◆ Sourced from national regulators
They already import.
You just cannot see them.
742 African companies hold a live registration for food or drink made in Europe. We read the registers that license them, so you know who buys, what they carry and where it was made — before the first email or phone call.
4 registers live · 43 markets sized · every record cites its authority
The registers these authorities keep
The registers we hold, and what is in them
All 43 markets sized →| Authority | Importers | European-made | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAFDAC · Nigeria | Nigeria | 502 | 256 | 1,990 | 2026-09-04 |
| Rwanda FDA · Rwanda | Rwanda | 66 | 26 | 242 | 2026-09-04 |
| TBS · Tanzania | Tanzania | 547 | 143 | 2,198 | 2026-09-04 |
| FDA Ghana · Ghana | Ghana | 1,935 | 583 | 6,595 | 2026-09-04 |
| The other 50 states | no public register we could reach — the list is on the coverage pagesee the list | ||||
◆ What the registers hold
Drinks are one shelf, not the shop.
The same authorities license cereals, meat, oils and produce. Bakery importers outnumber drinks importers; a register read only for wine and spirits misses most of what is in it.
Importers per category · solid bar = those carrying European-made product. Source: the product registers named on each country page, retrieved 2026-09-04.
◆ And what it is worth
The bars above count companies. This counts money.
$61.79B of food and drink imported a year, across 35 African countries
| Market | Imports a year | What they buy most | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | $14.87B | Cereals and bakery $6.63B · Fats and oils $2.54B · Meat and fish $1.85B | not yet |
| Morocco | $8.22B | Cereals and bakery $3.30B · Confectionery $1.05B · Fruit and vegetables $1.04B | not yet |
| Nigeria | $6.75B | Cereals and bakery $3.15B · Confectionery $932.4M · Meat and fish $871.8M | live |
| South Africa | $4.58B | Cereals and bakery $1.81B · Meat and fish $687.6M · Fruit and vegetables $567.4M | not yet |
| Kenya | $3.37B | Cereals and bakery $1.37B · Fats and oils $952.1M · Confectionery $413.4M | not yet |
| Côte d'Ivoire | $2.92B | Cereals and bakery $1.21B · Meat and fish $1.02B · Beverages $171.4M | not yet |
| Tunisia | $2.77B | Cereals and bakery $1.65B · Fats and oils $293.5M · Confectionery $264.8M | not yet |
| Ethiopia | $2.32B | Cereals and bakery $818.5M · Fats and oils $749.6M · Confectionery $286.9M | not yet |
| Senegal | $2.17B | Cereals and bakery $1.34B · Fats and oils $196.2M · Fruit and vegetables $157.4M | not yet |
| Djibouti | $2.01B | Fats and oils $856.2M · Confectionery $433.8M · Cereals and bakery $422.4M | not yet |
| Mozambique | $1.38B | Cereals and bakery $720.0M · Fats and oils $335.0M · Meat and fish $187.2M | not yet |
| Cameroon | $1.16B | Cereals and bakery $756.9M · Fats and oils $192.6M · Sauces and seasoning $81.0M | not yet |
Swipe sideways for the full row. Annual import value by HS chapter, UN Comtrade, most recent year reported per country. Mapped onto the same category names the registers use, so the two datasets can be read against each other.
◆ How the data gets used
Six places where a name is not enough
What exporters tell us, and what we do about it.
“I met four distributors in Lagos. Two never answered, and one turned out not to be registered for my category at all.”
What we do
Start from the register instead. Every one of the 742 companies here holds a live registration for European-made food or drink, in a category you can filter on before you write to anyone.
“We know West Africa imports milk powder. We do not know a single buyer by name.”
What we do
Filter on dairy and you get the companies registered to sell it, by name, with the countries each already buys from. Today that is 616 companies across the registers we hold.
“I would rather approach someone who has already cleared French product than someone who might.”
What we do
Filter by the European country of manufacture. We hold 4,874 confirmed origin links, so you can ask for companies that have already put product from your country through their own regulator.
“Half the contacts I bought last time had gone out of business or lost their licence.”
What we do
Expired registrations are removed before a company appears. Every name here held a valid registration on the date shown on its record — 10,464 lapsed ones were taken out of the last rebuild.
“We advise fifty exporters and repeat the same market research for each of them.”
What we do
One coverage picture across the 4 registers we hold, with counts, sources and retrieval dates you can cite in an advice note rather than re-deriving them per client.
“Foreign suppliers approach companies that never registered anything with us.”
What we do
Only registered companies appear. Your register becomes the route into your market, with your authority named and linked on every record drawn from it.
◆ The dashboard
One screen, every market.
Search by product, manufacturer or company across every register we hold. A market you have opened shows each company in full; one you have not shows how many match, what they carry and where it was made — and what it costs to open. An account is an email address.
Counts are the true ones and answer any filter, before and after a market is opened. Contact details are published for Ghana; the other three registers carry none, and those dossiers are priced lower for it.
◆ The proof
742 food and drink importers already carry European-made product
Counted from the confirmed country of origin on each registration. A company already buying from Spain is the warmest lead a Spanish exporter can get.
11,025 registered products · 1,052 companies with a phone number, all of them from Ghana — the only one of the four registers that publishes contact details
◆ What this costs
Bought once, not rented.
These registers are republished about twice a year. Everything you came for arrives on the day you buy it, so charging you every month for it would be a subscription in name only. An account shows every market counted; what you are paying for is the records themselves, in full, and the file.
FDA Ghana · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Companies1,935
- European-made product583
- Registered products6,595
- With a phone number1,052
TBS · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Companies547
- European-made product143
- Registered products2,198
- With a phone numbernone published
This authority publishes no contact details, so neither do we. The dossier is names, products, origins and categories — priced accordingly.
Get the Tanzania dossierNAFDAC · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Companies502
- European-made product256
- Registered products1,990
- With a phone numbernone published
This authority publishes no contact details, so neither do we. The dossier is names, products, origins and categories — priced accordingly.
Get the Nigeria dossierRwanda FDA · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Companies66
- European-made product26
- Registered products242
- With a phone numbernone published
This authority publishes no contact details, so neither do we. The dossier is names, products, origins and categories — priced accordingly.
Get the Rwanda dossierGhana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania — every record in full, the contact details where an authority publishes them, each market as a file. A register we add later is a new dossier, not part of this one.
Every dossier carries the authority and the retrieval date on each record, so anything we hand you can be checked against the source it came from. Expired registrations are removed before it reaches you. We hold four registers of Africa's fifty-four and price it like four.
◆ Get started
Which market do you want opened?
Sign in with an email address and the dashboard opens: every market counted, the ones you buy shown in full. A dossier is bought once and priced on the page. Nothing here needs a demo call.