‘Blue Mercury was formed in September. It has 2 directors , myself ,Benjamin Mahonge & Jacqueline Mahonge.We formed a company with a vision of making Tissue products for Botswana. Our brand is nice & soft, we make what we call TT Botswana. We bought the machine from Zhauns South Africa. This machine Rewinds Jumbo rolls into Tissue Products rolls. First of all we needed to understand what the market needed and we put together the product line to adhere to what the market needed or our customer requirements. In order to do this we had to put together a business plan, and a business plan is very important for every Entrepreneur you need to have a daily plan for your production, for your sales as well as procurement for your raw materials. This daily plan will need to be culminated into a weekly, Monthly as well as a Yearly plan.

A lot of research needs to be done, Risk Assessment or Management needs to be in place to make sure that you don’t find yourself I’m trouble. In terms of the choice of the business type that we selected, We looked at what are the five things that a human being does. A human being will eat, bath,go to the toilet, and also dress, with this we selected a business that meets this human need requirement.Having selected Tissue Papet products, in our product line we are making Tissue Rolls, Serviettes, kitchen Jumbo Rolls & the Core Tubes for ourselves. When we started we didn’t have a business that was making out own core tubes, then it contributed too much to our costs so what we did was make sure that we also bought a product line which makes our own core tubes.To this date from the one machine we bought from Zhauns South Africa, Now we have bought 3 more product lines & we are also planning to expand further & bring in a fifth product line which will be slitting the Jumbo Rolls because the market here is demonstrating that the Jumbo Rolls are so much Required. For the Entrepreneurs out there when we were young we were trained to get a good education good grades and a good job,but really the salary is what the employer is providing you to forget about your dreams.

So I urge all the young Entrepreneurs, Those with goals, Put plans around your goals, & execute your plans. ..Once you have done that certainly you are going to be owning your own business, & with your own Business It’s not Easy out there. The market is tough and you really need to do your Market research. Understand what your customer needs, provide a product that meets the customer needs or solves a problem in society so it’s one of the key things that an employer needs to have & Many people think that as an Entrepreneur you are your own boss you can wake up at any time.I guarantee you that you have to work a little harder and it is important that you train other people so that once they experienced they can run their own business and take over and do everything while you do the rest. With this I hope many of you will be motivated to start your own businesses. If you look at the European and Asian setup, Businesses are run at a funding level, the government has no room in running a business they create enabling environment so all I can say is let us all work I’m families and create networks that support each other and create employment for the young people out there. We have so many graduates on the street and need them to be employed as soon as they Graduate. I hope you will find this motivating for yourselves to start your own business – Blue Mercury