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GAFCO's Vision

GAFCO's overriding business focus is:

• to be a leading supplier of quality foodstuffs in Ghana, and to export semiprocessed and processed agricultural products to West Africa, to West and East Europe;
  
  
• to produce quality products, specially adapted to market needs and to assure a consistent supply of these products to consumers;
  
  
• to achieve these goals through the use of an integrated agricultural processing strategy developed and pioneered by its majority owner, Industrie-Bau Nord AG; and
  
  
• through the use of an integrated strategy combined with favorable labour rates and local raw material prices, to implement a competitive pricing strategy and to increase profits and the return to shareholders by adding value to low margin by-products.

GAFCO's second level of complimentary goals include the following:

• to meet the nutritional needs of Ghanaians by producing food products in three primary food types ( starches, proteins and fats);
  
  
• to contribute to the development of the agricultural sector in Ghana in order to move the country away from import dependence in primary foodstuffs; and
  
  
• as a result of the above, to contribute to the economic development of the country by creating employment, reducing the need to use foreign currency for food imports and creating new eco- nomic stimulus by supporting the development of the agricultural and the agro-industrial sectors.

GAFCO's master development plan is to move simple integration of grain mills, fish canning and edible oil mills into full integration to include the production of bread, the manufacture of starch, and the creation of a farm service organization to develop local agriculture.