Meet A 28 Year Old Gambian That Built A Million Dollar Business Exporting Local Produce To Europe And Asia

Posted by: lukwago J in Entrepreneurship April 17, 2017

Momarr Mass Taal says he got into business by accident. The 28-year-old wanted to be a diplomat like his dad.

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At the age of 17, The Gambia-born entrepreneur, printed t-shirts for fun, then for friends and gradually grew into a clothing brand, Malyka Clothing.

Within a few years he was manufacturing in Bangladesh and selling in five countries. .

“With the intention to build a business that would address the lack of value addition for our local produce, I found that most local producers, particularly farmers, had market access problems and I set about building a business which used value addition to create that market.”Tropingo Foods, a groundnut and mango processing and export company, was born.

He exports to Asia and Europe and is building a food dehydration processing facility in Gambia.

“We are a sustainable food processing company based in The Gambia with regional ambitions. Our Groundnut processing and export business in 2015 is officially the largest exporter of groundnut in Gambia,” he said.

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Momarr has 140 employees, 120 of which are women. He turned over $1.6 million in 2015.

Source: African leadership

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