Dekunle Okunrinboye, a renowned entrepreneur and Chairman of DK Industries Group has shared his entrepreneural journey from as young as age five.
According to the businessman, “Entrepreneurship has been in engraved in My DNA since inception, I believe I was born to do business.
“I recall when we were much younger, I was about five years old, my older siblings and I will go pluck mangoes and Cherry from the fruit trees we had in my dads’ school and sell for a fee. I handled the marketing to visitors who came to visit my dad.
“My immediate elder brother handled the plucking and my sisters handle the sales and profit sharing amongst us all. This was a thing of joy for my parents, seeing us cultivate the act of business for profit. Subsequently, the passion for entrepreneurship grew stronger when I went on to the boarding house in my Junior Secondary school. I sold wrist watches to my fellow students, which they bought”.
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Okunriboye also added that he learnt the art of business from his father.
“Growing up also during the holidays, we always visited my father’s cocoa warehouse and sometimes I sit with him during his business dealings. I loved how he handled business and how committed he was to all the businesses he had.
“His ability to combine schedules and manage his time was top notch. Majority of my knowledge about business is as a result of the things I saw him do growing up”.
On how he stays ahead of competition in his sector, he said: “I make a thing to research my competitors, know their updated prices, go through their other updates, see what they are doing differently and also see the new methods they have adopted to see if it’s better than ours”.
The DK Industries group was established as a haulage business in 2015, following an exit from his previous company Team of Dedicated Achievers LTD. (TODA) an entertainment, lifestyle and hospitality company where he rose to the highest position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), before bowing out to create his own company.
In 2019, DK Industries approached OK Foods Ltd. to help them in distributing their goods across the Northern part of Nigeria, a proposal that was approved.
DK Industries has since then evolved into other business segments, like commodities, Real Estate, Entertainment, Oil & Gas and basic investments.
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