PATRICIA POKU-DIABY
CEO, PLOT ENTERPRISE GHANA LIMITED
Wealth: SELF MADE, COCOA
Known For: PLOT ENTERPRISE
OVERVIEW
Patricia Poku-Diaby was involved in her family’s business (trading and transportation) before she set up the Plot Enterprise Group in Ivory Coast, which was a precursor to the Ghanaian company.
Plot Enterprise Ghana is wholly Ghanaian owned cocoa processing company. The group has market presence in Asia and West Africa and comprises; Plot Commodities (registered with the Dubai Metal and Commodities Centre in Dubai), Plot Enterprise in Ivory Coast and Plot Enterprise Ghana.
Plot Commodities deals in cotton and cocoa and is registered with the Cocoa Merchants Association of America. Plot Enterprise in Ivory Coast is engaged in the trading of cocoa, cashew nut and wood products.
Plot Enterprise Ghana has a plant which has an annual initial bean input capacity of 32,000 metric tonnes. The implementation of the project began in 2006 with trial runs starting in November 2009.The plant was fully commissioned in January 2010.
NET WORTH SUMMARY
Plot Enterprise Ghana is registered in Ghana as a Free Zones company. The company has its own cocoa processing plant which completed in late 2009 as a turnkey project by Buhler Barth of Germany. This state-of-the-art grinding facility is located in Takoradi is currently valued at $90 million and processes 32,000 metric tons of cocoa annually into liquor, butter and cake.
The company has over 200 staff and exports to the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.
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