Groningen is a pleasant place, with an old university, but its claims to fame do not extend to much beyond the industrial processing of sugar-beet and a glorious 15th-century tower.

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He delved into full production of these items in the early 2000s and went on to build the Dangote Group, West Africa's largest publicly-listed conglomerate, which now owns sugar refineries, salt processing facilities and Dangote Cement, the continent's largest cement producer.

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He started trading commodities more than 30 years ago after receiving a business loan from his uncle, and eventually built the Dangote Group, which in addition to cement owns sugar refineries, flour milling and salt processing facilities.

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He built his Dangote Group into a conglomerate with interests in sugar, flour milling, cement and salt processing.

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India consumes 14m tonnes of sugar a year, but has twice that much processing capacity.

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Since 1970, when it established an export-processing zone, its foreign sales of textiles and sugar have boomed and its per capita income is now the second highest in Africa.

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The economy rests on sugar, tourism, textiles and apparel, and financial services, and is expanding into fish processing, information and communications technology, and hospitality and property development.

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