DANGOTE CEMENT
The multinational company known as Dangote Cement Plc is a leading indigenous cement company in Sub-Saharan Africa, championing cement sales in up to 10 countries of the region with its chairman being the business man and Billionaire, Aliko Dangote . It was founded in 1992 as Obajana Cement Plc and got renamed in 2010. Presently, the company boasts of the largest cement producer in Sub-Saharan Africa with with its annual production capacity of 48.6 million tonnes, having about 3 cement factories in Nigeria, one in Senegal and another in Tanzania. The product distribution cut across markets in African countries like Senegal, Tanzania, South Africa, Ethiopia, Gabon, Congo, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Zambia, Liberia and more. Its headquarters is in Lagos.
Dangote Cement has been sold as the best Cement in Nigeria and hence, widely distributed across every nook and cranny of the country as the builders choice. It is equally the most expensive cement currently in Nigeria with presence in every building material dealers’ warehouse.
This is a subsidiary of Lafarge cement that is headquartered in Gombe, Northern Nigeria, the name Ashaka is coined from the location in the North where the manufacturing plant was sited.
Eagle is one of the top cement manufacturing companies in Nigeria that is owned by the Philippine. It started as far back as 1995 and has since gone international to become one of the best selling in Nigeria.
Ibeto Cement
Ibeto is a cement company indigenous to Nigeria and founded by its CEO/Chairman, Dr. Cletus Madubugwu Ibeto. The company began operation in 1997 when the CEO stopped importation of bagged cements from PortLand following Federal Governments ban on packaged cement. Today, Ibeto has reinforced his manufacturing plants which accounts for increased production capacity that runs in millions of metric tonnes per annum, thereby stretching his storage capacity to over 50,000kg per annum.
Over the years, counting from 2005 when production started, Ibeto cement has amassed a loyal customer base both in Nigeria and the world at large.
