By Okidi Patrick/ NORTHERN UGANDA CORRESPONDENT.
LIRA: Roofing Group has extended sensitisation campaign about their products and creating awareness about counterfeit materials by encouraging customers to buy their products which are standard in nature.
Henry Kigozi ,customer care manager- Roofing Group has shared a lot with our reporter the Journey of success that the group has made so far in the world market.
Roofing group is a Uganda based company in Kampala, and it is owned by Ugandans.
While adressing the media in an exclusive interview, on Saturday,Henry Kigozi warns customers about counterfeit materials circulating in the market at the moment.
“We are campaigning against counterfeit by educating and sensitising our people. We have so far been in Uganda for 29 years.
We shall continue standing with Ugandans because as as they grow we also grow”,Said Kigozi.
As roofing group ,they pledged giving best quality materials like; iron sheets ,iron bars,good quality plastic pipes and nails which will never bend among others materials that they are continuing to sell in the market.
Otherwise we are so happy and blessed in Lira and as l speak right now we have the lowest prices in the market.
So as roofing we exist to continue sharing so that customer know bargaining power and good quality products.
He appreciated customer from Gulu ,Arua ,Lira and other areas.
We have market in the neighbouring countries surrounding Uganda ,for example,Kenya, Tanzania Burundi ,Sudan and other countries in East Africa.
He appreciated stanbic Bank for an initiative of organising the Market day that ended on Saturday at Mayor’s garden in Lira City.
“We give you the best quality materials for your building construction.
Roofings Group, often referred to simply as Roofings, is the largest manufacturer of steel and plastic construction materials in Uganda”said Henry.
There are a lot of counterfeit in the marketwhich end up hurting your people that is because there are many manufacturers who don’t meet the standards.
Others buys iron sheets whereby the colour fade very fast,iron bars that are weak among others from other manufacturers.
The headquarters of the group and two of its manufacturing companies and factories are located at Lubowa, along the Kampala-Entebbe road and the other is located at Namanve industrial park.
According to Henry,when you pay for any products with Roofings ,they give you an account then you pay in an instalments in the bank account He concluded that the best is to give their dear customers a clear picture and bargaining power so that they buy real durable products or materials.