Honeywell Flour Mills: Company Profile, Overview, and Culture

Honeywell Flour Mills is a Nigerian food processing company founded in 1995 to market wheat-based products such as semolina, wheat meal, white flour, brown flour, and more. The company was initially registered in 1985 as Gateway Honeywell flour mills before the change of ownership happened which led to the new name - Honeywell Flour Mills. In 2009, the company became listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange after it was tagged a public liability company (Plc) in 2008.

Who is the owner of Honeywell Flour Mills?

Oba Ayoola Otudeko, the founder and owner of the Honeywell Group, also owns Honeywell Flour Mills. 

Location

The company operates from the following places:

• Plot YABB, Mobolaji Johnson Avenue, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.

• Honeywell Flour Mills Plc. 2nd Gate, Tin Can Island, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria. 

• Honeywell Flour Mills Plc. Flowergate industrial estate, off Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Off Sagamu-Abeokuta expressway, Ogun state, Nigeria.

Products of Honeywell Flour Mills

• Honeywell superfine flour

• Honeywell composite flour

• Honeywell brown flour

• Honeywell Wheat meal

• Honeywell Semolina

• Honeywell Pasta

• Honeywell Indomie

Key People

• Nino Albert Ozara - Executive director and Manufacturing director

• Obafemi Adedamola Otudeko - Non-Executive Director

• Alan Palmer - Non-Executive Director

• Ayoola Oba Otudeko - Non-Executive Chairman

• Theophilus Oluranti Sokunbi - Independent Non-Executive Director

• Zate Raymond Koupo - Independent Non-Executive Director

• Wonuola Adetayo - Independent Non-Executive

• Olanrewaju Bamidele Jaiyeola - Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer 

• Ibukun Ojo - Finance Director

• Babatunde Adebayo - General manager (Sagamu Operations) 

• Doyin Ibrahim - Treasurer

• Mobolaji Fakayode - Finance controller 

• Abu Abari - Chief Engineer

• Andrew Smith Maxwell - Non-executive Directors

• Yewande Ghre - Secretary

• Aderoju Oluseye Ogunwole - Manager- National sales

The company culture at Honeywell Flour Mills

According to the reviews on Glassdoor, Honeywell Flour Mills is a company that understands the importance of a good work-life balance. Also, these reviews revealed that the company creates an interesting atmosphere for workers to carry out their daily operations without burning out. Other reviews didn't fail to mention that HFM pays their workers good salaries and even gives a salary advance when necessary. The organization also creates an opportunity for training and other employee engagement programs. 

News on HFM

Last year, news disclosed that Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN)  acquired a 71.69% stake in Honeywell Flour Mills (HFM). HFM says it believes that the transaction is a good one that happened at the right time. Furthermore, HFM expects the acquisition to merge the two businesses with common objectives to become one and serve the entire Nigerian populace even better. 

Awards/Achievements

• HFM received the NIS award for its super fine flour - 2004

• Became the first flour mill to be awarded the NIS certification in recognition of its quality management systems - 2006

• Awarded by MANCAP (Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme)  for the good quality of its semolina brand - 2007

• Corporate Award for Excellence in Human Resource Practice - 2015

• HFM built a multi-million factory in Shagamu - 2017

• HFM crossed 100 billion naira in revenue - 2021

The company declared its current total revenue to be $357.99 million.

Catch up with Honeywell Flour Mills on these platforms

LinkedIn: Honeywell Flour Mills Plc.

Twitter: Honeywellfoods

Facebook: Honeywellfoods 

Instagram: Honeywellfoods

Website: www.honeywellflour.com