Cable manufacturing plant, Wukro
Domestic cable manufacturing capacity moving from commissioning into production.
WAGWAGO BUSINESS GROUPp
Ethiopia builds it here.
Six companies that supply one another. Transformers made in Wukro, steel fabricated in Addis, freight moved on our own network, and the engineers trained in our own classrooms.
THE GROUP
A group built to supply itself.
Wagwago began trading in 2015 and became a private limited company in 2017. What started as one business is now six, and the reason they sit together is practical rather than financial: the transformer plant needs enclosures, the enclosures need steel, the steel needs moving, the network needs systems, and all of it needs engineers.
Each company competes on its own terms and sells to its own market. Together they close gaps that would otherwise be filled by imports.
2015
Operating since
8
Companies in the group
5
Sectors
24
Branches nationwide
1
International hub
ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Power equipment, made in Ethiopia.
Transformers, protection devices and cable, manufactured and assembled locally, with engineering, procurement and construction delivered by the same team that builds the equipment.
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The parts that used to be imported.
Distribution boards, control panels, transmission hardware and structural steel, fabricated and finished in one facility. Every unit made here is one fewer arriving by ship.
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LOGISTICS AND MOBILITY
Two ways to move anything.
A courier network with branches nationwide and a hub in Dubai, alongside a freight platform matching shippers to carriers on the corridor to Djibouti. One for parcels, one for tonnage.
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TECHNOLOGY AND CONSULTANCY
The systems underneath.
The software running our logistics, inventory and operations was built in-house, tested against our own businesses first, and is now delivered to clients who need the same thing.
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EDUCATION AND SKILLS
We train the people we hire.
Short-course technical training, K-12 tutoring and international certification, run with partners including GAFM and California State University Dominguez Hills. Some graduates join the group. Most do not, and that is the point.
Explore education and skillsOUR COMPANIES
Independent businesses, one operating standard.
TRACK RECORD
Delivered, not proposed.
Work completed for utilities, telecoms operators, government authorities and development partners.
Distribution boards and transmission hardware
Board assembly and transmission hardware supporting grid delivery programmes.
Substation commissioning programme
Site installation and commissioning support for power infrastructure delivery.
Automated packaging line upgrade
Automation, quality control and line commissioning
Structural steel fabrication line, Mekelle
Fabrication line developed for repeatable structural-steel production.
Nationwide courier network build-out
Branch and courier-network expansion connecting domestic routes and operations.
PARTNERSHIPS
Three ways to work with us.
Development finance, joint ventures, and procurement each have their own route in.
Development partners and lenders
Governance, structure and funding conversations.
Joint venture and supply partners
Sector capability and a route to propose work.
Institutional buyers
Proof of delivery and a procurement route.
CAREERS
We would rather train you than import you.
Most of our engineers came through our own programmes. If you are early in your career and want to work on things that physically exist, start here.
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