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SSCG Consulting US Profile Driving Transformation and Growth Partners of Choice and Voice in Africa

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ABOUT SSCG We help clients find efficiencies to scale up growth and profitability.

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ABOUT SSCG At a Glance Leading Provider of Management Consulting, Advisory and Operation Support Professional Services SSCG Consulting is a global management consulting and professional firm. Provide diverse multi sector advisory, consulting and operation professional services. With network of member firms, we have been playing an important role in the UK and African markets. We have been working to help a wide range of private businesses and public organisations respond to shifting market trends and economic dynamics to capture opportunities and navigate challenges, transform to improve performance, increase value, competitive growth and profitability.

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ABOUT SSCG Global Footprint Our Network and Coverage Our global footprint, complemented by local expertise, defines and allows us to succeed in a very competitive environment. With operations in 9 countries, spanning Europe and Africa, we serve global customer base and offer a wider range of professional services redefining the competitiveness landscape. Our global network allows us to optimise resource utilisation and service delivery across our operations, minimise cost while enhancing speed and consistency of service delivery. United Kingdom

Belgium

United States

Ghana Nigeria

Uganda Kenya Rwanda Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe Malawi South Africa

Country Serviced New

We deliver a suite of high-quality tailored services with the capability to offer one stop shop solutions at our primary locations. The combination of local and global expertise continue to drive our success and allows us to respond quickly to changes in market conditions. Our model affords efficiencies and cost containment

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ABOUT SSCG SSCG Consulting US Helping Clients Capture Investment, Trade and Business Opportunities in the African Market for Competitive Growth SSCG Consulting US is a subsidiary of SSCG Consulting (SSCG Corporate Services Ltd) UK. We help our clients make distinctive transformations, drive sustainable growth with increased trust, confidence and greater collaboration. We provide informed perspective on the issues faced by our clients. The insights and solutions delivered to support our clients unlock new opportunities and consumer values, and build confidence in the markets and economies. Africa is going through transformation and remains the ‘last frontier’ with the best potential to develop in this century. Our shared vision is to participate in the transformation and be the “Partners of Choice in Africa” and be a key driver of business relations between Europe, the USA, Asia, Middle East and Africa. Our purpose is to support US Federal Government and private sector interest to ‘Prosper’ in Africa. Our ambition is to become the leading provider of transformation solutions, go to market and growth services in the region.

SSCG's Practices are credentialed consultancy functions dedicated at creating measurable and sustainable value for businesses around the globe in a variety of industries. We blends highly experienced consultants, engineering and business professionals. We help our clients deliver strategic objectives, transform operation processes, improve efficiency and navigate the increasingly complex regulatory and market challenges that you face. With passion and purpose, we work shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, integrating innovative approaches and deep expertise to deliver real results. We bring independence, objectivity , insight and a demonstrated ability to improve our clients performance to every assignment. Our aim is to help our clients deliver on their priorities, drive growth, improve operation capabilities, financial performance and customer value.. At SSCG, we measure our success against a broad range of metrics focused on delivering real results, with highly engaged people providing high quality, globally consistent services. We continually strive to raise our expectations of ourselves, to equal the high standards we set for our clients, our people and our communities. I am very excited about SSCG achievement, and the important role our brand identity will play. Trevor Simumba Senior Partner and Director SSCG Consulting US

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ABOUT SSCG Our Operation Business Model Lean, Agile and Resilient to Ensure SSCG Respond Quickly and Effectively to Client's Needs, Shifting Trends and Market Dynamics To support our clients make distinctive business impactful transformation, restructuring, strategy re-alignment and deploy lean improvements in their performance and processes to establish and growth competitive firms. We operate an agile and diverse business model with a global presence, a diversified customer base and a wide range of service offerings. With operations across a variety of developing markets, where we see strong growth potential mainly Africa, we believe we will continue to be able to mitigate the negative impact of downturns in the more developed markets. We aim to ensure our business model affords us a significant cost and service advantage. We seek to create closer partnerships with key customers to enable us provide integrated management services. We will continually seek better ways of working as we collaborate with our clients to help them solve complex industry issues and capitalize on opportunities to grow, optimise and protect their businesses. Our collaborative approach, combined with our global connectivity and understanding of industry issues, inspires us to ask better questions, design better answers and realize long-lasting results SSCG Consulting Profile 2018

MARKET UPDATE Africa offers profitable and impactful business opportunities for both investors and entrepreneurs.

