Flour Mills of Nigeria

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Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN) is a diversified Nigerian agribusiness company, it was founded in 1960 by George S. Coumantaros. FMN employs over 12,000 people.[1]

FMN was founded by George S. Coumantaros in 1960 as a private limited company and in 1978 became a public company, with its shares listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.[1]

The chairman of FMN since 2014, and its former CEO is the founder's son, John Coumantaros.[2][3]

The current CEO is Omoboye Olusanya

Flour Mills today, is a holding company with a vertically integrated business model.[4]

The flagship brand of the company is Golden Penny Flour.[5]

History[]

Flour Mills started operations in 1962, the first wheat mill plant in Nigeria, it was built at a cost of £2.5m financed by Greek and American capital[6] through Southern Star Shipping company.[7] Initial annual production was 120,000 tonnes.[6] The company's Apapa complex has bulk unloading and storage capabilities with a mill to process North American wheat blends. In 1964, the company expanded its offering with the establishment of a polypropylene manufacturing plant that traded under the business name Nigerian Bag Manufacturing Company Limited.[7] The initial facility also processed wheat offals to be exported.[6]

By 1971, the annual capacity of its wheat mill was 300,000 tonnes.[6] In 1975, the company bought minority equity interest in Northern Nigeria Flours Mills, Kano and later acquired interest in Niger Mills of Calabar.[6] In the late 1970s, the company was listed on the Nigerian Stock exchange.

The FMN brand sprouted from a single commodity company , to a conglomerate operating in key sectors of the Nigerian economy. They operate in four major sectors of Food, Su, Agro-allied, Port Operations and Logistics, Packaging and Real Estate. They operate a vertically integrated supply food chain amongst their other business

In 1990, another polypropylene manufacturing business was established in 1997 in Northern Nigeria trading under the business name Northern Bag Manufacturing Company, two years later Golden Shipping Company was established. In 1997, an extension of business offerings led to the founding of a fertilizer marketing business,[7] expansion continued with the introduction of a cement partnership UNICEM in 2002, port management trading under the name Apapa Bulk Terminal in 2004, Golden Transport in 2008 and Premier Feeds in 2010.[7] In August 2015, a holding company, Excelsior Shipping was established to manage the affairs of some of its subsidiaries.[7] Apapa Bulk Terminal operates Terminal A and B at Apapa Port.

The company operated a bulk cement bagging operation at Apapa trading Burham Cement, following compliance with government regulations to promote local cement manufacturing that operation was discontinued at the firm went into a partnership with Orascom to establish a cement facility at Mfanmosing, Cross River State.[5]

In 2021, FMN acquired 71.6% of Honeywell Group's Honeywell Flour Mills Plc.[8][9]

Subsidiaries[4][10][]

2016
Subsidiary Interest (%) Line of business
Apapa Bulk Terminal 100 Logistics/Support
Northern Nigeria Flour Mills 52.6 Consumer goods
Nigerian Eagle Flour Mills 51 Consumer goods
Niger Mills 100 Consumer goods
Golden Pasta 100 Consumer goods
Golden Noodles 100 Food/consumer goods
Golden Sugar 100 Food.consumer goods
Golden Shipping Co 100
 Logistics
Premier Feed 62 Agro-allied
ROM Oil Mills 90 Agro-allied
Kaboji Farms 100 Agro-allied
UNICEM 22 other
Nigerian Bag Manufacturing Company 100 support

References[]

  1. ^ a b "About Us". FMN. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  2. ^ John George Coumantaros (2014-09-10). "John George Coumantaros: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  3. ^ "John Coumantaros, Director". Oxbow.com. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  4. ^ a b "The Global Intelligence Files - Flour Mills of Nigeria". wikileaks.org. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  5. ^ a b "In Focus: Flour Mills". Corporate Nigeria. IMC--International Media Communications GmbH. 2006.
  6. ^ a b c d e Andræ, Gunilla; Beckman, Björn (1985). The wheat trap : bread and underdevelopment in Nigeria (1. publ. ed.). London: Zed Books in association with Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. pp. 34–44. ISBN 0862325218.
  7. ^ a b c d e Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc MarketLine Company Profile. MarketLine, a Progressive Digital Media business. (January 2016)
  8. ^ Femi Adekoya (22 November 2021). "FMN, Honeywell Flour Mills merge under N80billion shares transfer deal". The Guardian. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
  9. ^ Nseobong Okon-Ekong; Kayode Tokede (November 23, 2021). "Honeywell Group Agrees N80bn Deal with Flour Mills of Nigeria". The Nation. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
  10. ^ MarketScreener. "FLOUR MILLS OF NIGERIA PLC. : Stock Price | MarketScreener". www.marketscreener.com. Retrieved 2019-09-08.

External links[]

Official website

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