About Us

33+ Years of Experience In Business

Belayneh Kindie Group (BKG) is a young and fast growing business and investment group formally established in 2005. The Group enjoys the visionary, energetic and resilient leadership of its Forbes featured founder and Board Chairperson, Belayneh Kindie Mekonnen. belayneh kindie’s business journey stretches back 29 years from a humble beginning of trading butter and honey with an initial capital of less than 1000 USD and in less than just three decades he became a fame and leading actor in Ethiopia’s strategic economic sectors, the export and manufacturing sectors.

30 Years of Experience In Business

Dear Esteemed Customers, Business Partners, Stakeholders, and Colleagues

For the last 33 years, I have worked with small trade partners, lending financial institutions, banks, government offices, consultants, fellow investors, international trade partners, and other stakeholders and built up the skills that enabled me to lift my small business from a family retail trading to a big business group known as BKG.

BKG has created 22 companies and generated billions of revenue every year. The group is engaged in diversified business sectors. We are operating in the export of sesame, and continued to be the market leader in Ethiopia for the last ten years, In addition, we operate in the agriculture sector by securing five farm areas in five different regions. Our manufacturing sector has five plants. We are also engaged in the construction sector, the hotel industry, freight, and public transport, and real estate development.

Out of our business organizations PhiBela Industrial PLC is one of the biggest edible oil processing plants not only in Ethiopia but also in Africa. BK Metal Engineering Complex and BK Debre Birhan Car Assembly Plant are also the fruits of our hard work that contributed to the development of the manufacturing sector in the country. Phibela and BK metal engineering complex transformed us from trader to manufacturer. BKG is operating in 7 regions across Ethiopia with more than 5,000 professionals and employees who are working on a permanent and contractual basis.

In the coming five years we will be focusing on expanding the size of our commercial farms. The main agricultural products grown on our farms’ will be coffee, sesame seed, and different types of fruit for export. Our main objective of expanding farms is to enable us to generate foreign currency by exporting traceable products for our customers.

In addition, to realize the government’s economic objective of import substitution and value-added products export strategy; we are installing a protein powder manufacturing and edible oil crushing plant in a compound where PhiBela Industrial PLC is situated. We have three mega projects on which our investment is focusing and these include a high-rise luxury Ethiopia hotel and apartment redevelopment project, the Piassa real estate and apartment building project, and a five-star rated Bahir Dar Hilton Hotel and Spa.

It is my pleasure to see that our employees are happier and more motivated than ever when they work for the realization of our dreams of becoming one of the leading business institutions in Africa. We believe that our employees are the most important assets of the BKG. Most of our customers I know get an enormous sense of satisfaction and trust from the products and services we deliver to them. Our companies will be committed to fulfilling their corporate social responsibilities as ever before.

The great leadership role of the Board of Directors of the BKG in alignment with the management team of our companies has a significant impact on the success of our mega projects and the realization of the five-year strategic plan.

Belayneh Kindie Mekonnen

Chairperson, the BKG Board of Directors

Vision

Setting the pace to become the Leading Business Group in Ethiopia and among the top ten exporters of agricultural products in Africa by 2025!

Mission

Committed to exceeding the expectations of customers and stakeholders by providing competitive and responsible business solutions, ensuring efficient products and services in trade, hotel, transport, construction, agriculture, and manufacturing sectors, whilst playing a profound role in Ethiopia’s transition to industrialization, creating job opportunities and positive trade balance.