00:00After years of political and economic turmoil, the last 15 years have seen Ivory Coast return to stability and strong
00:08economic growth.
00:10Now the government is looking to so-called national champion businesses to fuel economic development.
00:17Among those champions is oil and gas distributor Petro Ivoire.
00:23Being named championed by your country gives you a very strong responsibility, a responsibility to set an example.
00:33In any case, that remains the guiding principle of our company, always being a civic-minded, responsible and sustainable business.
00:43Another recent success story is Kaira. Founded in the late 2000s, it now has 600 employees.
00:51The company sells natural cosmetics across West Africa and as far as Paris and Dubai, more than two dozen countries
01:00in total.
01:02The obstacles we might face are with certain African countries, especially when it comes to regulations and all that,
01:09because standards differ greatly from one country to another, and each country has its own requirements.
01:16So you have to go and comply with the regulations of each individual country and so on.
01:23If the African continental free trade area could start by introducing a single African standard in terms of regulation,
01:31it would make things much easier for us.
01:34Ivory Coast last week secured $80 billion in international public financing for its national development plan.
01:43It's expecting $150 billion more from the private sector.
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