The Aba Leather Cluster

In Nigeria ALAIN highlights an indigenous manufacturing engine:

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The Aba cluster, leather/leather goods sector has the highest number of individuals and clusters in the entire West African sub region with an estimated population of over nine hundred thousand (900,000) people.

Over two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) individuals are engaged in the production of finished leather goods.

More than one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) individuals are in the raw materials market. This market is the biggest in West Africa and serves other manufacturers in the West African region and has five big clusters mainly in Aba outside the 10 clusters that make up the manufacturing sector. More than thirty thousand (30,000) person sale finished leather goods and the rest are in the ancillary industries.

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