Oct 12/17NEWS

Smollan expands into SADC Region, strategically reinforcing their presence in Africa

International retail solutions company Smollan has announced their acquisition of leading sales and merchandising companies in Zambia, Malawi, and Botswana.

About Smollan

Founded in 1931, Smollan is a retail solutions company, delivering growth for retailers and brand owners across five continents. We cover every aspect of how brands are managed in retail environments through the creation and execution of leading solutions in field sales, retail execution, activation, information, and technology. Internationally recognized for our exceptional human platform of over 60 000 people and our sophisticated systems, we drive sales and create brilliant shopper experiences for some of the world’s most loved brands. For more information on Smollan, visit: www.smollan.com/in

About IMS/BMZ/BBB/SSMS

leading sales and retail merchandising solutions

Founded in 2005, Impact Merchandising (IMS) is a retail merchandising business that prides itself in delivering world class excellence to its principals, retailers, and consumers. The business has enjoyed strong and passionate relationships with its clients and staff ensuring growth and success for all parties. Through organic growth in the SADC region Beverage Merchandising Zambia (BMZ) emerged in 2009 entrenching the belief that great relationships and world class services were key to regional organic growth. Triple B Sales & Merchandising (BBB) emerged in 2012 as the FMCG synergized solution to the BMZ business in Zambia introducing an IT driven sales and merchandising field force supported by an activation’s business further embedding itself as a leading service provider in Zambia. The success of the organic growth allowed the business which had now set up its head office out of Lusaka, Zambia to start to offer a regional service to its clients and in so opened Strategic sales & Merchandising services (SSMS) in Malawi. As a group of companies there are offices in Gaborone, Blantyre, Lusaka and Kitwe.

Contact information

Smollan Group:

Rajan Zachariah
Head of Operations – Rest of Africa
Tel: +971522855556
Email:Rajan.Zachariah@smollan.com/in

SADC Region:

Warren Brett, General Manager
Tel: +260966166561
Email:warren.bmz@ssmsafrica.com

Smollan Group:

Monique Yaffe, Chief Marketing Officer
Tel: +27 11 458-0000
Email: monique.yaffe@smollan.com/in