Frozen foods are food items stored and preserved in cooling temperatures around -18℃ with the intent of commercializing them. The most common list of frozen foods in Nigeria includes fish, chicken, turkey, beef, gizzards, meat (pork), etc.
Frozen foods are known to be more convenient, safer to use, and more hygienic, in terms of freedom from bacteria and food pathogens.
The frozen foods industry is a highly profitable venture in many parts of the world, particularly in Nigeria. This is due to population growth and an increasing demand for convenience foods. With relatively few players in the market, the industry is far from saturated.
Develop A Good Business Plan
Write a business plan first and stick to it. The purpose of putting a strategy in place first is to avoid any form of failure in the near future. This requires conducting thorough research and then drafting a feasibility report on the business with a focus on the frozen food industry in Nigeria.
Make Available Your Capital For Your Frozen Food Business
To start a frozen food business in Nigeria you will need a sufficient amount of capital aside from the capital you have at hand, there are still several ways to generate funds for your business, including loans from the government, microfinance banks, grants.
Get A Suitable Location
It is very vital when you set up your frozen foods company. It can be your property or a leased store but the place should be open and available. It is not necessary that it must be in a market place, just a good store by the road. A hidden or secluded area is likely to not succeed in this business.
Get A Cold Room Preferably Solar-powered Cold Room
A cold room is a specially designed room chamber or enclosure that is well insulated or lagged to prevent direct thermal flow out of the room in order to keep perishable frozen food items from spoiling.
A normal cold room typically uses electricity and a diesel generator, which is a very common cold room that many frozen food business people use. Those who use normal cold room make more profit before, but now that diesel prices have skyrocketed, it is affecting many frozen food businesses in Nigeria, which is why it is preferable to get a solar-powered cold room.
Culled from: https://www.dekoolar.com
