Cold room business in Nigeria is one of the multi-billion naira, silent businesses. Right here from where I am sitting, I can count up to five multi-millionaires that I know made their money from cold room/ food preservation business.
What does cold room business entail?
It involves selling of pre-packaged and preserved food items in Nigeria. When you say cold room business in Nigeria, what readily comes to mind is Frozen Fish or poultry products like chicken and turkey but it goes far beyond that.
There are other products that are sold by cold room operators including frozen yoghurt, Ice Cream, Ice Block, Soya Milk, Prawns and basically, any food item that needs refrigeration as a means of preservation.
Starting a card room business in Nigeria involves taking the following steps-:
Location
First, you have to look for a very good warehouse which you can use as your cold room. The place needs to be spacious and well ventilated in order to guarantee adequate preservation of your products.
Determine Your Scale of Business
There are different scales of cold room business in Nigeria. You can either go for the small scale cold room business which would only entail selling to immediate customers or go full scale, which would involve manufacturing/packaging or importing your products yourself.
For people who want to engage in small-scale cold room business, all you need is a good shop, refrigerators or a min-cold room, constant power supply and of course, access to cheap supply of products.
Registration with NAFDAC
Since you would be dealing in consumable food items and may also be importing some of your products, it is necessary to register with NAFDAC. You can visit their website, www.nafdac.com for more information on this. However, this is only required for large scale businesses.
Determine Products to Sell
You should look around you and do a proper research on the most lucrative items to sell. I could tell you that Frozen Fish and Chicken are some of the fastest selling products but what if it doesn’t sell in your location due to stiff competition? The onus therefore rests on you to determine what products would sell faster and better in your location.
Construct a Cold Room
You need to hire someone to construct a cold room for you if you cannot afford already-made ones. If you are running your business on a large scale, refrigerators alone might not be sufficient.
Constant Electricity Supply
PHCN is not your friend in this business; they would mess you up. So get yourself a good, strong stand-by generator to provide constant access to electricity. This is extremely important in order to avoid goods going bad due to absence of electricity.
Determine Source of Supply
Where would you get your goods from? This is a very important decision to make. If you are venturing into frozen fish, meat or turkey business, it is possible for you to process and package your products yourself.
You could have a farm where you would raise live chickens or livestock and then have them slaughtered and processed for sale upon maturity. You can also process and package other products yourself. This would guarantee you more profit than when you import products.
Other things you would need for this business include packaging supplies, measuring scales, tables, polythene bags or cartons, bowls, knives and support staff.
I have interest in the business, with a small capital, I need funding to help start it with the hope of paying back within a record time.
Can i establish a standard cold room business in my compound which is situated in a residential area? I will be distributing my products to customers with a refrigerating van.
How profitable is a cold room business? I have an old cold room facility I intend to upgrade and start off.
What are the challenges aside power supply? How do you take stock? Are there pilferage of the cold products? Etc
Can I start a coldroom business with 1..5 million naria using about 5 freezers? If so, which generator will you advice for the capacity?
gENTS,
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Pls I’m urgently interested in starting this business,I need ur support on how to start.
hello,
I am Christy from China.
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Any needs, contact me.
How much is a mini cold room?
i am interested, can you come to Nigeria to set it up for me?
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Pls can I own a cold room with N400k?
I love to go into this cold room business but what does it cost to start a profitable one. Av already had a contact and promising support of a company that import fishes into Nigeria
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Can your company design a solar powered cold room
Thank you for this eye opener. Please, I need a consultant to enable me avoid sloppy path
PLEASE HOW CAN SOMEONE GET INVESTORS TO FUND THE BUSINESS.BECAUSE AM INTERESTED.AND I HAVE NO MONEY TO FUND START THE BUSINESS.
please drop your number let’s talk coz I want to start the business
What are the products of a cold room business
PLEASE, I WOULD LIKE TO START UP A COLD ROOM BUSINESS @ ASABA & AGBOR DELTA STATE @ MEDIUM SCALE LEVEL. CAN U PLEASE HELP ME WITH AN APPROXIMATE INITIAL COST OUTLAY & SOME OF THE BASIC THINGS I WOULD NEED FOR THE TIME BEEN!
I Have a 26footer cold room for sale. its Tokunbo, very clean going for 3.7M Call me on 0809 182 2290 if you are interested
I need the contact of someone already in the business and that of an engineer that can build a cold room pls
call 08036320881
hi Sir ,
I’m Tina from Moon referigeration. We provide one-stop custom service.
We also have engineers can go abroad,
if you want ,I can show you our factory in ten minutes.
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I want to start a cool room business in Nigeria,Lagos to be precisely. I will like to know if you will drop me your number to be able to talk to you asap.
Hello bro..
Can I have your number so we can talk?
I want to start same in ilorin kwara state..
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I want to start cold room business in uyo. I need a starter pack of medium scale.
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Hello Solomon have you stated your cool room business if you have can you please put me through because I want to start but don’t know how. Any help will be appreciated 09069193592 am also in uyo
Hello Solomon have you stated your cool room business if you have can you please put me through because I want to start but don’t know how. Any help will be appreciated
I me abt wholesale prices of frozen foods
Please I’m interested in starting up a small scale cold room business, please I need links of frozen foods suppliers, my shop is at Ikeja airforce base, I need a contact of someone who can be supplying the products at a very cheap retailed price.
I’m engineer
Pls can you help with a link of how to get a midum new or fearly used cold room. The cost and how to get.
I have a cold room to sell for 400,000 working perfectly call 09085299968
were the location.
GOOD DAY WHAT IS THE SIZE HAVE YOU BEING USING IT WHAT IS THE CAPACITY OF GENERATOR THAT CAN OF THE COLD ROOM / DO YOU HAVE A RELIABLE ENGINNER HOW MANY YEAR WARRANTY IS THE PRICE NEGOTIABLE AND WHERE ARE YOU BASED IF I BUY IT CAN I START USING IT IMMEDATELY OR I NEED TO SERVICE IT IF YES HOW LONG WILL THE SERVICING TAKE
Is it still available for sale?
There is a cold room for sale in Lokoja kogi state with adequate papers.call 08104488146
GENTS,
PLEASE I AM INTERESTED IN BUILDING COLD ROOM and even getting yours if for say. lets talk
Did you have Any Branches in Nigeria?
Hello, pls can you direct me where i can get already made New or Fearly used mini cold room for cold room business
Sir I’m an engineer if u need any size, I will do it for u
post your contact details so we can reach you on it.
I am interested in getting a cold room from your construction, please call me on 08050292728
Am interested in a cold
room in kogi state
…i need a link of an engineer..
My contact 07035777218
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Please I need this urgently
Please I need starter pack for Cold business based on the following;
Introduction of the cold room
viability of cold room
cost outlay
assets require
Pls share info on setting up a Cold Storage and supermarket. I’m interested to set up one in Malaysia