Paniel Meat Processing

“When talking about malnutrition [in Africa], it is estimated that [malnutrition] is the underlying cause of 35% to 40% children’s deaths”
– The World Health Organization

Malnutrition is not just a lack of calories, it is caused by a lack of protein and essential amino acids, both most easily supplied with meat. The problem isn’t a lack of nutritional knowledge, it is a lack of affordable options for meat consumption. In rural Rwanda and in the urban slums, typical families eat meat just three times per year.

Paniel Meat Processing is dedicated to offering the best of meat products, giving customers a variety of affordable products to give customers a choice for daily meat consumption to satisfy their needs.

Our products include sausages, meatballs, and other small portions of meat. Plus later this year we are launching AKABOGA the cheapest meat products in an African meat market, pre-seasoned and precooked.

We sell to customers today in multiple Rwandan cities, and export into the DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, and Benin. In early 2019 we were invited to China by Jack Ma to open exports to Asia.

ELIT on the SEM (2024)

Paniel Meat Processing is a wholly owned subsidiary of Elite Meat Processing, which is a publicly traded company listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius under the symbol ELIT, tradable using the tuesday.africa app for everyone outside of Mauritius.

Under Construction (2024)

Visiting PMP in 2022

Livestock Bank’s chicken farm (2023)

The original business model at Paniel Meat Processing was for 100% of the animals to be raised by Rwandan smallholder farmers. The “high class” problem in the last year is that demand increased so quickly that the only reasonable path was to build out some in-house animal production, starting with chickens. A hatchery for day-old chicks, six chicken houses, and an abattoir. Enough...

Ziweto Enterprise now manufacturers animal feed concentrates in Lilongwe, Malawi, helping lower the cost of animal feeds for smallholder farmers in Malawi, making livestock more affordable to more farmers.

Two years ago, Paniel Meat Processing spun out its logistics department into a standalone logistics company, TRUK, serving other food/ag companies in Rwanda. Two years later, they are not just moving food around Rwanda, but all across Eastern Africa, from Kampala in Uganda to Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya, out to the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania along with Arusha, Dodoma, Mbeya, and Songara...

Back in 2020 when the pandemic began, Paniel Meat Processing found itself with an internal logistics system covering the major cities in Rwanda, but excess capacity due to the lockdowns. To keep the trucks busy, they spun out Paniel Transport & Logistics. Creating new companies to solve internal problems was not new to Herve Tuyishime, founder/CEO. He had done the same with livestock...