Investor Presentaiton

Companies compared to seven hundred and seventy (770) Companies serviced 2006. The trend of these services as shown in the graphics below clearly indicate that the highest number of Companies visited the centre in the month of July three months after the general elections in 2007. A total of 129 companies were attended to in July followed by June with 115 companies the lowest patronage was recorded in December with 32 Companies followed by April with 41 Companies. In terms of service offering, provision of, information and data ranked highest followed by approvals permits and licenses. Facilitation and company incorporation were the least of services received from the Centre. The country of origin and regional distribution show that investors from African countries are the highest callers to the Centre followed in a distance by Middle/Far East, Other regions such as South America, and Caribbean's rank lowest. In a similar vain the Sectoral distribution exhibited the same pattern where Services ranked highest followed in a distance by manufacturing sector. In 2008 information dominated the services rendered in the centre and it accounts for 74.9% of the whole services rendered, the issuance of Business permit followed at a distance of 14.1% incorporations 8.7% lastly immigration services 2.3% due to bottlenecks imposed by Internal Affairs Ministry. The monthly trend shows that the months of June and July recorded the highest patronage with 14.5% and 10.8% respectively. Whereas the months of October with 5.5% and December with 2.6% show the beginning of the effects of the economic meltdown, however the average monthly patronage to the Centre stood at 3.3%. The regional distribution shows that the greatest number of companies comes from Africa and Nigeria represents 64.8% of the entire patronage, Middle/far East ranked second with China accounting for 42.1% of the regional patronage. Europe accounted for 10.3% with UK recording 34.2%. 73

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