african manufacturing Archives

23 Sep 16

LagosHats Visits PROPAK West Africa Exhibit

We visited the PROPAK West Africa Exhibit today (Sep 22, 2016), which was held at the Landmark Events Centre in Lekki, Lagos. The exhibit is proclaimed as the “largest packaging, food processing, plastics, labelling and print exhibition in West Africa” by the organizers, Afrocet Montgomery. Afrocet Montgomery is a new partnership…

05 Feb 16

The benefits of manufacturing in Nigeria

Nigeria has a current population of close to 200 million people. If you don’t think that’s substantial enough, consider that there are only six countries in the world that have a population bigger than that of Nigeria. From an economic perspective, that’s a huge market and there is a…

12 Jul 15

Prof. James Patell: Manufacturing in Africa can unleash untapped potential

James Patell is the Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is is a Business School Professor with an Engineer’s training. He and his three brothers worked in their father’s tool and die shop as teenagers, and then he went to MIT,…