Vester Oil Mills is one of the top five oil seed mill operators in Ghana and specialises in the processing of soya bean, palm kernel nut and copra (dried coconut kernel) into refined edible oils and their residual cakes for domestic and industrial use.
Key facts
- Status:
- Active
- Region
:
Since 2012, we’ve only invested in Africa and South Asia. Investments outside these regions are from our pre-2012 portfolio.
- Africa, West Africa
- Countries:
- Ghana
- Sector
:
We have seven priority sectors. However, we continue to invest outside these sectors, largely in the most challenging regions, as new investment supporting any sector helps to underpin the private sector, and create jobs and livelihoods for people.
- Food and agriculture
- Investment type
:
We provide capital in three broad ways: direct equity, debt, and intermediated equity (principally through investment funds).
- Intermediated investment
- Fund:
- Synergy Private Equity Fund
- Fund Manager:
- Synergy Managers (Mauritius) Limited
- Start date
:
For direct investments, this is the date CDC committed capital to the business or project.
For funds, this is the date that CDC committed capital to the fund.
For underlying fund investments, this is the date that the fund invested capital into the business.e
- September 2016
- Domicile
:
This is the investee company’s place of incorporation; or a fund’s jurisdiction.
- Ghana
