Here is a story of a woman, Ononye Chioma, MD of Ranks West Africa
Limited (a food processing Company) and how she built Ranks West
Africa Limited from scratch to a highly competitive brand.
Ononye Chioma, a graduate of Applied micro-biology shares her
challenges, how she started,and her dreams in a story I got from The
Sun Newspaper, Titled "I started my business from one room -
Chioma,Ranks W/Africa", published on September 12,2015 and I want to
share it with you. Today,the company can boast of over seven products
and large staff strength but it all started in a one room apartment,10
years ago.
When asked about how she started her company. She said "I started
searching for jobs like most graduate in Nigeria, after I graduated in
2002 and completed my youth service in Kogi State. I applied to
several places but nothing was forthcoming. Later, I was employed in a
food processing company as the quality control manager, or so I
thought. Unknown to me that the company in question needed me to be
part of their organisation because of my qualification to enable them
to obtain their National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and
Control (NAFDAC) registration number. After which, they started acting
funny, I had no choice but to move on. I continued my search in the
labour market till God inspired me to go into food production and
processing business which I started from one of my rooms. Officially,
we took off in 2004. We started with the production and processing of
whole wheat flour and rice flour. By the end of 2005, we moved the
company to a bigger apartment and then invited NAFDAC for inspection
and registration. After NAFDAC registration, we started producing more
products like the unripe plantain flour which was also registered."
She talked about their products and how the products are doing in the
market and also mentioned the products they have added. She continued
"Presently, we have added six products since we started and these
products are borne out of quality research. Most of our products are
borne out of the desire to meet specific needs, which was why we began
to research on grains to meet particular health needs. Some of these
products are beans flour, plantain flour, soya meal, ofada rice,
breadfruit and local wheat. The local wheat is no longer in the market
because the price used in manufacturing it is very high compared to
the imported one, so its production and processing could not strive
competitively in the market. Most of our products are tailored to meet
the needs of different people in the society, for instance our bean
flour is convenient for women, especially working class women. In a
moment, you can prepare beans cake or moi-moi. It also serves as a
soup thickener; as they don't have to go through the process of
washing and removing the peels and we are NAFDAC certified."
Your dreams are achievable,launch out today. God bless you.
To be continued....
Limited (a food processing Company) and how she built Ranks West
Africa Limited from scratch to a highly competitive brand.
Ononye Chioma, a graduate of Applied micro-biology shares her
challenges, how she started,and her dreams in a story I got from The
Sun Newspaper, Titled "I started my business from one room -
Chioma,Ranks W/Africa", published on September 12,2015 and I want to
share it with you. Today,the company can boast of over seven products
and large staff strength but it all started in a one room apartment,10
years ago.
When asked about how she started her company. She said "I started
searching for jobs like most graduate in Nigeria, after I graduated in
2002 and completed my youth service in Kogi State. I applied to
several places but nothing was forthcoming. Later, I was employed in a
food processing company as the quality control manager, or so I
thought. Unknown to me that the company in question needed me to be
part of their organisation because of my qualification to enable them
to obtain their National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and
Control (NAFDAC) registration number. After which, they started acting
funny, I had no choice but to move on. I continued my search in the
labour market till God inspired me to go into food production and
processing business which I started from one of my rooms. Officially,
we took off in 2004. We started with the production and processing of
whole wheat flour and rice flour. By the end of 2005, we moved the
company to a bigger apartment and then invited NAFDAC for inspection
and registration. After NAFDAC registration, we started producing more
products like the unripe plantain flour which was also registered."
She talked about their products and how the products are doing in the
market and also mentioned the products they have added. She continued
"Presently, we have added six products since we started and these
products are borne out of quality research. Most of our products are
borne out of the desire to meet specific needs, which was why we began
to research on grains to meet particular health needs. Some of these
products are beans flour, plantain flour, soya meal, ofada rice,
breadfruit and local wheat. The local wheat is no longer in the market
because the price used in manufacturing it is very high compared to
the imported one, so its production and processing could not strive
competitively in the market. Most of our products are tailored to meet
the needs of different people in the society, for instance our bean
flour is convenient for women, especially working class women. In a
moment, you can prepare beans cake or moi-moi. It also serves as a
soup thickener; as they don't have to go through the process of
washing and removing the peels and we are NAFDAC certified."
Your dreams are achievable,launch out today. God bless you.
To be continued....
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