Overseas Market Development Corporation (OMDC)

Mr. Ben Mbonu is the Overseas Market Development Corporation official representative for Nigeria and Ghana. He is responsible for providing clients with market research, business development services, sales representation, sourcing, and related company services within those markets and other West African countires.

He has over 15 years in sales and marketing, including senior management positions for consumer product companies. His experience has been focused in the food, beverage, office systems, and cosmetic sectors. In addition, since 2003, he has been the CEO of a marketing communications company that provides marketing and related services for companies and organizations in Nigeria.

Mr. Mbonu's skills include; conducting market research, trade show representation, product promotions, business development services, locating distribution partners, acting as a manufacturer's sales representative, sourcing local products, conducting due diligence on Nigerian and Ghana businesses, providing quality control services for international firms purchasing regional exports, and advising companies on a wide range of strategic local issues related to doing business in Nigeria and Ghana.

Fluent in a number of Nigerian languages and dialects, he travels extensively in the region.

Mr. Mbonu received his degree from All Saints College in Nigeria, with an advanced business diploma in marketing from the Institute of Management and Technology, a leading Nigerian business and technology school.

Potential product opportunities for import into Nigeria and Ghana include:
Food, beverages, agro chemicals, cosmetics, animal feed and concentrates, pharmaceutical products, veterinary products, industrial and laboratory equipments and chemicals, machinery and equipment, packaging machines, printing machinery and related consumables, IT solutions and services, oil and mining equipment, refurbished machines and systems.

Export opportunities from Nigeria and Ghana include:
Cocoa butter, cocoa cake, cocoa powder, cocoa liquor, palm kernel oil, cassava, cashew nuts, charcoal, chillies (dried), ginger, garlic cassava flour, platain flour, ground maize, cocoa beans, ginger, groundnuts, gum, arabic horns, kola nuts, rubber, sheanuts, skins, columbite ore, calcium carbonate, coal, kaolin, tin, tantalite, handicrafts, cane chairs, hand-woven textiles, beads and pottery.

His interests and hobbies include reading, the Internet, and listening to music.

If your company is interested in establishing business, conducting market research, gaining competitive advantage, sourcing products, sales representation, or utilizing the local expertise of Mr. Mbonu for other West African projects, please send your inquiry or questions via e-mail to nigeriaATomdc.com, replacing AT with the @ character.