A.G. Ferrero & Company, a firm registered under the Business Names Ordinance in 1953, was founded by Mr. Antonio Giovanni Ferrero, a youthful and vibrant Italian national who first arrived in Nigeria in the same year berthing in the old city of Kano. He was joined in the business in the 50th by his immediate younger brother, Giovanni (Nino) Ferrero and a yet younger brother, Italo Ferrero followed five years later.

1953

A.G. Ferrero & Company metamorphosed into the present A.G. Ferrero & Co. Ltd on 28th July 1959 when was incorporated as a private limited liability company (RC No. 1959) and took over the business of building construction previously undertaken by Messrs A.G. Ferrero & Company. With the status of Kaduna as the headquarters of the then Northern Region of Nigeria, it was no wonder that the Ferrero brothers decided to relocate their operational Head Office in Kaduna in 1959

1959

The first Head Office in Kaduna was located at Plot ‘D’ Ali Akilu Road (now housing residential quarters) before it was moved to Plot ‘E’ Makera Road, Kakuri, in the Kaduna South Industrial Area in 1960 (up to the present days). That strategic move paid off as was evident from the wide patronage and phenomenal expansion the company enjoyed from that time on, spreading its activities to the major cities of the region.

1960-1969

A.G. Ferrero & Co. Ltd has already on his record a number of projects successfully executed both in the building and civil field with state Governments and many other private Clients. One of its defining moments and the Major project of this decade was the Musa Usman State Secretariat, Borno State Phase I , II & III (1970-1979), the successful completion of this project drove the company into further prominence; it became one of the biggest and most well-known in Northern Nigeria

1970-1979

On 26th August 1982 A.G. Ferrero & Co. Ltd was registered under the highest category “D” with Federal Ministry of Works. The company now had branches in Kano, Maiduguri, Zaria, Minna and Jos, with many successful road and building projects under its belt.

1980-1989

This decade saw a strategic shift in A.G. Ferrero & Co. Ltd. It also opened a branch office in Abuja. Among many of the projects executed in this period were several building project in Universities (Hamadu Bello University Zaria, Federal University of Technology Minna), Hospitals (Mallam Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Phase I and IIA), State and Federal Governments (Petroleum Trust Fund), Ministries (Min. Of Defence, Works and Housing Kaduna) and several others.

1990-1999

At the beginning of the new millennium A.G. Ferrero & Co. Ltd re-positioned and re-focused is strategy on Four different divisions: Buildings, Civil, Prefabricates, Furniture. By this time it had already executed more than six hundred projects in Nigeria. The company has now expanded its activity to cover the full spectrum of Building & civil engineering, ranging across roads, water supply, sewerage systems, civil buildings, university complexes, hospitals, multi-storied office structures, mass housing, industrial complexes, religious buildings and public infra-structural works. In 2009 A.G. Ferrero & Co. Ltd has imported and fixed in Kaduna a full Precast plat for predalles and setup a Precast, this innovation served to speed up the execution in modular Building.

2000-2009

In this second decade A.G. Ferrero & Co. Ltd is still growing and focusing in projects with the major Nigerian Institutions as Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) State Governments among others. A.G. Ferrero & Co. Ltd has employed the service of M&E experts to be able to face the full Mechanical and Electrical Services required and opened the M&E Division . In 2012 A.G. Ferrero & Co. Ltd commitment has been recognized Internationally and won the International Quality Era Award in Genève (Suisse). The company future goal is to continue improve in international quality standard, and assure the Clients of the best service possible.