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MARKET UPDATE Introduction In an era of unprecedented growth in global business activities, few regions of the world offer more untapped opportunity for international businesses than Africa. With nearly 1.2 billion population who have urgent needs for education, energy, environmental protection, clean water, financial services, food security, health care, housing, telecommunications, transportation, agricultural, industrial and tourism development among many others. Africa is growing, Africa is modernizing, Africa is the next global consumer market (projected to spend nearly $1 trillion by 2012, rivaling India and Russia), and Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s influence is rising. Africa today presents a huge consumer and industrial market for global companies and entrepreneurs.

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MARKET UPDATE Unlocking Growth Opportunities in Africa The last two decades has seen the implementation of complex structural adjustment programs in several countries in Africa. From a ‘hopeless continent’, Africa is now the rising economic power with many countries in Africa amongst the fastest growing economies in the world. More importantly, these countries have also undergone wide-ranging political reforms and have integrated their economies at a regional level through the African Union. Thanks to changes in fiscal and monetary policy, exchange rate regimes, and pricing and trade policy, externally oriented private sectors are emerging in several African countries. Africa is open for business! These countries are ready to take advantage of new trade and investment opportunities. Investing in frontier markets always has its challenges. Due to lack of knowledge about investments in these countries it’s very important to weigh the risk and returns of such markets. What are these "new trade and investment opportunities"? How can they be identified and evaluated? Significantly, how can US companies generate business opportunities out of these trade and investment areas? What types of market entry and promotion mechanisms can they use to gain a competitive advantage? What has been our respective record of success to date? What is the expected effect of recently negotiated international trade agreements on Africa's opportunities for expanded global trade, such as: extension of the USA African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA); the new USA Africa Strategy ‘Prosper Africa’; the new Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs, and EU Expansion through Economic Partnership Agreements with African countries; WTO; and the African sub-regional Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)? SSCG Consulting US Profile | info@sscg-group.com | www.sscg-group.com

MARKET UPDATE We Identified Opportunities in Several Areas New trade and investment policies.

New markets.

New products.

New modes of trade.

Governments need increased advisory services and support to implement new policies to promote trade and investment. They need support to build capacity within the various Ministries of Trade and Industry. More importantly at the regional level the African Union and all the key Regional Economic Communities across Africa continue to require highly skilled trade and investment expertise to assist and support implementation of deepening regional integration.

The biggest surge in international trade today comes from nontraditional exports. In agriculture, non-traditional exports translate into a wide range of fresh and processed specialty products, while within manufacturing, light engineering, textiles and agro-industrial products represents the most dynamic trade category. SSA countries require support in identifying these niche products and reorienting production structures towards these products.

Sub-Saharan Africa has traditionally exported to Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, North America. Today, other markets beckon, both far and near. African exporters are developing commercial links to markets around the world. At the same time, African exporters are encouraged to seek new commercial links in domestic markets, neighbouring countries, and within the Sub-Saharan region. This would require support in developing these key strategic business linkages.

Trade does not come about simply because an enterprise in one country sells a product which is purchased by an enterprise in another country. Today, trade is increasingly nurtured through subsidiary, partner, strategic alliances, and other offshore contracting relationships between sellers and buyers around the world. It is being shaped by firms competing on the basis not just of traditional comparative advantage (i.e., lowest factor cost), but also by other dimensions of competitiveness such as product quality in the broadest sense of the word.

