National Foods opens depot in Shamva

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The Shamva depot, which is the first in the area, is intended to give general dealers, small traders and farmers in the area easy access to the group’s products.
Prior to this, retailers and traders had to travel to Harare to buy National Foods products at wholesale price.
The Shamva depot is the only outlet in Shamva offering wholesale pricing on bulk purchases.
Like other National Foods depots it serves both as a distribution point for the group’s products and as a collection point for raw materials, such as grain and soyabeans, for its mills and production processes.
“This is the first National Foods depot to be opened in Shamva. It gives easy access to our customers for our bulk products at competitive prices,” National Foods head of marketing Mr Anthony Kinnaird said.
“Our aim is to increase the availability of our products there and to make them available at affordable prices.
“Previously our customers in Shamva had to travel all the way to Harare to obtain our products at wholesale prices and to deliver their grain.
“Now they have a depot right on their doorstep, where they can buy our goods at affordable prices and sell us the raw materials we need.
“The ready access that general dealers and traders in Shamva now have to our products should enable them to sell these products at cheaper prices to the general public, since they no longer have to factor into their prices the cost of transporting them from Harare.
“We hope, therefore, that the opening of this depot will benefit not only retailers and traders, who can buy from us, but everyone in the Shamva area,” he said.
Products available at the depot include all Red Seal products, such as roller meal and Pearlenta maize meal, salt, beans, rice and popcorn. They also include Gloria flour, Mahatma rice, other National Foods brands of rice, Red Seal and Homepride cooking oil, National Foods stockfeeds and many other products.