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GlaxoSmithKline to invest US$216 million in Africa's healthcare sector

GlaxoSmithKline will invest US$41mn to create an open lab to research non-communicable diseases in Africa. (Image source: Maxwell Hamilton/Flickr)
Pharmaceutical major GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to invest US$216mn in Africas healthcare sector, which includes the development of a lab, expansion of manufacturing facilities and training of community healthcare professionals
P&G opens US$300 million manufacturing plant in Nigeria

The US-based company Procter and Gamble has constructed a manufacturing plant worth US$300mn in Ogun State, Nigeria. (Image source: Pasa47/Flickr)
Procter and Gamble Nigeria (P&G) has completed the construction of a manufacturing plant worth US$300mn in Agbara industrial estate, Ogun State in western Nigeria
Chinese firm to set up motorcycle manufacturing facility in Tanzania

Guangzhou Fekon manufactures 50,000 motorcycles a month, which are exported to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe and South America. (Image source: Fekon)
China’s Guangzhou Fekon has announced plans to set up a motorcycle manufacturing plant in Tanzania
Continental Tyres to expand South African manufacturing facility

Continental SA plans to increase its average investment in the African continent by seven times in 2014. (Image source: mtneer_man/Flickr)
Continental Tyres South Africa (SA) has announced plans to invest US$9.6mn to expand and diversify its tyre manufacturing facility in Port Elizabeth