Who we serve

Trusted Partners in Business

For nearly 15 years, our mission, our course at Gracie Davis has been steady and clear: provide polished and trusted consulting services in an increasingly complex, and growing Africa. Our playing field is wide and dynamic. Essentially, we are a polymath ‘holdings’ consulting group with business interests in specific areas of interest to us; areas that happen to be experiencing rapid growth in Africa at the moment.

Our deep expertise in technology, engineering, and analytics helps us serve a broad constituency of clients, ranging from cabinet-level departments within certain African governments to corporations, institutions, and organizations. We serve clients in ‘new’ and ‘existing’ markets across Africa’s various industries. These clients include African behemoths in the Manufacturing, Banking, Petroleum, Construction, Telecommunications, Transportation, Refining, and Commodities industries. Said clients face a wide range of complex and pressing challenges such as conducting comprehensive system audits, improving e-monitoring/inventory capabilities, transforming logistics and distributive systems (amid poor infrastructure), and configuring and integrating advanced financial systems.

To address these challenges, Gracie Davis’s employs our usual approach to all client-projects as one that is based on the development of long-term client relationships and sustainable results, and not one that is singular-project or transaction driven, or short-sighted. This ensures sustained top-quality service at all times. We deliver objective, trusted advice to our clients via expert analyses rooted in deep domain knowledge and functional expertise. Our collaborative culture also helps to ensure the delivery of highly responsive services to clients who must respond quickly to emerging trends, evolving missions, and changing market conditions in Africa.

A sampling of Gracie Davis clientele includes:

• The Nigerian Army.
• Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB).
• Tiger Brands / Dangote Flour Mills (DFM).
• The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) & its subsidiaries – (PPMC, NETCO etc).

For the above-mentioned clients, we resolved the following project-cases:

• A Nigerian Army Armory located next to a huge outdoors market in Ikeja, Lagos – Nigeria, exploded in 2001 because it was unknowingly over-packed with unmonitored ammunition and explosives. Hundreds died in the aftermath. Gracie Davis was recruited to build an online ammunitions inventory-tracking system, which was called NALTAS (Nigerian Army Logistics and Tracking Analysis System), to improve the accountability and records keeping of ammunitions in the Nigerian Army. Additionally, at the request of the Nigerian Army Gracie Davis wrote white policy-papers on “War-gaming as a viable training method in the Nigerian Army” & “Improving Logistics in the Nigerian Army” – White Papers that were both eventually implemented as policy within the Nigerian Army.

• Gracie Davis has years of experience conducting numerous training workshops & sessions in numerous technical & non-technical areas such as ‘Entrepreneurship Development’ or ‘Stress Management’ for the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC – a subsidiary of NNPC). In 2013 alone we have conducted 4 different workshops for PPMC.

• Tiger Brands / Dangote Flour Mills (DFM) – Tiger Brands Limited, a Top 40 JSE Limited company and South African consumer goods firm, whose footprint extends across the African continent and beyond, bought a 63% (Now 70%) stake in Dangote Flour Mills (DFM) of Nigeria (formerly a subsidiary of Dangote Industries) in 2012. Tiger Brands bought a fairly robust DFM with a clear goal to increase its revenues and expand its reach into the Nigerian food commodities market by catalyzing and transforming the way its consumer goods were manufactured, stored and distributed in Nigeria. After a thorough supply chain analysis of its operations, DFM realized they would need to overhaul the way they stored and distributed their consumables. They decided that they would overhaul a major portion of their commodities distribution fleet, first starting with their Storage Silos and then their Bulk Cargo Flour Tankers. Problem is DFM needed to carry out this project cost-effectively, especially because they had just a very bad experience with new equipment (over 50 Flat Bed Trailers) bought in China that had developed serious rusting issues upon arrival on Nigeria shores. Gracie Davis was recommended to DFM to help them acquire top-quality cost effective bulk cargo tankers, which would allow DFM to transport their consumables issue-free across Nigeria despite the many hurdles – such as bad infrastructure – in their path. Gracie Davis took DFM on a factory quality assurance tour in China to meet with some of our trusted manufacturing partners, and were able to put together a package for DFM that saved them over $25,000 per Tanker. We recommended that DFM utilize customized Carbon-Steel tankers with anti-corrosion lifetime (30 years guarantee) food compliant paint as material of choice instead of the Stainless-Steel tankers that they were looking to buy. The rest as they say – is history.

• For over a week in early 2011, Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) could not resolve a major server problem, which had paralyzed the processing of customer deposits, but (interestingly) not withdrawals. This problem was a consequence of a major Oracle data migration and server upgrade project, gone wrong! Gracie Davis was recruited to help resolve the problem. Gracie Davis was able to analyze and help resolve this crippling issue for GTB in just 2 days, saving the bank major losses (in the millions of dollars) in the process.