Country: Gabon
Sector of activity: Construction
Status: Exit
Associed fund: IPAE 1
Entrepreneur: Folly Koussawo
Employees: 25
In portfolio since: 2014

 

Trianon BTP Gabon is a construction company created in 2012 by a young team of Gabonese professionals who studied and trained in France.

Trianon has boldly positioned itself to fill a gap in the local construction market: as a small-sized company it has the agility to tailor medium-size jobs to its clients while providing high service standards that rival those of the largest contractors. This ambitious model was proved right and efficient after a single year of activity. As of today, Trianon is viewed as a major actor on the market for highly demanding private and public clients (National Real Estate Company, French Ministry of Defense, French Foreign Ministry…

 

THE ENTREPRENEUR

Folly Koussawo is a 37-year old Gabonese entrepreneur. He graduated from the IPAG (Nice) and from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (top-leading French school and world oldest civil engineering university) in Real Estate Management. He was Program Manager at Kaufman & Board, one of the greatest French Real Estate promoters and managed the construction of near 4000 houses within a local state housing program.

 

PARTNERSHIP WITH I&P

I&P committed alongside with Trianon

• To finance the company’s capacities growth (pre-construction site, joinery and carpentry unit, storage)
• To mentor and support the company’s commercial strategy and deployment in international operations

 

IMPACTS

• Enhancing local value-added
• Structuring of te sector
• Raising the industry standards

 

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