Ethiopia – TPLF Owned Guna to begin Coffee Export

Ethiopia – TPLF Owned Guna to begin Coffee Export

Guna Trading House Plc, which is owned by TPLF, Ethiopia’s ruling party, said it plans to become one of the nation’s biggest coffee exporters, raising concern among industry observers that private industry may get crowded out, according to a report by Bloomberg news..

The company began shipping the beans in July and aims to export at least 12,000 metric tons of coffee in the year through June, Mulualem Berhane, general manager of Guna, said in an interview on Oct. 22 in the capital, Addis Ababa, Bloomberg reports.

“We are intending to export to Europe, the U.S. and China,” he said, adding that Guna is among at least four other companies owned by the state or Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s ruling party intend to expand in the industry.

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For many Ethiopians, this is no secrete that businesses in Ethiopia are monopolized by the minority Tigre regime which controls every aspect of life in the country. Ethiopia’s economy, military and politics is under the total control of Tigre People’s Liberation Front.

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List of TPLF owned businesses.

Source: TekolaHagos.com

1- Zeleke Agricultural Mechanization PLC
2-Tikur Abbay Transport
3-Ambassel Commerce
4-Dashen Beer Factory
5-Amhara Meleso MaquaQuam
6-Solomon Tekeba
7-Biftu Dinsho
8-Oromia Credit Bank
9-Wendo Trading
10-Tikal Agri Tigrai
11-Trans Ethiopia
12-Mesebo Building Construction
13-Sebhat Nega PLC
14-Sor Construction
15-Mesfin Industrial Engineering
16-Saba Emnebered
17-Berhan Building Construction
18-Africa Insurance
19-Hiwaat Afrp Mechanization
20-Meskerem Investment
21-Tesfa Animal Develpmnet
22-Mega Publishers
23-Dinsho Share Company
24-Express Ethio Travel Service
25-Addis Transport
26-Almeda PLC
27-Guna Trade Services
28-Almeda Textile
29-Tigrai Tagai Association
30-Tigrai Development PLC
31-Addis Intl. Trading
32-Star Pharmaceutical Importers
33-Adwa Flour Factory
34-Radio Fana
35-Shala Advertisement
36-Mega Studio Enterprise
37-Computer Networking Technology
38-Izana Minerals
39-Wegagen Bank
40-Martha Poultry
41-Walta Indstry
42-Guna Coffee Exporters
43-Sheba Leather Trading
44-Brook Chemical Share Compnay
45-Kebede Channe
46-Taddesse Kassa
47-Kassa Tekleberhan
48-Hightech Park
49-National Electromechanical
50-Express Transit Services