| Company type | Société anonyme |
|---|---|
| Industry | textile, [[]] |
| Founded | 1965 |
| Headquarters |  Cote d'Ivoire |
Filtisac or Filatures, Tissages, Sacs - Côte d'Ivoire is an Ivorian company in the textile sector[1]. Since 1965, it has manufactured natural fiber bags for Industrial Promotion Services (IPS). Launched in 1965 to accompany the growth in exportations of coffee-cacao in Côte d'Ivoire. This manufacturing unit allowed Filtisac to access various African and European markets.
History
editThe entreprise, founded August, 4 1965 by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, its main shareholder[2], and inaugurated March, 16 1967 in the presence of President Houphouët-Boigny and his wife, Prince Agha khan, tous les membres du gouvernement, et de nombreuses personnalités ivoiriennes qu'accompagnait le corps diplomatique au grand complet}}. At the start, the business had an annual production of from 6 to 8 million bahs depending entirely on raw imported jute[3]. Its main supplier was Bangladesh[4].
In 1988, Filtisac diversified with the creation of a synthetic-fibre packaging manufacturing unit, intended to cover the packaging needs of products such as cotton, rice, fertilizer, la minoterie[2]. A la fin de l'année 2015, Filtisac détient 30 % des parts de marché des sacs en fibres synthétiques en Côte d'Ivoire[5]. In 2016, the company has about 1,300 employees across its eleven subsidiaries in five west-african countries : Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Cameroon[6].
References
edit- ^ Éditions les 4 Points Cardinaux, ed. (1980). Côte d'Ivoire. p. 132.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|subtitle=ignored (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link) - ^ a b MTH Multimedia S.L., ed. (2009). Côte d'Ivoire (in French). Madrid/Joué-les-Tours. p. 112. ISBN 978-84-935202-6-7.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|total pages=ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Expansion du commerce agricole entre pays en développement
- ^ Arnold Werbeloff (1987). Textiles in Africa. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-9512512-0-1.
{{cite book}}: More than one of|pages=and|page=specified (help); Unknown parameter|pages totales=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|sous-titre=ignored (help) - ^ "Wara relève la note de Filtisac au même niveau que le plafond souverain ivoirien". Financial Afrik (in French). 22 August 2016.
- ^ "Côte d'Ivoire : la note du fabricant d'emballages Filtisac revue à la hausse". Jeune Afrique (in French). 23 August 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
External links
edit[[Catégorie:Entreprise ayant son siège en Côte d'Ivoire]] [[Catégorie:Emballage alimentaire]]