Nourishing Lives!
From flour and pasta to sugar, edible oils, and rice, we produce high-quality food essentials that sustain millions.
A Leading Force in Africa’s Food Industry
BUA Foods is a trusted name in Africa’s food sector, offering high-quality products in sugar, flour, pasta, rice, edible oils, and other essential staples. Our vertically integrated operations ensure that we deliver superior value from farm to table.
Delivering Quality and Nutrition
Our Food Products
Flour Milling & Pasta Processing
Flour is one of the staple foods contributing to the development of Nigeria. Currently, the shares of wheat flour for bread, semolina, pasta and others, are estimated at 60 percent, 20 percent,10 percent, and 10 percent, respectively.
The base raw material for bread flour, confectionery flour and noodle flour, semolina, and pasta production is wheat, and 99 percent of the 5.67 million metric tons is imported. BUA IRS Flour has established a state-of-the-art plant in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, to cater for the growing needs of its population. The market is expected to grow annually by 6.7% (Compound Annual Growth Rate, CAGR 2020-2025).
Most profitable Foods Business on the Nigeria Exchange (NGX)
Sugar Refining and Plantations
All the sugar and allied investments of BUA Group are set up to take advantage of the entire sugar production value chain. These include investments in sugar estates as well as refining capabilities.
Sugar Refining
Sugar Plantations
Rice Milling and Plantation
A staple food buoyed by strong domestic demand, BUA Group currently operates a mill in Kano as well as a rice plantation in Kano, Nigeria. The Group also operates a robust out-growers Scheme targeting about 100,000 rice farmers in Kano and Jigawa States, Nigeria.
The mill is the largest in Nigeria at 200,000 tonnes per annum and is currently being upgraded to 1million metric tonnes per annum. BUA Rice Plantation is estimated to cover a land mass of about 10,000 hectares.
Oil Milling
In 2001, BUA Group acquired Nigeria Oil Mills Ltd. which was established in 1951. With two main facilities (Nigeria Oil Mills, Kano & BUA Oil Mills, Lagos), the company produces oil from groundnut and cotton seeds and also produces animal feeds and soap.
BUA Oil Mills, established in 2008, produces high quality products including palm olein, stearin, Distilled Fatty Acid (DFA) amongst others.
Our Value Proposition
“To provide high-quality products to the widest possible customer base at reasonable prices” – BUA Group