End-Of-Year Festivities:Business Operators Make Evaluation

The 2018 festive season has come and gone and many businessmen in Yaounde would spend the first week of 2019, counting the gains and losses they made during the period. On Wednesday January 2, one could find many businessmen and petit traders at the Mfoundi Market in Yaounde either just chatting with neighbours or going through sales records. The apparently less organised, were either dozing off or emptying beer bottles in obvious finalisation of the boozing they engaged in as they celebrated the New Yearon January 1.

The 2018 festive season has come and gone and many businessmen in Yaounde would spend the first week of 2019, counting the gains and losses they made during the period. On Wednesday January2, one could find many businessmen and petit traders at the Mfoundi Market in Yaounde either just chatting with neighbours or going through sales records. The apparently less organised, were either dozing off or emptying beer bottles in obvious finalisation of the boozing they engaged in as they celebrated the New Year on January 1.“What is certain is that most of us made more money during the month of December than we did in the other months of the year, even if sales might not have been as great as they were during the same period last year or in 2017,” Ngono Christelle said as she rearranged her smoked fish to make it look more appealing to customers. “I can’t give you the exact figures of the profits I made in December thanks to festivities carried out during this period, but I was able to put smileson my children’s faces,” she said.The food market was out right void of its usual hustle and bustle. So too was theMvog-Atangana Mballa and Mvog-Mbi food markets. Bilingue Eric Marius who runs a Cold Store in the Mvog-Mbi market equally attested that he made more money during the festive period. “Even people who hardly afford fish or meat for the family everyday...