Being indispensable

Cement, rice, sugar, trucks... and now fuel. The conglomerate is ensuring its success by providing your basic needs. The long-term goal is to produce everything locally, making the country self-sufficient and an exporter.

- Dangote Cement: Listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) (DANGCEM). Nigeria's leading cement producer. Present in around ten countries, from Senegal to South Africa. Its sales have doubled in a single year.

- Dangote Sugar Refinery: listed on the NSE (DANGSUG). Nigeria's leading sugar producer with 1.44 million tonnes.

- Dangote Rice Limited: The group aims to free the country from rice imports - 6.5 million tonnes consumed each year.

- National Salt Company of Nigeria (NASCON): produces salt, condiments and cooking oil. The group intends to merge its food activities (rice, sugar, salt, tomatoes, dairies, etc.) into a single entity.

- Dangote Refinery (oil refining and petrochemicals): the Lekki petrochemical complex aims to refine 650,000 barrels a day and produce 3 million tonnes of fertiliser a year.

- Dangote Sinotruk West Africa Ltd: truck assembly, in a joint venture with China's Sinotruk.

- Dangote Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Ltd: joint venture with the French car manufacturer (present in Nigeria since the 1970s).

- AG-Dangote Construction Company Ltd: joint venture set up in 2013 with Brazilian construction group Andrade Gutierrez to build roads around Dangote factories.

- Twister B.V.: Dangote acquired this Dutch natural gas company to supply electricity to its factories.

- Dangote Cooperative (DANCOOPS): savings bank, home loans and study grants for group employees and their families.

- Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF): financing of educational projects, particularly in the northern states (university campus, business school); donations during natural disasters; partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.