Weekend Breakfast host Sara-Jayne King chats to Thokozile Mangwiro, the founder of Nilotiqa.
Top distributor Sunpac has invested in home-grown model Nilotiqa to enhance natural haircare for black ladies in SA
Nilotiqa boss Thokozile Mangwiro says she wants her domestically made merchandise to be accessible to all black ladies with natural hair
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Nilotiqa founder Thokozile Mangwiro has massive plans for her home-grown natural haircare model which caters to ladies with kinky and coily hair.Nilotiqa lately partnered with Sunpac, South Africa’s main distributor of prime worldwide magnificence and beauty manufacturers.Mangwiro says the funding deal will assist elevate Nilotiqa’s footprint throughout the native haircare class.Nilotiqa is presently obtainable at Clicks, DisChem, and Pick n Pay shops throughout the nation.Mangwiro says she wants her model to be accesible to all black ladies who’ve struggled to discover merchandise on their natural hair journey.The entrepreneur based Nilotiqa in 2016 after battling to discover nourishing merchandise created particularly for black ladies’s natural hair.She says Sunpac is a “actually well-oiled machine” that can take her model to new heights.Mangwiro has massive ambitions of getting Nilotiqa on retailer cabinets across the world.
I’ve enormous desires… This product should be accepted in all places, not simply domestically however internationally as a result of I feel it is completely value it.
Thokozile Mangwiro, Founder – Nilotiqa
It’s been six years constructing Nilotiqa and at last, I’ve the backing of Sunpac who can distribute into massive retail, after which my product will be accessible to each single black lady who was identical to me who struggled with their hair.
Thokozile Mangwiro, Founder – Nilotiqa
We each had skilled retail and the draw back of retail and I knew this was the proper accomplice.
Thokozile Mangwiro, Founder – Nilotiqa
The Sunpac crew has a lot data of how retail works, how product distribution works, and past that, how formulations work.
Thokozile Mangwiro, Founder – Nilotiqa
The journey began with quite a lot of analysis, quite a lot of testing the product till I acquired to the right moisturiser that penetrated, the right shampoo that nourished the hair.
Thokozile Mangwiro, Founder – Nilotiqa
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