€ BN mobilized
Companies supported
Years of experience in Africa
Services
Global Markets Strategies
ITARE supports its clients in defining and implementing international strategies for accessing emerging markets;
Business Development
ITARE supports its clients in developing businesses in new markets, leveraging its structured network.
Transaction Advisory & Financing
ITARE assists its clients by providing financial advisory services, structuring financing through trade finance schemes, and risk management.
Technical Assistance
ITARE provides the technical assistance needed to implement a business risk management system and business consolidation.
Business Sectors
Selected Deals
The Ivory Coast Project
THE IVORY COAST PROJECT (PCA)
The Ivory Coast Project (PCA), carried out by ITARE thanks to the contribution of European funds from the Emilia-Romagna Region, aims to strengthen the company’s presence in the country and, through this hub, in the West African markets.
The PCA enhances ITARE’s ability to develop its internationalization projects and, indirectly, those of Italian companies (particularly those from the Emilia-Romagna Region), participating in initiatives according to a “System” approach. In this way, ITARE creates a “leverage effect” towards the goal of the call to “accompany the regional production system beyond the pandemic crisis and strengthen its resilience through increased exports and scale up of exporting companies.”
The initiatives structured within the context of the PCA aim to overcome the limitations of the small-scale typical of our productive fabric, encouraging collaboration and aggregation dynamics in supply chains and value chains, and promoting financial solutions by Italian commercial banks and public institutions. The commercial offer is structured based on the concept of “Model Farming,” that is, solutions in line with the needs of the African production fabric, integrated (both technically and financially) and directed at the priority sector of food security (agriculture and livestock).
Within the PCA framework, there is the initiative to modernize the poultry sector, carried out in collaboration between ITARE and public entities of the country. This initiative aims to promote food production through private sector participation in all stages of the value chain (feed production, storage, breeding, industrial processing). A first phase is already underway, to be followed by typical post-sale activities as part of the PCA.
Following a Memorandum of Understanding between ITARE and the Minister of Animal Resources and Fisheries (MIRAH) of Ivory Coast (March 2023), which provides for “collaboration in the commercial and financial structuring of the Modernization Project” of the relevant sectors, new project initiatives will be developed within the PCA framework. Currently under discussion with MIRAH are the extension of the initiative in the poultry sector and a Model Farming project for cattle breeding.
Our Network
ITARE has a deeply rooted network in Africa covering most of the continent and reaching those countries where there is no direct local presence. It operates in the continent through two modalities:
Direct Presence
Countries with on-site staff to manage customer relationships, and operations, and provide logistical support:
- Senegal
- Ghana
- Tanzania
- Cameroon
- Uganda
- Kenya
- Ivory Coast
Network Presence
Countries where ITARE has partners to manage institutional relations and business development:
- South Africa
- Namibia
- Botswana
- Angola
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Benin
- Togo
- Guinea
