Comments on: BN Exclusive: Spanish Retailer MANGO opening stores in Nigeria

By: bay

bay — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:46:20 +0000

they have the best pants @ affordable prices. if the Govt is making things hard for local retailers then why should they allow foreign company to in? this people will put a lot of some retailers out of business. Trust me they do crazy sales i buy my pants from mango on sale for $9.99-$19.00. just like they banned the importation of chicken, now KFC is in town using it’s american chicken. this is not nice for small business owners.

By: adagurl

adagurl — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:42:42 +0000

@ fruity, correction. Abidjan has a H&M. I’m sure many other W African countries with less wahala already have such stores….

Interesting on the embargo on foreign clothes. Yup, FDI would fall outside those limits…

What Naija needs maybe are more experienced designers who can/see the need for such basics and can specialize in that. That would really bring about $$

By: geegee

geegee — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:41:27 +0000

Wow….. Mango store finally, yipee!!! They have good clothes and very reasonable prices compared to the boutiques i go to in abj. They would want to cut off your head. Good clothing, reasonable prices, works for me. : D

By: G

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:57:46 +0000

You are so right as per “last season fashion”. I went there, bought a couple of tops and a bangle which came to N13800. On mangoshop.com, there were all on sales and were going for about £25 in total.

By: marian o

marian o — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:12:40 +0000

lepa full for 9ja na…

By: fruity

fruity — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:40:42 +0000

It is the first franchise of its kind in West Africa…it is as good as having a Mango store in Barcelona here in Nigeria, except, of course the sales attendants will not be speaking Spanish

By: fruity

fruity — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:28:45 +0000

Mango opens soon
right sizes
Right Prizes
up to date seasons on racks
fantastic shopping experience

By: bee girl

bee girl — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:57:13 +0000

basically, wherever in europe i find myself, i go for mango and zara, great quality, great price. but on the otherhand, i am dead sure we will only get last seasons fashion in their store here,just like their store in SA. even at that, we will have to pay more for these cloths that normally would be found in their OUTLETS( where cloths of previous seasons are sold)

By: Support local design

Support local design — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:05:15 +0000

So you are saying that the govt has a program that favours foreign businesses and puts local entrepreneurs at a disadvantage. Why doesnt this surprise me, LMAO these are the kind of retarded policies that the Nigerian government is famous for.
I would understand if they made a pledge to bring some of their manufacturing into naij but why should they have to do that when they can exploit people then take all the money back to Spain instead.
Anyway, I trust our corrupt officials, they will forget about Foreign direct mago-mago when they come to collect their monthly “offering”.

By: Bigtoks

Bigtoks — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:56:15 +0000

A friend of mine introduced me to http://www.uk2meonline.com
They help you buy from any store in the UK and deliver to you in Nigeria
My friend lives in Abuja and she got hers within 2 weeks.
They are quite nice and cheap
They charge you just 10% of UK advsertised price

By: Bigtoks

Bigtoks — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:43:42 +0000

Hmm sounds interesting.
At the moment, clothings and shoes are considered contrabands by the Nigerian Customs. Except they make them in Aba. They will face a lot of challenges and like most business if they want to thrive. They will need to bribe to get what they want.

By: nigerianmodelsonline

nigerianmodelsonline — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:00:36 +0000

it’s surprisingly true. we pay a lot more for designer clothes here than the do abroad. and they call us a “poor third-world country…”

By: sweethix!

sweethix! — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:29:23 +0000

uhhhhhhh…….. mango is just there jo..

By: flakes

flakes — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:46:46 +0000

Kay girl, i feel you. Normal Primark tank top – 1.50GBP comes to naija in Alade market for N1,500! Crazy innit. So lets wait and see what Mango dem want to do. Although i would take learning from Mother Care here in Lagos – Limited stock, outdated styles and the most rediculous prices ever (just cos they “exclusively” carry the brand). If Mango is really doing this as an FDI, them maybe they would ship from factories in Asia directly to Naij and they may get import duty concessions which may eventually tell on the price. If not it would be a case of Mango ko, Woolworths (remeber them) ni.

By: nikky

nikky — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:36:44 +0000

wait till they come and start selling
when virgin came to naija the plan was to sell return ticket for 45k what happened our naija people told them to increase the price. and since the objective of any bizz is profit maximisation they did and we still buy

By: Biola

Biola — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:34:12 +0000

Would be nice ……

By: me.

me. — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:41:47 +0000

did someone get the mango franchise or mango itself is comin gan gan. don’t know if Im makn sense where can i go to for info on franchising et al?

By: Just saying

Just saying — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:52:42 +0000

not true at all… im 6ft tall and tend to buy trousers from mango cos they are very long

By: Bemine

Bemine — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:45:08 +0000

Not true…I’m quite petite but curvy and I’ve never been able to buy trousers from Mango because they are always too long. In terms of the size, I believe they cater for size 8-18…

By: Bemine

Bemine — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:36:54 +0000

The ban on importation doesn’t have to be lifted for Mango to be able to do this…this is Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) which the government actively encourages