Qalaa Holdings is a leading investment company in Africa with major investments in infrastructure and industry across North and East Africa. We build sustainable businesses in industries that will be the engines of growth and economic development in Africa. The firm’s subsidiaries focus on industries such as energy, cement, agrifoods, transportation & logistics, and mining.
Qalaa Holdings has always taken the view that there is no better time to invest in Africa, which stands today as a 1 billion-person-strong consumer market and will be home to the world’s largest working-age population by 2040. Africa is also home to 7 out of the world’s top 10 fastest growing economies that are now sufficiently poised to support investments that will help meet the aspirations of the African people.
While Egypt remains our center of gravity and a springboard for most of our regional expansion, Qalaa holdings has been directly investing in Africa since 2006 and a rising number of its investments have originated in African economies other than Egypt such as the Rift Valley Railways (RVR), the national railway of Kenya and Uganda, which is helping open doors to intra-African trade.
Qalaa holdings has historically striven to invest and broaden investor interest in African opportunities particularly those that move away from pure commodities and towards value building and market making investments in infrastructure, manufacturing and value-added exports that will be catalysts for Africa’s growth.
From expansionary fiscal policy in the GCC to a broad trend toward liberalization in Africa, a new generation of policy makers is opening opportunities for private capital.
