Managing associate at Konfidants, Michael Kottoh has expressed the affect of the latest income mobilization train by the Ghana Income Authority (GRA) on larger supermarkets within the nation.
Mr. Kottoh disclosed that the GRA’s latest income drive revealed an fascinating development the place conventional retail is starting to get better and reclaim the market share the most important supermarkets had taken away from the sector some years again.
Talking throughout the third discussion board of this 12 months’s Citi Enterprise Competition on Citi TV, on the subject ‘The Altering Face of the Ghanaian Retail Market,’ Mr. Kottoh mentioned the normal retail sector is taking a constructive flip on account of the development.
“Regardless that the most important supermarkets and on-line [platforms] are taking off, they don’t seem to be essentially adversely impacting the normal retail market, it’s so resilient. Conventional retail is starting to make the most of on-line to increase its market attain is starting to get wider once more.”
“We’ve additionally seen conventional retail starting to get better a number of the market shares that they have been starting to lose to the large supermarkets and the most important driver of this development is the latest aggressive drive by the GRA to tax the most important supermarkets so numerous price-sensitive consumers are starting to return to the normal retailers as a result of that’s principally a low and nil taxed retail section and that’s reinforcing the resilience of conventional retailers.”
In regards to the Citi Enterprise Competition
The annual Citi Enterprise Competition is a month-long initiative marked with on-air and outside occasions within the month of June to equip Ghanaian companies with methods to develop and scale up whereas assembly rising commerce and commerce traits.
This 12 months, it’s themed typically across the Made it Ghana Agenda.
There are dwell radio on-air collection at 9:05am each Monday to Thursday on the Citi Breakfast Present on Citi FM. On Fridays nonetheless, it airs at 7:10am.
Apart from the on-air collection, there will probably be weekly boards on Citi TV each Tuesday to carry discussions on the theme for the week in addition to particular TV characteristic tales geared toward showcasing indigenous Ghanaian companies.
The Citi Enterprise Competition 2023 is powered by Citi TV and Citi FM in partnership with Absa Financial institution and is proudly sponsored by MTN MOMO, MTN Enterprise, and Zeepay with help from GIRSAL.