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OUR SERVICES We help our clients respond to opportunities to enhance performance and value.

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SERVICES What we do We provide our customers with a full range of advisory, consulting and operation support services. We deliver high quality, efficient and top notch business services across the UK and the African market. SSCG's Global Practices is a credentialed consultancy functions dedicated at creating measurable and sustainable value for businesses around the globe in a variety of industries. We blend highly experienced consultants, engineering and business professionals. We help our clients deliver strategic objectives, transform operation processes, improve efficiency and navigate the increasingly complex regulatory and market challenges that you face. With passion and purpose, we work shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, integrating innovative approaches and deep expertise to deliver real results. Our ambition is to become the leading provider of transformation solutions and growth services.

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SERVICES Our Key Focus Areas We provide services to commercial and public sector clients in the USA, South America, Europe, and Asia with a stake in the development of economic and business relations with Africa in these key focus areas: 1.

Promote and Facilitate USA companies trade and investment in key sectors of energy, food and agro-processing, mining, transport infrastructure and manufacturing industries in SSA. 2. Corporate Advisory services and public policy analysis of macroeconomic and incentives/regulatory policies which provide the base for domestic industries to pursue competitiveness; 3. Investor support services and business development facilitation; 4. Assist firm level management to pursue dynamic strategies to achieve competitiveness by improving labour productivity; creative product/service development; quality of product and associated services; technology research, development, and commercialisation; worker motivation/flexibility; internal organization; and relationships with suppliers and customers; 5. Trade and export development support to both the public and private sector; 6. Conduct market research and provide strategic market intelligence on regional and international markets; 7. Trade logistics support and distribution services; 8. Infrastructure (physical, institutional, socio-political, human) development support and project management to facilitate African based public and private sector organizations to develop and exploit technology competitively; 9. Economic consulting and advisory services for major corporate clients 10. International development consulting services

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SERVICES Advisory In a world of unprecedented complexities and opportunities, businesses are looking to make new connections and find new ways of innovating. SSCG Advisory is continually seeking better ways of working as we collaborate with our clients to help them solve complex industry issues and capitalize on opportunities to grow, optimize and protect their businesses. Our collaborative approach, combined with our global connectivity and understanding of industry issues, inspires us to ask better questions, design better answers and realize long-lasting results Delivering significant medium and long term shifts in strategic direction, competiveness and performance often requires effective delivery of significant and complex strategic projects and transformation programmes. Dynamic businesses need a broad range of advisory services to support their ambitions and growth. SSCGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advisory services are designed to help our clients achieve business goals and ambitions. We work side by side with our clients to help them build effective businesses, innovate and grow, refocus business goals, transform strategies and models, reduce costs, manage crisis, risks, stay compliant with regulations and leverage talent. We work to ensure we remain at the forefront of top trends and issues facing the industries we work in.

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SERVICES Consulting SSCG Consulting Practice support clients to navigate the complex issues and challenges impacting their businesses and the rapidly evolving industries and markets they operate in. We bring a sharp perspectives, diverse experience working in different global markets and insights. Our professionals will not only advise clients on what to do, but become part of delivering the answer. They help them to make better decisions, reduce costs, build a more effective businesses and develop appropriate strategies. We helps our clients to identify and enter new markets, increase revenues in existing markets, improve operational performance, and deliver products and services more effectively and efficiently, and ultimately outpace their competitors. Through collaborative approach, We work to understand our clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business climate, operation, competitive dynamics, culture, objectives and challenges in order to provide effective and aligned solutions. In addition, we apply industry and market insights to our clients specific strategic and operational issues.

