Dangote reaffirms provide chain, digital development drive

The President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, on Thursday reaffirmed the conglomerate’s dedication to strengthening its provide chain, deepening digital capabilities, and sustaining customer-driven development, as he addressed stakeholders on the Nascon 2025 Prospects’ Dinner and Awards Evening in Abuja.

Dangote, Africa’s richest man, instructed prospects, board members, and executives that the occasion mirrored each the group’s journey and its ahead technique. “That is an occasion that truly displays not solely how far we’ve got come as a gaggle, but additionally how we intend to maneuver ahead,” he stated.

As Group President overseeing a diversified conglomerate working throughout a number of markets and client segments, Dangote pressured that buyer partnerships stay central to the group’s enterprise mannequin.

“As a gaggle president, I’ve the privilege of overseeing the diversified group working throughout a number of markets, manufacturers, and client segments. Regardless of this range, our precept unites all our operations,” he stated, including, “Sturdy prospects’ partnerships are the inspiration of sustainable development in our group.”

He famous that the group had undergone important transformation in recent times, increasing manufacturing capability, strengthening its model portfolio, and modernising distribution methods.

“Over the previous a number of years, our group has advanced considerably. Now we have expanded our manufacturing capability, strengthened our model portfolio, and modernised our go-to-market methods. Every of those milestones was influenced by buyer wants and market realities,” he stated.

Dangote acknowledged the function of distributors and commerce companions in supporting product launches and market enlargement, particularly throughout troublesome macroeconomic circumstances.

“Most of the prospects current tonight have walked this journey with us, supporting the brand new product launches, increasing distribution into new territories, and standing by our manufacturers in periods of financial uncertainty. We should actually thanks for all the time standing by us,” he acknowledged.

In keeping with him, the awards offered on the occasion recognise the breadth of excellence inside the firm’s buyer base. He additionally counseled the administration crew for organising the occasion, describing buyer recognition as each a strategic and industrial crucial.

Trying forward, Dangote outlined the group’s funding priorities, linking them on to buyer suggestions and market realities.

“Trying forward, we are going to proceed to spend money on model fairness, provide chain effectivity, sustainability, and digital capabilities. However these investments solely create worth when they’re aligned with buyer realities. Your continued engagement and suggestions stay very, very crucial to us,” he stated.

Talking earlier on the occasion, the Chairman of the Board of Nascon Allied Industries Plc and Dangote Group’s Vice President, Mr Olakunle Alake, stated the corporate’s long-term development will depend on deep buyer partnerships and constant market execution in an more and more aggressive FMCG panorama.

Alake described the occasion as “each symbolic and strategic,” noting that it publicly affirms customer support as a core worth whereas reinforcing collaboration as the idea for enlargement.

He instructed attendees that “long-term development is constructed on collaboration and never on transactions,” stressing that sturdy distribution networks and retail relationships stay crucial to sustaining market efficiency and shareholder confidence.

Alake added that whereas the corporate is accountable to shareholders and regulators, its efficiency in the end rests on prospects who inventory and promote its manufacturers throughout markets.

He stated the awards recognise companions which have delivered scale, consistency and development over time, including that customer support is “not only a core worth, it’s a strategic asset” in an surroundings of fragile loyalty and intense competitors.

Additionally talking on the occasion, the newly appointed Group Government Director of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals, Fatima Aliko Dangote, thanked prospects for what she described as years of loyalty and belief which have supported the corporate’s enlargement.

She instructed distributors that their efficiency throughout markets had instantly formed the group’s outcomes.

In her remarks, the not too long ago appointed Group Government Director, Business, Cement and Meals, at Dangote Industries Restricted, Mariya Aliko Dangote, stated her early days overseeing the meals enterprise had strengthened the significance of commerce partnerships.

“I not too long ago assumed the accountability of our meals enterprise within the capability of Group Government Director, Business operations, and one fact is already clear to me: our success is constructed with you and together with your unwavering help,” she stated, including that efficiency available in the market is in the end pushed by buyer suggestions and execution.

The Managing Director of NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Aderemi Saka, stated the awards have been designed to recognise prospects whose development has mirrored that of the corporate, stressing that NASCON’s efficiency is intently linked to the energy of its distribution community.

Saturday PidomNigeria learnt that the corporate, often known as Dangote Salt, honoured 50 prospects on the 2025 dinner. Talking on behalf of the awardees, Ali Balarabe counseled the board and administration for what he described as constant engagement with distributors, after receiving a 20-tonne truck and a money credit score.

He pledged to maintain his help for the model, whereas different recipients of truckload awards and money credit included Alhaji Ibrahim Achida, Muabsa Built-in Providers, Fanisau Enterprises, Idris Saleh Nigeria Restricted, Sani Adamu Dealer and GIA World Idea.

The PidomNigeria earlier reported in August 2025 that Nascon Allied Industries Plc recorded a revenue of N15.6bn for the half-year ended June 30, 2025, representing a 222 per cent enhance from the N4.8bn posted within the corresponding interval of 2024.

The corporate’s income rose by 55 per cent to N78.2bn from N50.4bn in the identical interval final yr, in accordance with its unaudited monetary statements launched on Monday.

Working revenue surged 196 per cent to N21.3bn within the first half of 2025, up from N7.2bn within the earlier yr. Revenue earlier than tax stood at N23.3bn, greater than tripling the N7.2bn reported within the corresponding interval of 2024.