BCDC: George Forrest receives a non-binding offer from Kenya’s Equity Group Holdings
The information was confirmed to Jeune Afrique Business+ by a reliable source at Groupe Forrest International which, incidentally, is not a shareholder in Banque Commerciale du Congo (BCDC).
09/09/2019 at 16h24, by Gaëlle Arenson
According to our source, the Belgian-Congolese entrepreneur, in his capacity as the majority shareholder in BCDC, is in negotiations with the Kenyan party, after receiving a non-binding offer for his stake in the Congolese bank which has been in operation for more than a century.
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