SMEs

50 fastest-growing Nigerian SMEs in 2018

 

Continued from last Monday

 OmoAlata Food Services

Also known as McPeppers, the Nigerian food service brand produces and sells hygienically processed and packaged local Nigerian quick-cooking soups from farm-fresh peppers.

The founder of OmoAlata, Kasope Ladipo-Ajai has a degree in Computer Science and worked at Virgin Nigeria before starting the soup company.

Sixth Sense Decor

Sixth Sense specializes in the decoration and enhancement of living areas. The company lives by its ideal of  creating designs that reflect personality and provide a relaxing atmosphere for homes, living quarters, hotels, guest houses, offices and more.

Temitope Olagbegi started Sixth Sense in 2004 after a degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos. Temitope was also the Entrepreneur of the Year at the City People award ceremony in 2010

Design Genre

Architectural outfit, Design Genre, plans and designs spaces to be functional and aesthetically pleasing. The principals and staff have experience spanning three continents-Europe, North America and Africa.

In 2016, the company instituted an annual design competition for Nigerian universities.

Design Genre founder and Managing Partner, Anthony Okoye holds his first and second degrees in Architecture from the University of Ife and practices architecture and urban planning with firms in the USA, UK and Nigeria.

Hastom Nigeria

By 2030, the world will need at least 50% more food to feed a booming population. Experts believe there is no better time to dabble in agriculture.

Hastom teaches and supports individuals to invest in agricultural real estate – building a reputation as the largest “farmland selling and management” company. Hastom owns about 2500 acres of farmland in Oyo State and other locations in Nigeria.

Debo Thomas Olushola started Hastom to help more people take up farming. The company does this by bundling agricultural investment options into accessible plans like the Smart-Agro Investor Plan, Cashew Power Investment Plan, Hastom Seed+ and Farmland+.

Bet9ja

Bet9JA is sharing the spotlight with NaijaBET as one of the top online bookmaker companies in Nigeria.

In October 2015, the founder, Kunle Soname became the first Nigerian to own a top European football club. He secured 70% of Portuguese second division side, Clube Desportivo Feirense.

Bet9ja is also the official sponsor of the Nigeria Women’s Football League.

Systemspecs

Systemspecs is hardly an SME in the strict sense of the word, seeing as it’s possibly thrice the size of the largest SME on this list.

John Obaro started Systemspecs in 1991 to provide qualitative human capital management and financial software solutions for Africa.

Systemspecs is a pioneer in Nigeria’s SaaS vertical with products like SunSytems, the globally renowned financial management solution, HumanManager; its indigenously-developed payroll and human resource solution and its most popular (and controversial) product to date, Remita, which powers Nigeria’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) project. 

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