Olasunkanmi Owoyemi, Managing Director of Sunbeth Global Concepts, a leading cocoa trader and processor, took the stage at the Africa Cocoa Finance and Investment Forum (ACFIF) 2026, held at the London Stock Exchange, as a featured panellist in the session Africa Cocoa Vision 2050: Opportunities for Regional Growth & Transformation.
Using the platform to project Sunbeth’s strategic direction and announce a landmark investment in agro-processing, Owoyemi positioned the company at the forefront of Africa’s cocoa industrialisation agenda. At the forum, Owoyemi explained, “Africa cannot continue to be the source of cocoa and remain absent from the centre of value creation.
If African cocoa businesses must build companies that last 100 years, then we must stop thinking like exporters alone and start building like institution creators. At Sunbeth Global Concepts, we see the future as one built on three pillars: Scale. Integration. Permanence.”
Addressing an audience of international investors, financiers and industry leaders, Owoyemi announced Sunbeth’s plans to establish a 70,000 metric tonne cocoa processing plant and an 80,000 metric tonne cashew processing facility in Sagamu, South-West Nigeria, with commissioning set for March 2027.
The dual investment marks a decisive shift from a sole export (trading) business to integrated processing. Sunbeth aims to capture greater value across the supply chain, generate sustainable employment, and reinforce Nigeria’s position in the global cocoa economy.
At the forum, Owoyemi challenged other players to be audacious and think bigger. He argued that lasting competitiveness requires control of sourcing systems, logistics infrastructure, processing capacity, and sustainability frameworks.
