Groupe Mimran

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The Groupe Mimran is in Monaco -based group of companies. It is a family business that has been run by Jean-Claude Mimran since 1975 . Its core business is the production of food in Senegal and Ivory Coast .

Company data

The group of companies basically comprises three companies:

The group employs (as of 2016) 6,700 people, processes 530,000 tons of wheat annually, produces 100,000 tons of sugar, 600,000 tons of flour, 110,000 tons of animal feed and 8,000,000 liters of bio-ethanol. It is the largest employer in Senegal after the state.

history

Nachson Mimran and colleagues in Richard Toll on a sugar cane harvester

The Algerian-born founder of the group, Jacques Mimran, who grew up in modest circumstances as a French Algerian and Sephardic Jew , was the director of several flour mills in Morocco before he realized his goal of building large industrial mills in the growing urban centers of Sub-Saharan Africa. In 1946 he began building the Grands Moulins de Dakar . In 1963 the Grands Moulins d'Abidjan followed .

In 1970, the Compagnie Sucrière Sénégalaise , a large agro-industrial complex with a sugar cane plantation and a factory for the extraction of molasses, sugar and ethanol, began in the alluvial plain of the Senegal River around Richard Toll . When Jacques Mimran died in the middle of the development phase in 1975, the then President of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Senghor , said that he was the actual founder of Senegalese industry. His son Jean-Claude Mimran led the project in Richard Toll to success, not least because of the activities of the organization pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal from 1972 and the completion of the Diama dam in 1986 and a 16-kilometer connecting canal between the Senegal river and the Lac de Guiers fresh water reservoir, which is eminently important for the whole country, the supply of the plantation and the whole city with fresh water could be ensured all year round.

Jean-Claude Mimran's two brothers are also involved in the group. In the third generation, the family story continues with the grandchildren David and Nachson, who have taken on and strengthened their commitment to Africa, where the group is a powerful instrument for economic and social development.

In addition to services and banking, the group also includes the Canadian mining company Teranga Gold , which has been operating a gold mine in the open-cast mine near Sabodala in the southern Senegalese region of Kédougou since 2009 . Phosphate mines are also part of the company; furthermore, the hotel “The Alpina Gstaad” remains to be named.

In 2018 the milling operations in Dakar and Abidjan were sold to Seaboard.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Groupe Mimran: Key Group figures ( Memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Groupe Mimran: History of the group ( Memento of 25 March 2016 Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The players of the Senegalese national football team are as the Teranga Lions announced
  4. ↑ Impact of David Mimran becoming primary stakeholder in Canada's Teranga Gold
  5. ↑ Jean-Claude Mimran vend les moulins de Dakar Grand à Seaboard

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