Our Story

Osah Thompson-Mensah

Founder & Executive Chairman

Nayra Amegbletor

Co-Founder

Kevin Saffee Baffoe

Co-Founder

Our story began in 2024 when our parent company, ThirdWell Commodities, was officially accredited as an "Inclusive Business" by the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) as part of the Inclusive Business Initiative in Ghana. As we celebrated being officially and nationally recognised as an 'Inclusive Business', the obvious question was 'what next?'. Official accreditation unearthed and recognised commercially viable SMEs driving real impact measured in income increase and improved living standards of BoPs. However, it did not solve any of the pertinent challenges faced by the SMEs accredited as Inclusive Businesses.

We believe that having identified businesses driving real impact, the next critical step is to scaleup these businesses to enable them scale their impact and drive systemic change.

Our story is thus anchored on the conviction that 'More Inclusive Business means More Sustainable Impact! More inclusive business and more sustainable impact can only be achieved if inclusive businesses scale-up and achieve sustainable growth in the long-term.

Whist there are many SME development programs and initiatives, most tend to focus on capacity building without necessarily offering the real hand-holding and transformative journey and financing that is most needed by SMEs.

Our solution to this challenge is the creation of a holistic, coherent and well-coordinated system that offers quality business services to prepare SMEs for financing; secures financing for SMEs; and manages SME-financier relationships to ensure satisfactory outcome for both SMEs and financiers.

Drawing on our collective experience of over 60 years, we have created ThirdWell Inclusive Business Centre (IBC) as a unique institution in the SME development space that focuses entirely on offering quality business services; access to financing; SME-financier relationship management; and monitoring of financing to prevent losses. In essence IBC is a one-stop business services centre and an eco-system manager ensuring a win-win partnership between SMEs, business services providers, development agencies, and financiers.

This is our story. Lets tell it together!

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Vision

‘To be the leading platform for promoting inclusive businesses across Africa”

Mission

“To strive for positive transformation of African economies by promoting the growth of inclusive businesses for more sustainable socio-economic impact and systemic change”

Core Values

Intergrity

Impact

Sustainabulity

Our Inspiration

"Inclusive businesses are the most sustainable medium to reducing poverty, creating wealth, and improving the living standards of persons in rural communities through innovative economic and social engagements".

Our Passion

Our passion is positive tranformation of our country by promoting the growth of inclusive businesses that create sustainable wealth in rural communities and improve incomes and living standards of persons living in these communities.

Our Objective

Our strategic objective is to create a One-Stop credible ecosystem for Investors, accredited inclusive businesses, development organizations, and public institutions to work together coherently to achieve sustainable growth and systemic impact.

OUR FOCUS

IBC is dedicated to promoting and growing inclusive businesses in Ghana. We believe in the power of inclusive business to drive positive and sustainable social and economic change. Our focus is to create a credible ecosystem for sustainable and impactful solutions that benefit both investors, businesses and local communities.

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OUR INITIATIVES

At IBC, we are committed to providing comprehensive and affordable business services to improve investor readiness of inclusive businesses and creating a well-managed and safe environment for investors. We are also committed to implementing meaningful programs that enhances the capacity of inclusive businesses to create sustainable impact for BoPs.

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OUR PARTNERS

Our success depends on meaningful partnerships and collaborations with government, public institutions, business associations, development agencies, international organizations, and business service providers. Together, we work towards building a more inclusive and equitable business ecosystem in Ghana and beyond.

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