Business Head – Mozambique
Vista Um International Lda
Thank you all to take your time and read my message, I feel great pleasure and honoured to be part of Team Vista Group and greet you all.
I joined Vista Um International Lda, Mozambique in Oct 2015 as General Manager, and it was the time when most African economies started getting tough for the normal business environment because of the heavy devaluation of currencies. It was a stressful, Challenging time for Mozambique as well, as foreign donors stop providing aid to Govt and liquidity in the market becomes tight.
The business environment in 2016 has put our people to the test. Individually and collectively. Vista Um International’s broad operating footprint, a determined agenda and a focus on differentiated products, has enabled the company to deliver a resilient performance against considerable headwinds.
As Business Head, presently with the help and support of my team, we are managing three companies Vista, Cheetah and Yahoo and two segments; Paper/allied products and Building materials.
Progress has already been made to improve Vista Moz’s efficiency and reset its cost base, by proper product survey before introducing and by putting extra focus continuously on sourcing capabilities. We register our own brand VISTAPLEX in 2016 before started launching new products, so once our brand is popular we can gain extra revenue. Target is to import 50+ products under VISTAPLEX brand umbrella initially, 400+ products eventually.
In 2017 for the second year in a row Vista Moz raised the bar by delivering improvements across many key sustainability indicators i.e. Bottom line, top line, our ratio of return is one of the best. We put our best collective efforts to increase numbers by catching indent orders of quite a substantiate amount. In 2018 too, we are confident to achieve our goal and bring consistency in our performance.
Like every entrepreneur sticks to their dream, I always wanted to push my company to more prosperous milestones, idea is to set a right example by creating a great, consistent and performance oriented team & great diversified product portfolio, generate new revenue-oriented ventures in retail and manufacturing and increase our capabilities and profitability by doubling our turn over by the year 2021 under the guidance and blessings of our leadership.
