Profile Sunsia
Background SUNSIA
Professional services for African-European business
Sunsia in brief
Sunsia is a professional services firm, founded early 2002 to assist private companies from Europe and from Africa in growing their joint business.
• For European companies, Sunsia provides access to Africa by finding them reliable partners, by doing market and location studies, by assisting them in operational issues and by obtaining financing.
• Sunsia assists African companies in their growth and development by finding trade and investment partners from Europe, by helping to obtain financing, by doing market studies and by tackling all kinds of trade barriers.
• Since it’s establishement, Sunsia has helped to realize dozens of projects all over Africa, in various business sectors. Sunsia is a guide in all stages of a project: from the first idea to full scale operations.
Unlocking Africa
Africa is a continent with enormous potential. The speed of development offers huge opportunities for high revenues. Many well-qualified African private companies offer good options for co-operation.
Yet, doing business with the African continent is complex. How to find the right public contacts and reliable business partners? How to obtain financing for high-risk operations?
How to cope with bureaucracy and corruption?
Sunsia is a well-established professional partner for companies that get confronted with these issues. With it’s extensive African network and it’s unique competences, Sunsia helps unlocking Africa.
Establishing African-European business
Unlocking African potential often requires international co-operation. African exporters need European trade partners, African entrepreneurs with growth potential need European investment partners, and so on. Unfortunately the international market is complex. Who guides you through complex procedures? Who finds reliable partners? Who helps obtaining financing and funding? who gets you market intelligence?
Sunsia understands the African entrepreneur and has good access to the European private sector. Based on it’s specialist experience and skills, Sunsia can guide you through complex procedures in the administrative and financing domain.
Sunsia’s services
Sunsia provides all necessary services for African-European business:
• Partnersearch and match making
• Export and sourcing strategies
• Market surveys and feasibility studies
• Finding and obtaining financing and funding
• Assistance in administrative procedures
• Project implementation and technical assistance.
Our offices
Sunsia’s head office is in The Hague, The Netherlands.
On the African continent we have offices in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Bamako (Mali), Cotonou (Benin) and Kigali (Rwanda). Late 2007 we open offices in Tema (Ghana) and Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).
Contact Details
Sunsia B.V.
Mahamadi Kaboré or Michiel Hillen
Schokkerweg 3
P.O. Box 82165
2508 DE The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel +31 70 3062234
Fax +31 70 3063532
Email info@sunsia.com
Web www.sunsia.com
Target Group
Dutch companies interested in:
Investments in Africa;
Exports to Africa;
Imports from Africa;
Communication and co-operation with Africa.
Western authorities and non governmental organisations (NGO's) that want to:
Stimulate the development of the African private sector;
Promote the interaction between Dutch and African companies.
African companies:
Interested in exporting to Europe;
Interested in importing from Europe;
In need of funding;
Searching for European investment partners;
Interested in co-operating with Western development aid organisations.
African authorities and NGO's aiming at:
Creating a favourable climate for the private sector;
Improving the investment climate for Western companies.
