- JFPI Corporation
Infobox_Company
company_name = JFPI Corporation
company_type = Private| company_slogan = Difficulties, we overcome immediately; Impossibilities may take a little longer.
foundation =1982
location =Kinshasa ,Democratic Republic of the Congo
key_people = André Action Diakité Jackson, Executive Chairman
num_employees = 3260 (2007)
industry =Mining andFinancial Services
products =Diamonds and GovernmentConsulting
homepage = [http://www.jfpicorp.com/ www.jfpicorp.com]JFPI Corporation is an international closed-end investment and economic empowerment
conglomerate based inAfrica .While 100% of the shares are owned by private individuals, it is managed by a 53-member
Board of Directors , representing each nation contained by Africa.JFPI promotes the growth of productive private enterprise throughout Africa and is the continent's leading advocate of
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE).It invests in
private enterprise s in such countries withoutgovernment guarantee and its investments form part of a larger amount of capital put up by private local or foreign investors.JFPI also invests in projects financed jointly by African governments and private investors.
The
multinational corporation also provides financing by investing in the enterprises capital stock, by granting loans or by combinations of the two.In addition to conducting research on international economic and monetary matters, JFPI also underwrites issues of corporate securities, provides financial and technical assistance to private development banks and seeks the investment of private capital to supplement its own.
JFPI started operating in
1982 and has become Africa’s largestholding company [http://www.mbendi.co.za/orgs/cnnt.htm Africa: Financial Companies - Democratic Republic of Congo] Mbendi] to date.It specializes in the area of
diamond s and serves as theparent company to many of its wholly-ownedsubsidiaries .The
headquarters for JFPI Corporation is inKinshasa ,Democratic Republic of Congo and the firm is headed up by its chairman, André Action Diakité Jackson.References
External links
* [http://www.jfpicorp.com/ JFPI Corporation]
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