12 business and investment opportunities for October

Below are 12 business and investment opportunities African entrepreneurs and investors can pursue in the month of October.

1. Finance ready plan: Beekeeping and agro-forestry business

While bee colonies in Europe and North America have suffered enormous losses in recent years, in Tanzania the population of bee colonies is thriving, offering great business opportunities. Read more

2. Finance ready plan: Expand production of quality uniforms across Africa through franchise outlets

Mang Wear is a textbook example of a small business with the ambition to double in size in three years. Read more

3. Finance ready plan: The lowest cost alternative energy solution for car owners

The Ugandan company Africa Alternative Energy Solutions has developed the Powerstation, which uses a vehicle’s electricity-generating capability to store unused electricity while driving, without extra fuel consumption. Read more

4. ESN Group – facilitating business and investment into Ghana

The ESN Group offers a wide range of services from market-entry assistance and business matchmaking to facilitating trade missions. Read more

5. Connect with Chinese suppliers at the China Sourcing Fair

The China Sourcing Fair stages the 3rd year of its successful edition in South Africa from November 28-30, 2012. Read more

6. A turn-key solution to profit from poultry

Surehatch has developed a proven turn-key solution which will enable anyone wanting to make money from poultry to do so. Read more

7. Manufacture high-quality snack foods in Africa

Snack Quip, a South African-based company, specialises in the supply of snack production plants. Read more

8. Manufacture quality beverages for the growing African market

Soda King, a manufacturer of soft drinks and purified water, is offering business people and entrepreneurs across the continent a unique franchise opportunity to establish a localised bottling plant. Read more

9. Produce fresh and uniquely branded potato chips

Snackfresh, based in Cape Town, South Africa, is inviting African entrepreneurs to partake in a unique business opportunity to manufacture fresh and natural potato chips. Read more

10. Increased profits through drying and juicing of fruit & vegetables

Every year large quantities of fruits and vegetables go to waste in Africa due to various reasons including very limited access to further processing technologies and facilities. Read more

11. Highly profitable machines to start your own business

Zhauns Business Opportunity Group offers a unique range of highly profitable machines to start your own business with. We offer the widest range of machinery on the African continent. Read more

12. Own your own “Old Fashioned” Fish And Chips franchise

Africa’s foremost fish and chips take-away chain is expanding across the continent and seeking entrepreneurial franchisees. Read more

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