FOOD SUPPLY & DISTRIBUTION
Eminent Essentials is a food supply & distribution business that aims to reduce hunger in Nigeria by targeting 2 sets of people:
i. Individuals in the rural communities whose children are out of school because they cannot pay their fees and are struggling to put food on the table.
ii. The career people with busy schedules in different corporate organisations, who hardly have the time to eat healthy and/or stock up their homes with foodstuffs.
Eminent Essentials is providing a solution that will ensure food availability at smaller packages and at a very affordable price to individuals in the rural communities. This will alleviate poverty, create jobs and see their children back to school.
Our team is made up of 45 years combined experience, versed in Agriculture, software development, business administration, sales & marketing.
THE PROBLEM
In Nigeria, one in every five people, that is over 200 Million people do not have enough food, these number is on the rise everyday. Not only is food accessibility a problem, but prices of the available foods have been inflated causing food affordability to be a problem to not just the vulnerable and low-income earners, but for everybody.
THE PEOPLE MOST AFFECTED BY THIS PROBLEM
Children are at high risk of hunger because they are dependent on adults for their care and their young bodies are more vulnerable to the problems, some of them are even homeless, which makes it more difficult for them. Members of the community, women, the youths and men who have no jobs. These are the people Eminent Essentials is providing this solution for, which makes up over 70% of the Nigerian populace.
FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THIS PROBLEM
1. Land degradation, mismanagement of available water resources,
2. Inadequate food processing technologies,
3. Poor economic policies to support food production,
4. The low economic and social status of women, who constitute the majority of food producers.
5. Inflation & high cost of foodstuffs
6. Poverty & lack of jobs
OUR SOLUTION
Eminent Essentials is a food supply & distribution business that provides both online and offline marketplace for farmers and consumers in rural, urban and suburban areas. We ensure food availability, accessibility and affordability, by eliminating the middlemen who inflate food prices unnecessarily. We also plan to acquire farm space for our Eminent Essential Farms to cultivate food crops, this will ensure that people get foodstuffs at a very affordable cost.
Also through our online platform, consumers can easily get access to foodstuffs without leaving their localities, and orders will be delivered to their doorsteps in a seamless and efficient process.
Eminent Essentials ensures that food supply & distribution chain is continuous, farmers income is not eroded, consumers get food at good prices, food is hygienically handled and efficiently supplied, people with low or impaired income will still have access to food with an option to pay instalmentally.
Our Solution provides the following:
- Affordability to clean, healthy and well packaged foods
- A better immuned system for all our customers, as our foods are healthy as recommended by Food nutritionists and WHO – this helps fight diseases.
- Access to quality, nutritious food, which is fundamental to human existence
- The curb of the spread of COVID-19
- Less Food wastage on the farms as farm produce will always be in demand.
- Timely food movement to end users.
- Reduced Food prices in the open market.
- Elimination of middle men, which is the reason for hikes of food prices
- Regular social responsibility to the vulnerable persons, and the less privileged.
- Zero hunger
- Poverty alleviation
- Creation of jobs among the youth
TARGET POPULATION
- High Income earners
- Medium income earners
- Food outlets comprising of : B2B
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- Cafes
- Food Vendors
These group of people hardly have the time to go to the market, they can easily make their order list on our online platform and take the option of paying instalmentally.
- Low income earners
- Neigbourhood/Communities Stores
- Corporate social responsibility to the vulnerables:
- Women
- Children
- Elderly
- Homeless
- Refugees
- Children in the streets
- Persons living with disabilities
- Orphanages
- Improve supply chain practices to reduce food loss, scale new business models for producer-market connections, and create low-carbon cold chains
Our solution to ensure a continuous food supply & distribution chain through our Eminent Essentials Farms and the online & offline marketplace will sustain food systems in our communities, Nigeria, Africa and globally. This aligns with the with the Solve Challenge
- Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model
- A new business model or process
Our Competitive Advantage
1. Variety of food items
2. 50% below the competitive price
3. Passion on idea
4. Quality and healthy well packaged foods
5. Product know how through our Eminent Essentials Farm space
6. Risk management: we identify control measures
7. Reputation
8. Innovation : We organize a monthly free distribution of foods in the rural communities.
9. Consumer satisfaction consistently driven by customer reviews.
10. Business connections
11. Location: We are not static, we are physically mobile and online, we reach our customers wherever they are.
12. Corporate Social Responsibility through our monthly free distribution of packaged processed & unprocessed foods to people in the communities.
The creation of our online marketplace is completely digital, via a downloadable APP which can be accessed by our customers on their phones. This will support and ease the movement of foods from the farms to the market, and will provide an uninterrupted access to the farmers/foodstuffs directly as freshly as it is produced which can be channeled to the online subscribers in a seamless process.
All partners/stakeholders involved in our food supply/distribution chain will be on the platform with the view of getting foodstuffs at a very affordable price.
This digital solution will also provide an avenue where consumers can get the option of paying for foodstuffs instalmentally and encourage a continuous food supply/distribution channel.
Our digital solution will be provided in two ways, an online foodstore link that will direct consumers to place order online.
A downloadable APP which consumers can subscribe and install on their phones to have easy access to all of our services with all partners/stakeholders on the APP.
Example of our foodstore is https://essentialfoods.company...
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Crowdsourced Service / Social Networks
- Software and Mobile Applications
Food plays an important role in the promotion of health and the prevention of disease by helping to build the immune system. Our solution aims to ensure more healthy people in the society and through acquiring our own farmlands, there will be creation of jobs in the farms and/or engaging dispatchers and aggregators for food supply from our farms or the farmers and for food deliveries to the customers.
This will have a rippling effect to alleviating poverty, see the children off the streets and back to schools and create a general well being to individuals in the urban and rural areas.
