In Focus | Gabon
Gagan Gupta, Ali Bongo's favourite Indian tycoon
Published on 09.08.2018 at 04:30 GMT
Reading time 5 minutes
While French multinationals in Gabon have gone broke like Rougier and Necotrans or battle with the presidency like Veolia and Eramet, Indo-Singaporean group Olam has gone from strength to strength. The man behind its success, its Gabon country director Gagan Gupta, has succeeded in forging close links with the Gabonese presidency.
Times are changing. In less than a year, two of the leading names in the Franco-Gabonese business world, logistics group Necotrans and timber specialist Rougier, have found themselves obliged to turn to the courts of commerce as a result of financial difficulties. And in each case, Olam, set up originally with Indian capital and headed in Gabon by a
