The ANSA McAL group is look­ing at the po­ten­tial to ex­pand in­to Africa.

This was re­vealed by ANSA McAL Group CEO An­tho­ny Sab­ga III at the re­lease of the group’s fi­nan­cial re­sults for the three months end­ed March 31, 2026, at Samaan Es­tate in St Clair.

The group re­port­ed prof­it af­ter tax from con­tin­u­ing op­er­a­tions of $62.83 mil­lion for the quar­ter end­ed March 31, 2026, with the group see­ing a rev­enue in­crease of 5.7 per cent to $1.84 bil­lion.

“This is the re­sult of di­ver­si­fied and struc­tur­al growth across all in­dus­tries. Our prof­itabil­i­ty tells a deep­er sto­ry for this quar­ter, prob­a­bly we fore­cast up by 7 per cent...so even with EBID­TA broad­ly flat, we com­plet­ed ef­fi­cien­cy in the bot­tom line growth. We are just sim­ply as a group, be­com­ing more pro­duc­tive,” said Nicholas Jack­man, the group’s chief fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer, who not­ed ANSA McAL’s rev­enue has in­creased for six con­sec­u­tive quar­ters, while stick­ing to its 2X strat­e­gy and dis­ci­plined in­vest­ment pol­i­cy.

“We (con­tin­ue) man­ag­ing quite an ag­gres­sive in­vest­ment hori­zon aligned with our 2X am­bi­tion. There are items for which there are new mar­kets that we are con­sid­er­ing. So cer­tain­ly Africa, amongst oth­ers,” said Sab­ga III.

He con­firmed the brand con­tin­ued to see growth in the Guyanese and US mar­kets where sig­nif­i­cant in­vest­ments had been made in re­cent years.

“Yes, those trends con­tin­ue. The US mar­ket along­side, we made a mas­sive ac­qui­si­tion in the Unit­ed States, so as we ex­pect, they will get a huge bump com­men­su­rate with that which we’re see­ing. And the Guyanese econ­o­my con­tin­ues to grow, and we’ve made some sig­nif­i­cant in­vest­ments there, the plant ca­pa­bil­i­ty and var­i­ous oth­er along­side au­to­mo­tive and dis­tri­b­u­tion busi­ness amongst oth­ers, par­tic­u­lar bev­er­age busi­ness al­so. So, we con­tin­ue to see where the growth along­side in­vest­ments we made in these par­tic­u­lar mar­kets.”

Sab­ga III ex­pand­ed on progress with re­gard to the Chateau Mar­got Mall lo­cat­ed on the East Coast of De­mer­ara, Guyana, which is sched­uled for com­ple­tion around 2027.

“It’s a very in­ter­est­ing project, project which so far is on time, on bud­get and pro­gress­ing quite nice­ly. That project I un­der­stand is prac­ti­cal­ly presold, large­ly presold. So the up­take is very, very, very pos­i­tive there,” said Sab­ga.

He said the com­pa­ny has tak­en up the chal­lenge made by Guyanese Pres­i­dent Dr. Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali to iden­fi­ty and dis­trib­ute vi­able prod­ucts from the South Amer­i­can coun­try in new mar­kets.

He al­so not­ed the com­pa­ny re­cent­ly saw prof­itabil­i­ty from its Carib op­er­a­tions in In­dia.

“It’s a re­cent en­try con­tin­ues to build mo­men­tum. We’ve re­cent­ly had a kick­off with some very in­ter­est­ing in­flu­encers there. So should we see that in the so­cial me­dia with I be­lieve Bra­vo and Pooran, and the ex­cite­ment is build­ing as we get in­to the warmer sum­mer months, we an­tic­i­pate far more ex­e­cu­tion around the brand and what not, but we re­ceived the part­ner­ship con­tin­ues to do well. And I think we saw some prof­itabil­i­ty on it last month,” said the Ansa McAL CEO.

The Pro­ton brand was al­so sin­gled out for praise, with Sec­tor Head for Au­to­mo­tive Jean-Marc Mout­tet con­firm­ing the brand had be­come ANSA Mo­tors’ sec­ond-best per­form­ing brand.

—Pe­ter Christo­pher