Obituary: The billionaire Jean Samuel Noutchogouin is no longer

The CFAO group representing the brands Toyota, Suziki, Peugeot, etc. - the BIC ballpoint pen, plastic utensils ICRAFON or the Atlantic Bank; are part of the uses and the economic and industrial landscape of Cameroon. However, very few are those who know the successful businessman behind these great brands. 

Jean Samuel Noutchogouin has indeed made discretion a management brand. Unknown to the general public, man has nevertheless built his fortune in agribusiness and the importation of everyday objects; like the famous ballpoint pen "Bic" which he was the Cameroon representative of the famous French brand. 

Born in 1933 in Bandjoun (Western Region), Jean Samuel Noutchogouin is ranked in 2017 by Forbes magazine as one of the largest fortunes in Cameroon and Africa, with a portfolio estimated at more than $ 315 million. 

In "The measure of my steps", an autobiographical book that the self-made man commissioned in 2015, we learn that the little orphan develops trading skills at the small market in Bandjoun where his mother sent him every morning. "Over the course of haggling and speculation, he discovers his vocation and leaves 'l'école du Blanc' where he will have only spent a few months," wrote Haman Mana, Director of publication of daily newspaper Le Jour, and close of the family. 

Jean Samuel Noutchogouin was a polygamist, father of many children whom he pushed into studies and solid careers.

Source: journalducameroun.com