Our Services
Business Advisory
Business Advisory Overview
LEA advises clients on best practices in business, resource management, product costing and legal matters. The Authority assists with product packaging, labelling and care to make products stand out. At LEA, we understand that running a business comes with challenges. We coach and advise you on how to mitigate those challenges and grow your business.
Incubation
Our Incubators
The Glen Valley Horticulture Incubator was established with the objective of empowering horticulture entrepreneurs with skills to manage sustainable horticulture projects as commercial entities with the intent that they contribute to the national economy through increased output of high-quality year-round supply of horticulture commodities. In addition to achieving food security, the program is intended to facilitate employment creation.
DURATION: 9 MONTHS
Glen Valley Horticulture Incubator Provides
- Inputs
- Space
- Training and Technical support
- Client produces tomatoes
- LEA and client market and sells products
Contact Information
Plot 63069, Extension 67 Private Bag X035, Village, BotswanaTel: (267) 3186309
Fax: (267) 3186437
The Incubator is a light manufacturing industry and services businesses through the provision of business and technical interventions.It is worth noting that the FIBI still assists clients who have graduated from the Incubator, via Virtual Incubation and technical support.
DURATION: 2 YEARS
Francistown Business Incubator Provides
Focus on mining related products such as nuts, bolts and other metal works Other blocks to service Textile (Protective clothing), Carpentry. Subsidized rates Materials bulk purchasing facility Technology and business coaching
Contact Information
Plot 1607, Light Industrial Area Private Bag F358, Francistown, BotswanaTel: (267) 2418036/ 3847
Fax: (267) 2416242
Pilane Incubator operates as a Multi-Purpose incubation program focusing on food processing and light industrial manufacturing. The incubator provides technical and business interventions for the growth of clients in the food and light industrial manufacturing sector.
DURATION: 2 YEARS
Pilane Provides
- Focus on Food Processing and Manufacturing
- Subsidized rates
- Technology and business coaching
Contact Information
Pilane Old Industrial Site, Plot 4 Private Bag 0069, Pilane, BotswanaTel: (267) 5729146
Fax: (267) 5729178
The incubator was started in 2017 as a multisector incubator offering different types manufacturing ventures such as, toilet paper production, water bottling, wire nails production, bakery & confectionary, tomato ketchup, cornflakes production, and sunflower oil extraction amongst others. Overtime, because of some improvements in the incubation programme taking a posture to infuse technology and innovation the incubation, the incubator opened its facility to more innovative manufacturing with emphasis on value addition to common products. The aim is to be a technology focused incubator. The facility also provides subsidized rates to incubates from services such as rental and utilities. Kutla Incubator prides itself on trainings in different production to which some enterprises were born from and are still thriving throughout the country.
DURATION: 2 YEARS
Currently, the incubator has SMMEs in the food and beverages sub sector employing 24 staff, beauty and cosmetics employing 13 staff, building and construction sub sector employing 6 staff as well as medical consumables sub sector employing 33 staff. Products being produced at the incubator include medical blood collection tubes & viral transport media, light roof trusses, jams and sauces, skin & beauty products, different breads and cakes as well as beverages including water. There is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles enterprise which is temporarily incubated in conjunction with Botswana Innovation Hub and completing the prototypes of different surveillance drones for commercialization.
Focus areas
- Technology and innovation
- Value addition manufacturing
- Technology support and business coaching
Contact Information
Plot 1215, Nkrumah Road Old Industrial Private Bag 201544 Gaborone, BotswanaTel: (267) 3186810
Fax: +267 3105334
Toll-free No. 0800 155 155 II Email: botsalea@lea.co.bw
The Gaborone Leather Industries Incubator was started in 2010 mainly to house businesses in the manufacturing of leather products. Transformation over time has seen the incubator diversifying into other related products manufacturing like a mix of leather & textile, leather and leather-related products or a combination thereof. Manufacturers at the incubator have gone on to supply the mining industry with high quality PPE.
DURATION: 2 YEARS
While the emphasis is leather and related products manufacturing, the incubator has housed enterprises in other sub sectors like medical consumables (face masks), animal feeds as well as beauty and cosmetics.
Focus areas
- Leather and related products manufacturing
- Value addition manufacturing
- Technology support and business coaching
Contact Information
Plot 4799/ 4800. Old BEDU Premise, Macheng Way Private Bag 301, Gaborone, BotswanaTel: (267) 3105330
Fax: (267) 3105334
Toll-free No. 0800 155 155 II Email: botsalea@lea.co.bw
Market Access
Market Access Overview
“LEA is responsible for providing basic and advanced market access interventions aimed at transforming LEA-supported brands (SMMEs) into homegrown bestselling brands both locally and globally. The Authority is also charged with influencing and initiating relevant policy formulation, championing strategies and support ecosystems to improve the prowess of SMMEs in key markets.”