Angonabeiro expects to increase business volume in Angola by 15% this year, consolidating the country as one of the pillars of global turnover, responsible for around 30% of the total, according to the group’s executive president.
“Angola is worth 30% of what the international markets are”, highlighted Rui Miguel Nabeiro, grandson of the founder of the coffee group, Rui Nabeiro, during the launch of the book “O Legado do Meu Avô”, in Luanda.
The manager recalled that the only factory the group has outside of Campo Maior is in Luanda. Opened in 2001, this unit produces around 400 tons of roasted Ginga brand coffee and three million capsules per year.
Angonabeiro also exports around a thousand tons of green coffee to Portugal, according to company data.
Rui Miguel Nabeiro also highlighted that “it has a very relevant product portfolio” and acts “as a partner for customers, both in the restaurant and retail segments”, currently employing more than 180 workers in Angola.
Regarding the group’s historical relationship with the country, the official recalled Rui Nabeiro’s strong emotional connection to Angola, which he visited in 1975.
“The relationship that my grandfather had with Angola was a very close, very affectionate relationship, very much from the heart, because he said he saw everything that Delta was in Angola”, he recalled.
The current leader of the Nabeiro group describes the work on Rui Nabeiro’s legacy as a management book about the methods and the way his grandfather “looked at the world of management”.
“It is a source of great pride and recognition to be here to launch it,” he said.
In the book, Rui Miguel Nabeiro proposes a reading about leadership inspired by the example of the group’s founder, based on values of proximity and humanity.
“The expectation is to see human, close management, and how it is possible for a company to make profits, make money and at the same time be close to the community, employees and customers”, he explained.
The manager highlighted that the group is committed to “strengthening Angola’s role as the group’s largest producer in terms of coffee”, and announced that the company supports 12 women farmers who supply coffee to Angonabeiro.
“We have made a huge effort and our great expectation is that Angola can once again have a dimension in green coffee”, he stated.
Rui Miguel Nabeiro, who took office in the administration in 2009, highlighted that he had been prepared “over more than 20 years” for the succession.
“I was very lucky, being able to have this testimony with him in life. The challenge is accepted and, as someone once mentioned, if you don’t like heat, don’t go in the kitchen. I’m in the kitchen, I have to like heat”, he concluded.
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