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Bernabe Cote d’Ivoire (BRVM: BNBC<\/a>), a hardware and building materials distributor founded in 1953, posted a net profit of just 22.3 million FCFA ($39,900) in 2025 on revenue of 45.3 billion FCFA ($81m) — a margin so thin it barely registers. The company is operationally sound but financially trapped.<\/p>\n The problem is its balance sheet. Bernabe carries 18.5 billion FCFA ($33.1m) in short-term bank borrowings — more than 40% of total assets — to finance the inventory it must hold before customers…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Bernabe Cote d’Ivoire (BRVM: BNBC), a hardware and building materials distributor founded in 1953, posted a net profit of just 22.3 million FCFA ($39,900) in 2025 on revenue of 45.3 billion FCFA ($81m) — a margin so thin it barely registers. The company is operationally sound but financially trapped. The problem is its balance sheet. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,54361,11509,5958,6183,6555,5959,21811,12412,1218,257,34058,254],"class_list":["post-233192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bernabe","tag-costs","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-earnings","tag-financing","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-overwhelm","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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