‘Secret of our success during recession’
Olalekan Abdul-Rahaman Badmus is the Managing Director of Tuns International Limited, comprising Tuns Foods & Agro Allied, Tuns Farms and Tuns Satellite Town. Badmus, a graduate of Computer Science and Engineering, a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), also holds an MBA. In this interview with GBENGA ADERANTI, he talks about his company’s participation in the Osun Elementary School Feeding and Health Programme, now known as O-MEALS, what it takes to manage an international organization like Tuns International Ltd, why Tuns decided to diversify and the organisation’s new line of business.
AT what point did you assume duty as the MD of Tuns International Ltd?
That was 2011. At that time, we were on the verge of trying to do a lot of reorganization. It was at that time we started the low line of our business. We commenced with changing of our former business plan from when we used to raise the birds ourselves to commencing the Osun Broiler Outgrower Scheme. It was from there we metamorphosed to O-Meals. From O-Meals, we looked at experience we had during the bird flu, and we looked at how we could change our business from high risk areas to low risk areas.
First and foremost, what we did then was to stop layers birds and concentrate fully on broiler production, so that we could concentrate all our energy on broiler production rather than still doing egg.
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