Dangote Sugar Refinery launches $32 million commercial paper to fund expansion
The Series 7 paper, with a 270-day tenor, offers a 24.5524 percent discount rate and a 30 percent implied yield.
The Series 7 paper, with a 270-day tenor, offers a 24.5524 percent discount rate and a 30 percent implied yield.
Despite challenges, Dangote Sugar aims to leverage the funds raised from the Notes to meet its operational and growth objectives.
With banks offering limited options, companies like Dangote Sugar are turning to the fixed-income market for alternative financing.
Dangote highlighted the importance of the government’s national backward integration policy, which aims to create a self-sufficient domestic sugar industry by incentivizing local producers.
Dangote Sugar’s $49.6-million first-quarter 2024 loss stemmed primarily from a $74-million foreign exchange loss from the group’s business operations.
Dangote Sugar Refinery currently boasts a refining capacity of 1.44 million metric tonnes, making it Nigeria’s largest household and commercial sugar producer.
This remarkable milestone has further solidified Dangote’s status as the richest man on the African continent.
Dangote Sugar has also announced plans for a proposed merger with Nascon Allied Industries Plc and Dangote Rice Limited.
The surge in the shares of Dangote Cement, Africa’s largest cement company, was the driving force behind Dangote’s resurgence.
The merger between Dangote Sugar and Nascon, along with Dangote Rice, is among the matters to be deliberated during the upcoming board of directors meeting.
Dangote commits $700 million to expand sugar business, boost sugar sufficiency in Nigeria.
Dangote Sugar Refinery is a leading sugar business.
Dangote derives most of his wealth from an 86-percent stake in Dangote Cement.
Dangote Group is poised to cement its position as the second-largest employer of labor in Nigeria.
Dangote owns 72.3 percent of Dangote Sugar Refinery.