The European Delegation launched an EU Investment Mapping Study with the following objectives:
\u2022 To identify the main EU firms established or trading with Zambia.
\u2022 To identify their impact, barriers and requests for support.
\u2022 To feed the EU-Zambia public-private dialogue and PS-related and governance programmes.
\u2022 To frame the agenda of the post-elections EU-Zambia investment dialogue.<\/p>\n
The survey was finalized with 107 responses received representing 46% of the estimated 233 EU companies present in Zambia.
Some highlights from the survey include:
\u2022 70% of the firms work in services, 19% in manufacturing and 17% in agriculture.
\u2022 The EU firms in Zambia are concentrated in: energy (16%) and construction (12%). Fresh agro products gather 10% of the EU investors.
\u2022 In terms of size, 25% are micro (>10), 37% are small (>50), 17% are medium (>250) and 21% are big (<250).
\u2022 The EU firms consulted have already invested $1.8Bin Zambia and foresee to invest $756M more in the next 5 years.
\u2022 At least 73% of the firms estimate that the Zambian market has potential for growth in the next 5 years. This positive outlook is stable in the 3 sectors of the economy: manufacturing, agro & agro-processing and services.
\u2022 The firms consulted reported to pay \u20ac133M on taxes annually, the taxes paid are low.
\u2022 The consulted firms decreased their annual turnover by almost 24% due to COVID. This sharp fall especially occurred in the agriculture sector.
\u2022 The consulted EU companies create 13,000 direct jobs and have 13,000 local suppliers. 91% of their employees are local posts employing Zambians.
\u2022 While firms in the service sector have an average of 87 employees per firm, the agro sector has 253 and Women hold an estimate of 26% of the jobs created by EU firms in Zambia
\u2022 On average, an EU firm organized 73 corporate social responsibility. Overall, they organize 447 social actions, 444 environmental actions and 352 training and R&D actions per year, spending a total budget of $ 1,305,000.<\/p>\n
To see in full the impact of EU private sector investment study in Zambia Click:
\u2022 Brochure (link)<\/a>
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