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HASI Consulting — Horn of Africa Strategic Initiatives

Sector 03 of 07

Trade, manufacturing & industry

Trading and manufacturing businesses in the region grow faster than their systems. The common work is establishing or restructuring the entity, fixing the supply chain, and building the finance function an investor or lender will accept.
Who this covers
Importers, distributors, manufacturers and industrial operations
Named clients
8 on the clients page
Lead practices
Trade & Investment · Organizational Development

The operating context

What is different about trade and industry here

Trading and manufacturing businesses in the region tend to outgrow their systems before they outgrow their market. Revenue rises, and finance, supply chain and governance stay where they were three years ago.

Cross-border operation adds a second problem: the same business often needs to be established, licensed and compliant in more than one jurisdiction, on different timetables.

We handle the establishment sequence and the operating systems that have to catch up with it.

Goods checked against the manifest at a warehouse loading bay

The work

What organizations here ask us for.

The requests on the left; the practices that answer them on the right. Most engagements in this sector combine at least two.
  • 01Market entry, incorporation, licensing and permits
  • 02Supply chain cost, efficiency and resilience
  • 03Industrial capacity, quality and process performance
  • 04Investment readiness and financial management
  • 05Business valuation for a merger, sale or dispute
  1. 02Trade & Investment FacilitationMarket entry, incorporation, licensing, permits and ongoing corporate compliance.
  2. 01Organizational & Business DevelopmentStrategy, operating model, investment readiness, finance, people and project delivery.
  3. 03Technical ConsultancyAgribusiness, manufacturing, ICT and energy — feasibility through design and installation.
  4. 05Human Capital DevelopmentTraining needs analysis, curriculum and materials, delivery, assessment and e-learning.

Named clients in this sector

The full client base
  • East African Holding
  • Safa Group
  • Al-Habib General Trading
  • Qorey General Trading
  • Shaafici Trading
  • SagalJet
  • SignJet
  • Somgas

Marks identify the organizations concerned. They do not imply a current endorsement or an active engagement. Client names are as published in the HASI Company Profile 2026.

Questions

Asked in this sector.

Can you establish an entity in more than one jurisdiction?
Our offices operate in Somaliland, Somalia and the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Tell us the target jurisdictions at first contact so we can be precise about what applies in each.
We are already trading. Is it too late to fix the systems?
No — most of this practice’s work is with businesses that are already operating. Supply chain, financial management and governance are usually improved in place rather than rebuilt.

Other sectors

Trade & industry

Established, compliant, and built to scale.

Whether you are entering the market or already trading past your systems, tell us the jurisdictions and the bottleneck and we will set out the sequence.

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