Sectors we are designed to serve

Co-ops Africa can support a wide range of cooperative business models. The following sectors provide a useful starting point.

Industry verticals

Each sector can carry its own promotional video or imagery, financing context and sector notes, managed from the Website CMS.

Sectors of focus

Five verticals, five different routes to finance, inputs and markets

Hover a sector to see the financing context and the trading channels it reaches through the platform.

Sector

Agriculture and food systems

Agricultural production, irrigation, mechanisation, aggregation, storage, food processing and agricultural commodity marketing.

Financing context. Eligibility, tenor and security for this vertical are assessed per cooperative before any facility is offered.

Trading channel. Inputs and equipment trade through Agricultural Inputs & Seed on the Co-op Store; production finance and commodity-backed issuance are handled on CDEx.

Sector

Manufacturing and processing

Cooperative-owned manufacturing, shared equipment, packaging, value addition and local industrial production.

Financing context. Eligibility, tenor and security for this vertical are assessed per cooperative before any facility is offered.

Trading channel. Inputs and equipment trade through Manufacturing Machinery on the Co-op Store; production finance and commodity-backed issuance are handled on CDEx.

Sector

Mining and natural resources

Eligible mining cooperatives, mineral processing, productive equipment and formalised commodity supply chains.

Financing context. Eligibility, tenor and security for this vertical are assessed per cooperative before any facility is offered.

Trading channel. Inputs and equipment trade through Mining Equipment on the Co-op Store; production finance and commodity-backed issuance are handled on CDEx.

Sector

Property and construction

Cooperative housing, property development, building-material procurement and community infrastructure.

Financing context. Eligibility, tenor and security for this vertical are assessed per cooperative before any facility is offered.

Trading channel. Inputs and equipment trade through Construction Materials on the Co-op Store; production finance and commodity-backed issuance are handled on CDEx.

Sector

Retail, services and enterprise

Cooperative retail, business services, transport, distribution, creative industries and other member-owned enterprises.

Financing context. Eligibility, tenor and security for this vertical are assessed per cooperative before any facility is offered.

Trading channel. Inputs and equipment trade through Consumer Goods on the Co-op Store; production finance and commodity-backed issuance are handled on CDEx.

Important information

These are potential sectors of focus, not a representation that all sector-specific financing or trading products are currently available.

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