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SlimTrader firm charts growth road-map for hospitality industry in Nigeria

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SlimTrader Incorporated, a Sub-Saharan Africa’s foremost provider for ready–to-use software as a service provider for businesses has urged hotelier to focus on building their brands for customer loyalty which would subsequently result in profitability.

The company gave this advice during a growth strategy summit for hoteliers.

According to Femi Akinde, founder of the company, he said he believes in brand building as part of marketing strategy and pointed that customers would buy in to services if they are offered superior service

The forum was principally organised to help empower those in the hospitality industry in Nigeria position their businesses for greater sales.

To Akinde, “SlimTrader was created solely to help provide the platform that will enable hoteliers in Nigeria adopt the right strategies for growth and ensuring cost effectiveness in their operations”.

He said the firm’s solution platform called MoBiashara for business enhancement was designed for hotels in this region to assist them manage their customers seamlessly. “We expect that once they take that offer, it will become solution that all the hotels in this region will adopt”, Akinde said.

“We believe that the right technologies can help organisations drive growth, improve performance, create a better customer experience and drive increased profitability. We work hard to providing the best of these technologies to our business partners at unbeatable value.

Speaking further about the hospitality industry in Nigeria, Akinde observed that there are lots of independent hotel owners in the country and promised that SlimTrader is out with its

MoBiashara platform solution to help these independent hotel owners operate at international standard.

In his remarks on partnership with SlimTrader’s solution, Divisional CEO, Switching and Processing at Interswitch, Akeem Lawal said: “In our position as Africa’s leading integrated payment and transaction processing company, we are always seeking new ways to help improve business efficiency with our funds monitoring, payments collection and fraud management solutions. This partnership with SlimTrader is one of the ways we are bringing our company vision to life”.

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