Yes. Eminent Essentials has a business model that supports decent work for the youths, which will reduce social vices and increase economic growth. Food security will be achievable in an average household and this is a plus for economic growth.
- Women & Girls
- Elderly
- Rural
- Urban
- Poor
- Low-Income
- Middle-Income
- 1. No Poverty
- 2. Zero Hunger
- 3. Good Health and Well-Being
- 4. Quality Education
- 6. Clean Water and Sanitation
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 13. Climate Action
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- United Kingdom
Currently serving 50 people
In the next 1 year will serve 750 people
In the next 5 years will serve over 5000 people
Our Goals have been classified into the following :
In 1 year:
1. Jobs creation on our farms
2. Children are off the streets and back to schools
3. Eliminate middlemen interference
4. A workable food supply & distribution chain
5. More healthy foods accessibility
6. Food affordability
In 5 Years:
1. Poverty alleviation
2. A secured food supply & distribution system
3. Community based food producers
4. Improved life expectancy rate
5. Improved economic growth
6. Eminent Essential Food outlets in Nigeria, Ghana and the UK.
7. Sustainable communities in Nigeria & Ghana
1 Year:
1. Climate change
2. Availability of fresh water
3. Funds to scale the business
4. Professional trainings
5. Incidence of rural conflicts
6. Farm lands space
7. Agricultural adaptation
5 Years
1. Border restrictions
2. Food Exportation policies
3. Government Policies
4. Registrations & Licenses
5. Individuals’ behavioural pattern towards agriculture
1. Seek funding opportunities
2. Network with other entrepreneurs, mentors and angel investors
3. Get legal authorizations
4. Deliberate government policies to encourage indigenous food producers through farming.
5. An all round the year food cropping through irrigation in every part of the country to meet up with food supply & distribution
6. Networking with farmers in all geo-political zones.
7. Agricultural empowerment and awareness programmes
- For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
TEAM MEMBERS
We have a 6 member team on this project and 5 are working full time. Only 1 member is working part time and also provides us with business advise.
Eminent Essentials has the perfect team to implement this solution with a combined experience of over 40 years in different fields of expertise comprising of Agricultural Science, Software Development, Quality Assurance, Research & Development, Business Administration & Finance, Sales & Marketing. We are the right team to ensure effective food supply and distribution, and food security in Nigeria.
Farmers
Food processing Companies
Horecas
KEY PARTNERS
- Farmers
- Food Processing Companies
- Delivery & Transport Logistics Company
- Hotel, Restaurants & Cafes
KEY ACTIVITIES
- Food processing
- Packaging & Repackaging
- Logistics
- Food Administration
- Delivery Services
- Technical support
KEY RESOURCES
- Bulk foodstuff purchase
- Farm space
- Warehouse/Rent Space
- Food Machines
- Fridge & Freezers
- Industrial Cooking materials
VALUE PROPOSITION
- Doorsteps delivery
- Food accessibility & affordability
- Money back guarantee
- Clean, healthy foods packaging
- POS payments
- Monthly social responsibility
- Food Plan subscription
- Instalmental & flexible payments
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
- After sales services
- Social media interaction
- Direct emailing
- Online customer service
CHANNELS
- Online sales
- Farmers
- Associations
- Cooperative societies
- Aggregators
- Community mini stores
- Offline sales
- Street stores
- Volunteers
- Beneficiaries
CUSTOMER SEGMENT
- High income earners
- Medium income earners
- Low income earners
- Food vendors
- Civil servants
- HORECAs
- Boarding Schools
- Neighbourhood Food Stores
- Families/Households
- Social responsibility beneficiaries
COST STRUCTURE
- Rent
- Labour
- Stock /inventory
- Administrative
- Tax
- Licenses & fees
- Revenue Streams
- Product sales
- Subscriptions
- Sponsorships
- Donations
- Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)
We are applying to this Solve challenge for the following reasons:
1. We are passionate about our idea and believe that Eminent Essentials will improve food production by our making food available, accessible and affordable beginning from the communities, which will have rippling effect to other states of Nigeria and then to Africa and the world at large to achieve global food security
2. We are seeking opportunities to network with other enterprenuers and get mentors to guide us on how to scale our business
3. We seek partners, investors and sponsors to look into our idea and/or startup business and provide both financial and moral support to scale and establish.
In general, we believe that the Solve Challenge will help us overcome some challenges and/or barriers like launching our business in other African countries and overseas as the case may be, which is one of our major goal in achieving global food security.
- Business model
- Solution technology
- Funding and revenue model
- Board members or advisors
- Legal or regulatory matters
- Marketing, media, and exposure
1. Passionate drive on achieving global food security
2. Business, Moral support & guidance
3. Mutual benefits
4. Trust
5. Open-mindedness
6. Compatibility
7. Reliability
8. Fiscal Responsibility
9. Comfortable with taking risks.
It would be a great honour to partner with a few of Solve team members who are versed in Sustainable Food systems.
We would also like to partner with some Food processing companies & tech companies.
We are absolutely qualified for the Andan Prize, because with our idea on food solutions, we will be able to penetrate any system to get our food tech solutions to work, particularly to impact to the refugees and other classes of people.
We totally qualify for this prize because is another passionate area Eminent Essentials operate. We come across women everyday in our business and we completely relate with the challenges women face, especially as most of them are becoming 'breadwinners'. This prize will help us in advancing our solution in various communities in Nigeria and in Africa.
At Eminent Essentials, we serve God and humanity, which is one major drive that initiated this food supply/distribution business. We are compassionate with the state of humanity and seek ways to improve living conditions. The AI for Humanity Prize will be a great priviledge to us and will help us in carrying out our solution as we go about making life better for the average human being through the provision of our affordable foods.
