Current Holdings

The CCA Growth Fund

CCA is currently deploying the CCA Growth Fund (“CCAGF”) into making growth investments in high-potential SMEs operating in select sectors across Nigeria and Ghana.  Investors in the CCAGF include Kuramo Capital, the UK Government’s CDC, the Dutch development bank (FMO), the International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank Group), the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Agency (NSIA) and a number of High-Net-Worth Investors.

Appzone

Appzone is one of Nigeria’s leading financial technology services companies focused on offering bespoke solutions to financial institutions. The company has evolved into two businesses: Qore, Nigeria’s leading cloud-based enterprise banking solution provider, and Zone, a blockchain payment switching network.

Qore digitizes and automates transactions in the financial services space across 6 countries in Africa while Zone facilitates real-time payment transactions through its de-centralized switching infrastructure.

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Sector:Financial Services

Country:Nigeria

AfyA Care

AfyA Care is a healthcare investment platform with a portfolio of healthcare assets across the healthcare value chain (low-mid & mid-high end hospitals, health insurance and healthtech). Through its portfolio of companies and partnerships, the company makes quality healthcare accessible and affordable to the Nigerian market.

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Sector:Healthcare

Country:Nigeria

Quality Foods Africa (QFA)

QFA is one of Nigeria’s leading multi-brand Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) operators with a portfolio of high-quality international and local brands. The company is on a mission to provide QSR service of global standards to customers across its target markets. Today, QFA has 3 unique and complementary brands under its portfolio: Krispy Kreme, Dodo Pizza, and Scoop’d Ice Cream.

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Sector:Consumer Goods and Services

Country:Nigeria

EcoNation

EcoNation Recycling is a PET recycling company that converts waste PET bottles into premium hot-wash flakes for sale to global food-grade packaging companies. With operations in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom, EcoNation is transforming waste to wealth whilst actively contributing to global environmental sustainability.

Today, EcoNation champions ethical and traceable PET bottles collection, recycling, and reprocessing, thus playing a key role in the plastic recycling value chain.

 

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Sector:Industrials

Country:United Kingdom & Nigeria

Lyden Integrated Farms

Lynden Integrated Farms is a leading meat processing business located in the Southeastern region of Nigeria with a modern poultry infrastructure that produces high-quality table eggs, live birds and processed premium chicken meat. The business is contributing to solving the huge demand supply gap in Nigeria by driving local consumption of healthy and high-quality poultry meat at an attractive price point, as a key substitute to imported products

 

Sector:Agribusiness

Country:Nigeria

Legacy Investments

In addition to investing the CCAGF, the CCA team also currently manages a portfolio of investments carried over from its principal investing days.  Two of these businesses, Crest Agro and Dataguard, have been rolled into the CCA Legacy Holding Company, taking on additional investment capital from Kuramo Capital and the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority, in 2019.

Arco Marine

Arco Marine and Oilfield Services Limitedis a one of Nigeria’s leading indigenous marine logistics company companies. that Arco owns and operates a fleet of world-class vessels, with which it provides services such as security aond offshore support services to leading oil and gas firms in Nigeria.

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Sector:Marine Logistics

Country:Nigeria

Stoneworks

Stoneworks is a granite quarry business that supplies building aggregates for government, commercial and private construction. The company has built expertise over the years, to become one of the leading operators in Nigeria’s South-West region.

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Sector:Construction Materials

Country:Nigeria

Crest Agro

Crest Agro, one of Nigeria’s leading agribusinesses, is an integrated cassava farm and starch processing company. Crest started out providing food-grade starch to blue-chip FMCGs in Nigeria, and is developing a portfolio of cassava based food inputs. that supplies leading FMCGs in Nigeria. The company operates across the end-to-end cassava starch value chain through its starch processing plant and 13,000-ha cassava farm, and has deep community involvement through its outgrower program.

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Sector:Agribusiness

Country:Nigeria

Dataguard

Dataguard is a document management company that provides document storage and management solutions for businesses and government agencies. The company operates a state-of-the-art document warehouse for storage and electronic equipment for managing and digitizing information.

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Sector:Document Storage

Country:Nigeria

Exited Investments

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i-Fitness

i-Fitness is Nigeria’s leading wellness business – with the largest chain of gyms, as well as a range of other well-being platforms. Through its outlets and online platforms, the company offers a range of fitness and nutrition programs to help individuals achieve their health and body goals.

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Sector:Consumer Services

Country:Nigeria