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SERVICES Operation Businesses today face a mix of challenges including permanent volatility, intensifying competition and digital disruption. Which means operations need to be as agile and lean as they are reliable. Industry convergence and digital business will disrupt traditional supply chains, a cornerstone of operations. Businesses need to move from linear processes involving discrete partners to a more fluid and integrated eco-system where visibility and speed are key. SSCG Operations Services helps clients implement their corporate strategies, improve productivity of their core operations and accomplish their business objectives. With broad operations and knowledge grounded in real-world experience, our deep sector and technical expertise, we transform our clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; core business and operations, helping them to drive growth, embrace the technology agenda and maximise operational efficiency. Our experience spans the major industrial asset classes from Automotive, Manufacturing, Industrial, Oil and Gas, Service Sectors to working with Government Institutions. Our people understand the challenges facing operations and help clients overcome them with comprehensive solutions, bring the breadth and depth of SSCGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capabilities to deliver real value by designing and running impactful transformation programmes.

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SERVICES Clients’ Value Creation and Delivery We are committed to creating value for our clients that returns many multiples of their investment. We deliver tangible and positive change, not simply presentations or ideas. We combine industry and functional skills for better results. We set our standard for value creation extremely high. SSCG value creation requires that our work deliver insightful thinking and change the mindset of our clients. Our work must lead directly to clients taking actions and executing their business in new ways. We endeavour to enhance client capabilities and deliver both competitive advantage and bottom-line impact. We hold ourselves accountable to our values and delivered standards by engaging candidly within our business and with clients about the level of value created by our joint efforts. We strive to provide high quality impactful solutions, a collaborative approach, insights and global outlook to help shape and grow our clients businesses.

For our clients, this translates into: • • • • •

Speed and flexibility delivery Distinctive and sustainable impact Transformative and innovative solutions Unparalleled expertise and best practices Operation and strategy integration best thinking

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SERVICES Selected Case Study Establishing and Strengthening Agro Products Processing and Agribusiness Value Chains to Enhance Growth, Boost Productivity, Reduce Food Loss and Waste.

BUSINESS NEEDS Our clients needed support to establish agro production processing and packaging plants in Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania SOLUTIONS We have and are working with our clients helping them to establish end to end agro processing and packaging facilities from strategy development and delivery, industrialisation, value chain development, facility planning, acquisition and delivery, product innovation and development, quality management.

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SERVICES Selected Case Study Strategy and Process Transformation for an Agri Financial Firm in Zimbabwe to Enhance Competitive Growth, Efficiency and Profitability.

BUSINESS NEEDS Our client was seeking support to transform their micro finance business strategy and processes for efficiency, accelerate growth and profitability. SOLUTIONS We have been working with our client to transform strategy and processes, develop a lean and agile business model, find efficiencies and integrate Fintech solutions to boost effectiveness, increase delivery speed and fund dispense, recovery and enhance risk oversight while increasing margins.

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SERVICES Selected Case Study Vehicle Quality Engineering, Product Development and Delivery (D&D), Lean Manufacturing and Process Optimisation.

BUSIINESS NEEDS Our automotive OEM clients was looking to enhance vehicle development, delivery, quality and assembly processes. SOLUTIONS We have been supporting various global OEM clients in the UK and Africa to enhance product quality across the value chain, customer satisfaction, concepts quality strategies, management systems and manufacturing process capabilities.

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EVENTS Selected Success Stories and Highlights We Constantly Connect and Engage with Multi-Sector Stakeholders to Stay Informed of Market Trends and Industry Top Issues.

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Key Contacts SSCG team are here to help. For more information and to discuss your specific requirements, contact:

Trevor Simumba Senior Partner and Director SSCG Consulting US

Dr Gbadebo O. A. Odularu Principal Consultant, Trade, Economics and Agribusiness

Email: Trevor.Simumba@sscg-group.com

Email: Gbadebo.Odularu@sscg-group.com

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Advisory | Consulting | Operation Corporate Outline SSCG Corporate Services Ltd. is an international UK based management professional firm registered in The UK and Wales under Company House number 100030395. SSCG member firms and its subsidiaries or affiliates, provide management consulting, advisory and operation professional services. SSCG name and logo are IP or trademarks of SSCG Group.

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