For the new number plates, which have been applied since January 10th, by the Directorate of Traffic and Road Safety (DTSER), there are four companies supplying material and 80 companies that will apply the plates. The new license plate model, given the innovative features it presents and the price, will become a profitable business for many companies. Find out who the owners are…
Unlike what happened with the measure related to non-reflective self-adhesive films on cars (known as tinted windows), DTSER, when presenting the new model of number plates, made the list of companies involved in this process available to the general public.
From January 10th of this year, new motor vehicles will have a different registration plate than the one currently used, and for those already in circulation, drivers have up to two years to change this material. Thus, in the list of companies made available by DTSER, the company N’IDEIAS Investimento stands out, as it is the one that will place registrations in the largest number of provinces, a total of nine.
N’IDEIAS is represented in Luanda (in Morro Bento), Benguela, Bié, Cunene, Cuando Cubango, Lunda Norte, Huíla, Huambo and Moxico. An investigation carried out by the newspaper OPAÍS revealed that the company with the most markets, N’IDEIAS Investimento, was created in 2015 and has as partners Aristóteles André Aleluia Ndulumba (80%) and his son Axel Ndulumba (with 20%) – who at the time of creation had seven months to live.
Aristotle Ndulumba is an architect and his company (N’IDEIAS) also appears on the list of 24 companies that had initially been licensed to apply sticker films to vehicles, in the province of Huambo. However, this licensing process was canceled following a statement from the PN and a new public tender was opened.
Another company that stands out is DESENVOLVE, which will work in five provinces to place number plates, namely Luanda, Bengo, Benguela, Cuanza Sul and Malanje. In the embryonic period of DESENVOLVE, Carlos Barros Manuel Leiria, the president of the Industrial Association of Angola in Benguela, appears as one of the partners (50%), with Solange Figueiredo Gonçalves, in the year 2000. However, in 2006, DESENVOLVE decided to increase the share capital, which initially was 500 Kz, to 100 thousand Kz, divided into 80% for Carlos Leiria and 20% for a new partner identified by Mana do Carmo da Conceição Quaresma.
This company, owned by the president of AIA in Benguela, is one of the renowned institutions that provides IT and services.
Cuanza Norte and Namibe without competing companies
The list we have been citing presents, out of a total of 80, at least 41 companies that will operate as license plate applicators in the province of Luanda alone. The city of Benguela will have seven companies; Huíla and Huambo will each have five; Cabinda will have four; Cuanza Sul and Lunda Sul, each three; Lunda Norte will have two and the same number of companies will operate in the province of Uíge. In the provinces of Cuanza Norte and Namibe, only one company will provide this service.
In the first there will be TECNAGRI (located in the municipality of Cazengo) and, in the second, ER Blocos (in the municipality of Moçâmedes), being freely on the market, without any competitors. TECNAGRI, a company owned by two Portuguese couples, initially had, in 2009, Henrique Manuel Ventura Simões and Ana Cristina Costa Seno as partners, with the first owner of 170 thousand kz of the shareholding and the second, 30 thousand kz.
