PIA - Private Investors for Africa

The PIA members are united and motivated by a common vision to help accelerate economic growth and social development across the African continent.

Welcome to PIA

The Private Investors for Africa (PIA), founded in 2001, is a business coalition that brings together ethically like-minded companies with the objective of tapping into their business experience in Africa to invest in its infrastructure and tangibly contribute to the continent’s future. At present PIA members include: Aramex, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Heineken, Lafarge, Standard Bank and Unilever.

Nick Blazquez
Managing Director, Diageo Africa
Chairman Private Investors for Africa

Employee wellbeing

People and talent development

Infrastructure

Regulatory issues

News and upcoming events

June 2010, Washington

The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB has selected the PPP from PIA with GTZ on HIV/AIDS Workplace Programs in supply chain companies in Nigeria for a commendation in the Partnership Award category of the GBC Awards. The participating PIA companies Heineken, Diageo and Unilever were rewarded for “reaching more than 12,000 people with critical disease-prevention training and for the innovative partnership between Guinness Nigeria Plc, Nigerian Breweries and Unilever Nigeria Plc that has advanced a model for supply chain engagement that can be deployed across Africa with similar impact.”

Background

The African continent is undergoing what has been described as a structural, rather than a cyclical, recovery. This has been aided by a shift in the continent’s terms of trade, spurred by demand from China and India for natural resources, and fuelling a boom in commodities, including oil and the promise of far-reaching investment programmes in infrastructure.