Name:Â Chisomo Givah
Contact Number:Â 0999557092
Business Name:Â AG Engineering
Industry:Â Construction
Business Location:Â Lilongwe
Service Description:Â
Construction services and construction management
Role in the Business:Â Director
Full Time or Part time:Â Part Time
How many employees do you have? 3
How much in Sales do you want to generate in a month? 30,000,000.00
How did you fund the start of your Business? Loan
What are some Milestones you have achieved in your Business?Â
Bought our own light machinery for construction and completed our first project.
What are some challenges you’re facing in your Business?Â
Getting clients
Finalizing certification with construction industry regulator
| What Industry / Category is your Business in? | What are some challenges you're facing in the Business? |
|---|---|
| Information Technology | Clientelle Growth |
| Cosmetics | Scarcity of forex |
| Business and Legal consultancy | How to market it and get clients and how to grow it. |
| Media/Communication | Funding and resource mobilisation to sustain the business. Competition and political intervention |
| Retail and Distribution | Staff pilfering, stiff competition, |
| Service Provider | Marketing |
| Electronics | Poeple resisting to believe online sells |
| Infrastructure development | - corruption tendencies I.e. potential clients especoally in public sector seeking personal compensation to award you a project. |
| Agriculture | Price escalation of farm inputs , pest and diseases ,and lack of a reliqble market |
| General trading | Escalating prices of inputs |
| Cosmetics, Beauty and self-care | |
| Food | 1. Lack of enough funding |
| Financial Consultancy | Human resource capacity to assist me do the work that I do. |
| ICT | Corruption |
| Agriculture | Climate Change |
| General Trading | Market penetration, supervision |
| General | Reduced commissions in mobile money services |
| Construction | 1. Late payments, especially Government projects. |
| Food | Taking things without paying 0 |
| Retail and whole sales | Not enough capital, As a result expenditures becomes high when you go to order |
| Hospitality | - Rising ingredient prices |
| Construction | Getting clients |
| Hospitality | Unstable government policy |
| Entertainment | Decrease in number of customers |
| Farming (Animal Husbandry) | Security |
| Food Industry | Revenue collection, Steady Cash Flow, and Supplies |
| Food | Sickness |
| Food stuff | -lack of funds to grow my business |
| Food stuff(cooked) | -lack of funds to grow my business |
| Food | Lack of capital due to frequent withdrawal of funds from the business |
| Food stuff | -lack of funds to grow my business |
| Food stuff(selling fish) | -lack of funds to grow the business |
| Food stuff(samosa,zibwente,zitenje,pumpkins ) | -lack of funds to grow my business |
| Food stuff | - lack of funds for capital sometimes |
| Resources | Lack of capital |
| Food | Giving commodities without full payment |
| General Trading | Dishonesty of employees |
| General Suppliers | Forex |
| General Suppliers | Forex |
| General Trading | lack of customers |