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Gabriel Ebele Kondo: Any one know for packaging

After Printing Press Center, he created Pack Industry, a company manufacturing cartons. Lazarus Kolyang

If work practices had not changed much in business, maybe Gabriel Ebele Kondo would never have launched this initiative. But after several years have created in Douala, in 1984, the printing Press Center, things soon changed. "The computer paper used, and that we made was for the preparation of invoices and receipts, no longer works. People currently using the simple type of A4 paper for their operations," he says. He had to change and do something else. Ebele Kondo and Gabriel did not go far to find another niche, just as a carrier. "I had already found in the printing of the cartons still need to wrap the papers, and it was not always easy. That's how I make a cabinet for a market study that made me realize that there was room for a fourth operator alongside the three other pre-existing, "he says. The president of the company Industry Pack, born there almost three years, knows he will need time to get a place in the sun, finding customers. Without naming names, the industry that employs approximately 140 people and located in the outskirts of the city of Douala, up to Yaounde, boasts a rich portfolio of twenty companies. Who are supplied, depending on the request of either, cartons of all sizes made from raw materials, glue, paper, fully imported. Apart from steam, single element locally manufactured. Computer paper to cardboard, Gabriel Ebele Kondo is fully remained in the same area. "I do not like being dispersed," he defends himself. But a few years ago, he has been tempted by an adventure in another area. In advertising, among others. It was in 1982, with Antar Gassagay, then CEO of the company Sapi Baringer. "I was his executive vice president of sales," remembers there. From there he will leave in 1984 to create Press Center, also in liquidation. The latest entrant in the market cratons is wavy now shares with its competitors, 27,000 tons of paperboard per year for local businesses. Except those who are in the export of bananas. They directly import their boxes. The prices are based on the weight of the board, on its surface but also on the quantity ordered. Here, almost everything is custom made. "We only manufacture the quantities which we are invited. For it is not advisable cartion stoker for a long time," he says. Working conditions a little tricky, not even facilitated by the availability of raw materials. It is also, according Gabriel Ebele Kondo, a sector that requires large working capital, "about 1 billion francs CFA per quarter. Creating Industry Pack is for him the culmination of a long career that began in France. After, first, studied accounting at the School of Business and Management in Paris and then the business school of the same city, it is between 1978 and 1981, electronic components trader at Marcel Dassault , a manufacturer of mirages. After a brief stint in the service purchase, such as negotiating for the Africa department at the headquarters of the Scoa in Paris, in Douala, as chief marketing department, he completes its collaboration with the French dealer.