End-to-end control
We do not recommend what we cannot build. Advice that leads to nothing tangible does not interest us.
Our story
Growth in stages
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Sept. 2014
Founding
Talents Sud is born, working in marketing and institutional and strategic communications.
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May 2017
Trading begins
Operational launch of the consultancy business and the first client assignments.
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Dec. 2017
Artistic department
Demand for boards, signs, backdrops and stands leads us to invest in our own production facility. We stop subcontracting.
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Dec. 2019
Pylons and illuminations
Expansion into pylons and masts, and into enhancement and illumination projects for junctions and public squares.
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Nov. 2023
Talents Sud International
The company is renamed, marking its opening to the sub-region.
Our vision
To bring businesses of every size and sector to recognise how central communication is to commercial success, and to meet the challenges of artistic construction in general and metalwork in particular.
Our values
What we commit to
We state them only because they hold up in practice. Each one commits us to something we could fairly be held to.
Evidence before promises
No recommendation before the diagnosis, no assignment closed without measuring the outcome. We would rather have a figure open to debate than a flattering impression.
Local work
What we can make in Benin, we make in Benin. Our investment goes into local production capacity and the skills that keep it running.
Passing on skills
We train our clients' teams so that they no longer need us, and we take young people into the workshop. A craft that is not passed on dies out.
Responsive around the clock
Our strapline is not a slogan: our installation teams work at night whenever a site's operations require it.
An exacting finish
The finish is what makes the difference. What we deliver has to last, under sun, rain and dust.
Our commitment
The finish is what makes the difference. Whether the work is intellectual or a piece of artistic construction, we stand behind the final result: what we deliver has to last, under sun, rain and dust. Work done well sustains our reputation, keeps our teams invested, and earns our clients' loyalty.
Our team
The women and men behind the projects
Managing Director
Strategy, institutional relations and key accounts.
Consulting Director
Audit, market research and institutional campaigns.
Workshop Manager
Boilermaking, welding, on-site assembly.
Art Director
Visual identity, print materials and wraps.
Our facilities
A workshop, not a subcontracting agency
Welding and boilermaking workshop in Gbégamey–Mifongou, a fleet of cutting and bending equipment, scaffolding and lifting gear, and a mobile installation team equipped for night work.
600 m²
of workshop and storage space
4 postes
MIG / TIG welding stations
30 m
proven installation height
5 pays
countries served in the sub-region
What sets us apart
Five reasons to trust us with your project
A complete chain
We design, we build and we install. The consultancy and the workshop report to the same management: no intermediaries, no subcontracting delays.
A single point of contact
One contract, one contact, one line of responsibility, from the study through to handover.
Rooted locally
We know the channels, the climatic constraints and the realities of West African markets, because we have worked in them since 2014.
A commitment to measurement
Our assignments close on indicators, not impressions.
An unusual range
From the communication strategy of a government ministry to the build of a trade show stand or a run of tourist souvenirs.
Our clients
Institutions, businesses and programmes we have supported
Let's work together.
Tell us what you want to make visible. We reply within 24 hours.