07/29/2026
7 years in the making.
This transaction with Eden Tree Ltd, in partnership with Black Star Africa, is the fruit of Pangea Africa’s seven years operating as a business advisory firm—listening, learning, and building trusted relationships across the West African agribusiness ecosystem.
Pangea has now evolved from advising growing businesses to directly investing our own capital into them. Eden Tree embodies our core investment thesis:
✅ Invest in Women's Leadership: Honoring and expanding on Founder Catherine Krobo Edusei's trailblazing 29-year legacy, with Tracy Boswell joining the Board of Directors.
✅ Drive Impact: Delivering scalable nutrition solutions through private enterprise.
✅ Unlock Growth: Backed by strong financial fundamentals and a clear operational growth strategy.
This is the first of what Pangea plans to be many carefully planned impact investments in the region—building on our team’s combined operational experience, local knowledge, and trusted relationships.
Thank you to Investisseurs & Partenaires - I&P Francis Owusu and our many partners, stakeholders, and team who made this landmark deal possible.
Tracy Boswell Scicchitano John Scicchitano
Catherine Krobo Edusei has sold majority control of Eden Tree, the fresh produce company she founded in Accra in 1997 and built into one of Ghana's best-known food brands over 29 years.
The buyers are Pangea Africa, an investment and advisory firm focused on West African food systems, and Black Star Africa, a private operational holding company specialising in turnarounds and supply chain work. The value was not disclosed. Krobo Edusei moves to founder emeritus and takes a seat on the board, Grant Webber of Black Star becomes chief executive, and Pangea director Tracy Boswell Scicchitano joins the board. The deal takes out Investisseurs & Partenaires, the French impact investor that has held shares in Eden Tree since 2015, in a secondary exit the parties say shows the Ghanaian financial ecosystem can now structure multi-tiered transactions without an international trade buyer.
Krobo Edusei returned to Ghana from Britain in 1996 and started with herbs after finding that fresh varieties were only sold in imported dried form. Eden Tree now supplies more than 80 varieties sourced from over 375 outgrower farming families, operating from a processing facility in Tema, and provides soft loans to farmers to buy inputs. The new owners plan to install solar-powered cooling units near farms, expand drip irrigation and organise outgrower cooperatives, targeting post-harvest losses that run as high as 50 percent for fresh fruit and vegetables in parts of West Africa. Boswell Scicchitano said the incoming shareholders intended to maintain the company's record of female leadership at governance level.
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