franchasofficia:
No no, you are getting me wrong.


I am not even about MIN stuffs per se, this following of crowd something is a useless Nigerian mentality, be it MIN or foreign made products.


I give you an example.


Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, Mercedes Benz VBoot, 190, C class, Volvo, Peugeots, Golf, even Opel Omega, Audi 80 were the craze of all car owners in Nigeria back then and it were as if no other car brands existed. The Camrys, Lexus, etc causing fever today were not in their picture. It was as if those brands were the only car brands in the world, until their crazy trend changed to some other brands.



Its not like that in most countries.


Today Nigerians have killed certain foreign car brands for no reason other than they are not the trend right now not that they are not good enough like you think its about quality or performance.


Nigerians have very closed mind towards young brands, be it made in Nigeria or foreign made, so long as the brand is not trending in Nigeria, nothing for you and this is the singular reason we have counterfeit or faking of popular brands as a big problem in Nigeria.



I tell you other countries give room to new brands.


It seems you haven't marketed a new product brand, foreign made to Nigerians before.


There was a time Nigerians outrightly rejected Howo Sinotruck trucks no matter your preaching to them until millions were spent pushing it until Aliko Dangote started patronizing it then Nigerians began to consider Howo Sinotruck trucks.


Now the same people producing Howo dump trucks are producing Shacman, and even Faw trucks but your countrymen will never agree to buy any other name thats not Howo despite the fact that all of them carry same weichai engine, same axle, same buckets, etc, now guess the outcome?

They have made Howo truck to become foolishly out of reach whereas Howo dump trucks are the same price with these other Chinese trucks in China and in other foreign markets.

Nigeria have a very big societal abi national problem holding the nation down but you may not understand it anyway

Trottle:


Well on point. This is very true, and partly why startup mortality is higher in Nigeria than other part of the world.

As a budding entrepreneur and one who has worked in the FMCG industry, I see this happening often and often. If you want to introduce a new indigenous product and get distributors, no matter how of superior quality it is, you will seriously struggle and might give up out of frustration, except you are rugged and have few loyal people who believe in your product.

Many brands are now dead due to this factor.

As a matter of fact, that was what led some of our shoe producers in Aba and other parts of the country out of frustration to start emblazoning made-in-China, Turkey, Italy to gain some patronage. Strangely, they start getting serious patronage.

We understand that some upcoming brands might not get it 100% right from the get go, but as time goes on, they'll improve tremendously. And this is one of the price we have to pay if we want to break the monopoly, get qualitative prices and build indigenous brands.

Currentblog:

Wow,
Nice meeting u,
Where do u live.

pocohantas:


Some said they purged terribly and couldn’t quite place it.

They don’t even sell it cheaper. It is sold at the same price as Bama. Premium nonsense.

CanineOfJackal:
I don't know the problem between the two of you but I know that you were his life saver during covid-19.

Make I keep quiet though I get reciepts

Currentblog:

Wahala for person wey dey use mayor of lagos oo.
Me wey water dey there,

I Go soak my[b] NAO bread[/b]
With pure well water,

Asap.

tolexy007:

guess u are from akure

pocohantas:
Twitter users ran to check theirs and it turns out that many people are currently consuming other brands thinking it is “Bama”.


For reasons best known to these criminals, they mostly imitate the smallest size.

doggedfighter:

please

pocohantas:

doggedfighter:


A yes?

pocohantas:


Lol. Yes…

pocohantas:


Lol. Yes…

Currentblog:

Wahala for person wey dey use mayor of lagos oo.
Me wey water dey there,

I Go soak my NAO bread
With pure well water,

Asap.

Trottle:


Well on point. This is very true, and partly why startup mortality is higher in Nigeria than other part of the world.

As a budding entrepreneur and one who has worked in the FMCG industry, I see this happening often and often. If you want to introduce a new indigenous product and get distributors, no matter how of superior quality it is, you will seriously struggle and might give up out of frustration, except you are rugged and have few loyal people who believe in your product.

Many brands are now dead due to this factor.

As a matter of fact, that was what led some of our shoe producers in Aba and other parts of the country out of frustration to start emblazoning made-in-China, Turkey, Italy to gain some patronage. Strangely, they start getting serious patronage.

We understand that some upcoming brands might not get it 100% right from the get go, but as time goes on, they'll improve tremendously. And[ this is one of the price we have to pay ]if we want to break the monopoly, get qualitative prices and build indigenous brands.