The training programme organised for widows from Hope for Life Initiative by the Nigerian Bottling Company began with introduction by the facilitator, Mr Babatunde Ilansanmi. The widows are a recently selected group of women to be empowered by the Nigerian Bottling Company. Mr Ilansanmi began by giving a brief history of his journey with Nigerian Bottling Company. How his mother and aunt were both selling products from the company, little did he know that he would end up working with Nigerian Bottling Company? He expressed his excitement at facilitating the training session. He said this year made it one hundred and thirty years that coca cola has been in existence. He spoke at length on how it was first produced in 1886 by Dr. John Pemberton, a pharmacist. Then when it first arrived in Nigeria in 1951 and its spread across all states of the federation today.
After the introduction, he asked the widows questions on their thoughts at selling products from Nigerian Bottling Company and expected challenges. The widows then proceeded on a tea break where they had time to get acquitted before the training proper began.
On return, Mr Ilansanmi asked everyone their expectations, and specifics on kind of challenges they might encounter.
The general questions from the widows were
- How to start selling
- How to handle customers, sales benefits from NBC
- How coca cola is produced and how they should sell in crates and double their sales.
- How to handle their bottles
- How to progress in sales
- How to sell and make profits without a loss
- How to gain In-depth knowledge of the business
- How to buy products from NBC
- New product knowledge and competition
He further talked about other products of Nigerian Bottling Company, expiry dates on products and the production process.
The training came to an end with the reiteration to empower the widows with products from the company and that Nigerian Bottling Company on
its part would monitor their sales and ensure productivity.
The training session ended with a photo session.
