In the early days, KwaZulu-Natal baker Njabulo Sithole had minimal income and says there was a time when he could not even buy bread for his family.
KwaZulu-Natal baker Njabulo Sithole has gone from baking cakes in his kitchen to making 12,000 “snowballs” a week for 200 Pick n Pay supermarkets.
The 43-year-old father of two runs his bakery, Bakers Creationz, near the Inanda Dam, north of Durban.which recognises suppliers for theirAfter quitting his job as a marketing manager in 2012 to pursue his passion for baking, Sithole struggled to get his business off the ground.2014 I gave up my dream of starting in a business facility and started trading from my home kitchen, convinced my business plan would work out in the end.
Sithole initially supplied schools with cakes, muffins and cupcakes, paying schoolchildren commission for selling them. “Orders started pouring in and I was able to move to a larger kitchen later that year. I started saving the money I was making to buy equipment from other bakeries which were closing down.”“This space has expanded with the business and we now occupy 300m².”
In the early days, Sithole had minimal income and said there was a time when he could not even buy bread for his family. “I realised I needed to keep going and develop products for which there was a market. I started small-scale but my vision was always to supply major retailers.”In 2016 he joined the Pick n Pay Boost Your Biz programme and not only won, but also gained access to the retail giant.
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