Ivan Products 0
| Legal status: | Sole Proprietorship |
| Number of Staff: | 8 |
| Entrepreneurs: | Mr Ivan Hans Kibona |
| Core Business: | Manufacturing Herbal Soap and Hair Gro. |
| Address: | P. O. Box 652 SIDO TPC Mwanjelwa Mbeya. |
| Telephone Fax: | +255 784 392 493, +255 762 526107, +255 712 759 646 |
| email: | ivankibona@yahoo.com |
| web site: | BDGbusinessclubs.bdgtpsf.com/ivanproducts |
Display of Ivan Soap
Ivan Products show case in Mbeya
People at work, proper cutting & trimming of soap
Proper Packing of products to ensure customer attraction
History
History of Business:
Mr Ivan Hans Kibona is the owner and the Managing Director of Ivan Products founded in 2004. The business emerged from the idea to add more value to rural produced products like Palm oil, Herbs and spices. To test his idea in 2004 the entrepreneur decided to fulfill this dream by starting a manufacturing business using locally available materials. He started by producing herbal soap in a small factory at Mbozi district, Mbeya Region in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. The business started with a dream but now is in full production and is among the best natural herbal soap produced in Tanzania.
Special features of IVAN PRODUCTS.
The strength of this company is in the use of local available material to make soap and beauty products.
Managed to capture the market by advocating the use of natural beauty products.
Prime location at the heart of business area in Mwanjelwa Mbeya.
The main markets for the products are Tanzania, Zambia and Congo.
Product design and quality control is of the highest importance for the success of the company.
Specialists in this field are part of the company’s staff.
Marketing of the products abroad is ensured by the entrepreneur himself by making use of her numerous international contacts and BDG Business Club website.
BDG inputs
Ivan had very limited knowledge of managing a business, but by joining the Business Diagnostic Program was a great opportunity for him to go through series of entrepreneurial trainings, the trainings which opened his eyes to understand and know better his business, he put in to practice the trainings received and is now working in a more professional manner at a high level. The BDG grant funds received fulfilled his desires to expand and improve quality of his products by purchasing materials, packaging and computer.
Enterprise Achievements
• BDG Trainings empowered him to be a professional entrepreneurial
• Manage to register the business for a sole proprietorship
• Business expansion through grants fund received
• Improved quality of package
Links with other organizations /companies
• Continuous contact with the SIDO to more improvements.
• Local trading contacts are being established. Contacts are made through the BDG Business Club website, and SIDO TCCIA.
• The entrepreneur is founding member of the Mbeya BDG Business Club, and MASE SACCOS LIMITED