Portugues Finance Minister Fernando Medina, who started today a visit to Luanda, until Thursday, at the invitation of his Angolan counterpart, Vera Daves de Sousa, was speaking to the press after visiting the company Angonabeiro.
According to the minister, the businessman and founder of Grupo Nabeiro – Delta Cafés, who died last March 19 in Lisbon, left “a unique work, unparalleled in Portugal, in the business area, in the area of innovation, but fundamentally as a person with a deep social conscience.
The minister pointed out that Rui Nabeiro was always “concerned about staying connected to his land, staying connected to his country, developing his land, his country, and worrying about those he could support at all times.
“A person with a great civic and political conscience, always participating in various moments of the country’s life,” the minister also stressed.
The Portuguese minister expressed satisfaction with the work done at the factory and its future projects, the new launches underway.
“It is also good to see that here we are replicating a little of the relationship and culture that Rui Nabeiro left in the company, basically a concern with local producers, a concern also to serve the communities with which the company relates, so it was a good start to the visit,” he said.
The Portuguese Finance Minister said he expected his visit to strengthen relations between Portugal and Angola and to contribute with his work “so that words can be translated into deeds.
The goal, he said, is that “obstacles will be solved, opportunities will be created, opportunities will be obtained for Portuguese companies, opportunities for the development of various projects in Angola and a very close relationship that also exists at the level of bilateral relations in the area of finance.
According to the minister, the visit also serves to take stock of the situation “and see what can be improved.
Fernando Medina emphasized that the bilateral cooperation between the two countries is “robust”, and the visit is an opportunity for the two ministers to continue to advance with the joint work, whether at the level of cooperation, technical relationship, and continuous support to various areas or at the level of multiple instruments signed.
Speaking to the press, Angonabeiro’s financial director, Carlos Gomes, pointed out that the company is currently exporting its product to Portugal and Switzerland.
“We recently exported a container to Switzerland and intend to continue on this path.”
“To project the Ginga brand, an Angolan brand, in the international market, currently in the European market, but always available to open doors to other geographies”, he said.
Carlos Gomes said that the company has started producing Ginga brand coffee capsules, initially only for the domestic market, “with 100% Angolan coffee,”
The product should be available on commercial surfaces within a month.
Currently, the company produces over 400 tonnes per year, between milled and beans, with an installed capacity to grow.