Archives Tag: Brands we love
Brands We Love: Mikano
April 19, 2022
You probably know what a Mikano generator looks like. So you won’t be surprised to learn that its producer is Nigeria’s biggest assembler of power generating sets. They are also a proudly Nigerian brand, with products that provide some competition for imported alternatives. Read more about Brands we love A lesser-known fact about Mikano Industries … Continue reading Brands We Love: Mikano
Brands We Love: Narganics
April 19, 2022
Nigerians love to look good. They treasure nice cuts, fine hairdos, smooth clear skin, and glowing faces. And they’re willing to spend a fair bit to achieve these features for themselves. Read more about Brand We Love In 2017, they bought beauty and personal care products worth more than ₦490 billion. This includes ₦92 … Continue reading Brands We Love: Narganics
SME Spotlight: Vestar Coffee
April 19, 2022
Nigeria doesn’t boast a coffee culture that’s comparable to what you’ll find in Europe and North America. It’s not a top consumer of the beverage on the continent. You will be hard-pressed to find individuals outside of the economic elite who can tell what ‘Arabica’ is, or explain the difference between a Cappuccino and an … Continue reading SME Spotlight: Vestar Coffee
Brands We Love: Taos Cosmetics
April 19, 2022
When Vanessa Onwughalu founded Taos Cosmetics, she had her sights set on filling a pressing need— the relative lack of beauty products designed specifically for Africans. This was a real gap waiting to be filled, especially in the United Kingdom where Onwughalu lived at the time. It was in 2014, a time in which that … Continue reading Brands We Love: Taos Cosmetics
Brands We Love: Grey Velvet Stores
April 19, 2022
When Isioma Aihie founded Grey Velvet Stores in 2012, she was firmly focused on achieving one thing: making the work of Nigeria’s best budding designers accessible to the public. And in the eight years since its founding, the outfit has ticked this box with the many wears it’s stocked and sold. Read more about Brands … Continue reading Brands We Love: Grey Velvet Stores
Brands We Love: Drugfield Pharmaceuticals
April 19, 2022
Nigeria’s pharmaceutical industry is populated by several large players and smaller companies. Each brand has a unique history. Some arose decades ago, to address a lack of indigenous drug manufacturers in the country. Others came on the scene relatively recently, and have been making their mark on an increasingly competitive local market for pharmaceutical products. … Continue reading Brands We Love: Drugfield Pharmaceuticals
Brands We Love: McNichols Plc
April 19, 2022
Nigeria is home to the largest market for Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) in Africa. A report published by KPMG in 2016 valued Nigerian households’ expenditure on FMCG at over $41 billion, much larger than those of any other country on the continent. Nigeria’s huge (and growing) population is largely responsible for this. Demand … Continue reading Brands We Love: McNichols Plc
Brands We Love: Redoxcorp
April 19, 2022
Economies need physical mobility. Products need to be moved from their place of manufacture to locations in which they’re accessible by retailers and consumers. The vehicles that meet this need are helping to sustain global commerce in more ways than one. Read more about Brands We Love This industry of load-bearing vans, trucks, and planes– … Continue reading Brands We Love: Redoxcorp
Top 10 Brands of 2020
April 19, 2022
It’s been a mixed year for business. A pandemic slowed things down quite early on, forcing companies the world over to make difficult decisions. Many struggled– and failed –to get past the tough headwinds that COVID-19 sent their way. But others have powered on through the challenging conditions. A number of them have maintained their … Continue reading Top 10 Brands of 2020
Brands We Love: Grand Cereals
April 19, 2022
Nigeria’s demand for livestock-derived products continues to grow. It’s driven by a population that’s fast-expanding, and by the public’s unwavering love for meat, eggs, and milk. Read more about Brands We Love The farmers churning out these products need their animals healthy, so they can keep output high enough to meet soaring demand. For this, … Continue reading Brands We Love: Grand Cereals
Brands We Love: Fidson Healthcare
April 19, 2022
Nigeria’s population is growing rapidly. That means more mouths to feed, more bodies to clothe, and more shelter to build. It also potentially means an expanding demand for medicines, as ailments will remain a part of people’s experience. Read more about Brand we love The country’s pharmaceutical industry could be worth $94 billion in the … Continue reading Brands We Love: Fidson Healthcare
Brands We Love: Eleganza
April 19, 2022
Somewhere along the popular Mobolaji Johnson Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos sits a large industrial complex. Behind the gates and walls, heavy-duty machines churn out a continuous series of plastic products: chairs, bottles, travel boxes, coolers, and even hair thread. The fabrication is supervised by workers clad in protective overalls. Read more about Brands We Love … Continue reading Brands We Love: Eleganza
Brands We Love: Signal Alliance
April 19, 2022
Signal Alliance is one of the older IT service companies in Nigeria. It’s a business-facing brand, which offers end-to-end technology solutions to some of the country’s biggest organizations. Its products range from cloud-based office tools to data security and encompass managed IT, application development, data centre services, and Internet protocol-based communication. Read more about Brands … Continue reading Brands We Love: Signal Alliance
Brands We Love: Chams Plc
April 19, 2022
Chams Plc is Nigeria’s foremost digital identity management solutions provider. It has played a role in the majority of the country’s ID projects, including supplying technology that supports the biometric data capture for the national identity card, BVN, and banking payment solutions. Read more about Brands We Love Founded in 1985 as a computer maintenance … Continue reading Brands We Love: Chams Plc
Brands We Love: Onward Paper Mill
April 19, 2022
If you attended school in Nigeria within the last forty years, there’s a chance that you took lesson notes in an Onward Paper exercise book. You probably still use one now. Those paperback notebooks are the product of Onward Paper Mills, one of Nigeria’s oldest paper product producers. The company also manufactures envelopes, makes labels … Continue reading Brands We Love: Onward Paper Mill
