Our story

Cameroonian by origin, Philippe SITCHEU TCHANGOUE settled in Congo over twenty years ago. A graduate engineer from the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Douala (1998), he began his career at COMTECH as an industrial site supervisor, an experience that shaped his technical rigor and organizational mindset. It was in Brazzaville that he started a family, and it was there too that the project which would become Congo Food Process was quietly born. Before 2017, GTE, the company he ran, was limited to a small general trading business at Marché Total, in the Bacongo district, Avenue Malonga: onions, garlic, everyday essentials. In parallel, with no connection to her husband's business, his wife was already informally selling processed peanuts and plantain chips to neighbors and local customers: entirely manual work, where roasting and grinding peanuts could take several hours. Philippe watched. He saw exhausting labor, but also real, recurring demand. In 2017, he invested in the company's first roasting machine. What used to take several hours now took just minutes. That same year, GTE was formally registered as GTE SARLU, with a new food-processing division that absorbed and industrialized what his wife had been doing on a small scale. Success came quickly, and the small artisanal unit grew. In 2025, this processing activity entered a new phase with the creation of Congo Food Process (CFP), a company that takes over and develops the agro-food division first launched by GTE SARLU in 2017, with the ambition of building a modern, compliant production line geared toward the domestic market and, in time, export to North America. Even today, many long-standing customers in the neighborhood still call the company "GTE", a name that recalls where CFP truly comes from: a simple observation, a real need, and the conviction that Congolese artisanal know-how deserves industrial tools to grow without losing itself. Still active in civil engineering and agriculture, Philippe SITCHEU TCHANGOUE embodies a versatile leadership profile, committed to economic self-sufficiency and the modernization of local supply chains.