Business
‘Pure Water’ Marketer Nets N40,000 Daily In PH
A sachet water dealer other wise known as “pure water” in Diobu axis of Port Harcourt, Mr Christian Ononankeya, has said that he makes a daily turn-over of between N30,000 to N40,000 on the sale of pure water now that the season is set for the business.
Ononankeya who made this known to The Tide business in Port Harcourt said he decided to go into the marketing aspect of pure water because he could not meet up with the demands of going into production.
He said that he runs his business like a company, as he buys larger quality of bags of water and store them in deep freezers, and that when it is cooled, he resells to people that hawk the products.
According to him, “at the peak of the season, I used to sell between 300 to 400 bags of pure water a day at the rebate of N100 per bag, and I had to chill them in the deep freezers.”
On how he has been able to maintain his customers, Christian said that he is the type of person that most times allows customers to carry products for sale and make returns later, and that this has endeared him more to the people, adding that he some times finds it difficult to cope with the number of sellers making demand on him.
The pure water merchant, who has his shops situated at the Sangana axis of Mile One, Diobu, also posited that the major cost he incurs in the course of his business is that of NEPA bill, apart from the payment of workers wages.
One other major challenges of the business, according to him, is the problem of off-season, which he saw is always experienced during the raining season, pointing out that his sales at that time usually drops to about N7,000 a day.
He said that things became very difficult during that period that it becomes very difficult to pay salaries, but that as soon as the season is over, he renounces to clear up the back log of salaries.
Christian also called on government to allow the pure water business to thrive, because it a means of liverhood for the low-incane class, and that the business house helped him to be self reliant and feed his family.
The Tide observed that the cooling shop housed about 12 deep freezers, and pure water hawkers were trooping in to make purchases at the place.
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