Carlson Rezidor, Friedrich Schaefer held the position of Area Manager of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, South Africa and was employed by the Hilton group for 10 years, with his last position at the company being the Area Manager of Hilton, Ireland. “I am delighted to be joining such an exciting hospitality group and am honored to be taking over from such a respected hotelier as Han Oldenburger. Accor annonce 30 nouveaux hôtels en Afrique dans les quatre ans. Spanish Group to build 4,500 homes in Mozambique.
{*style:<b> Spanish construction group Sanjose has signed an agreement with the Mozambican government for building 4,500 houses in three of the country’s provinces </b>*} The agreement with Mozambique’s Housing Promotion Fund (FFH) will see the creation of projects in the Marracuene district near Maputo, in the central town of Dondo and in the northern city of Nampula. According to Sanjose chairperson Jacinto Gonzalez, 1,500 houses will be built at a cost of US$150mn within 24 months. Mozambican government sources said, “These 4,500 homes are just the first step towards a massive construction drive. The Mozambican government hopes to involve Sanjose in the construction of 100,000 houses over the next decade.” Gonzalez remarked, “The project plan will consist of two types of buildings. “The larger homes will be three bedroom flats in four storey buildings.
Sanjose has claimed that each house will be connected to the electricity grid and will have running water. Portuguese company to build private condominium in Maputo, Mozambique. August 7th, 2012 News Portuguese construction company Lucios is due in September to start building the first phase of Maputo Bay, a private residential condominium of real estate promoter Openspace with a view over Maputo bay, said Tiago Faria, who is responsible for the company’s international projects. Cited by daily newspaper Oje, Faria said that the project in the Mozambican capital was the beginning of the company’s internationalisation process. Lucios projects turnover in Mozambique of 10 million euros in its first year of business. Faria also said that, given the crisis facing the construction sector in Portugal, Lucios’ internationalisation was not only a precaution for the future but also a necessity for the company, which has a 70-year history, to continue to grow.
In 2011 Lucios posted turnover of 53 million euros and expects to post a similar result in 2012. Portuguese company Viriato to build furniture factory in Angola.