Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is scouting for prospective business partners to operate their 14 beer retailing outlets dotted around the city’s high-density suburbs.
Over the weekend, BCC’s commercialised business unit, Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU), which trades as Ingwebu Breweries, flighted advertisements calling for potential businesspeople interested in running the outlets, to submit their bids.
The local authority said bidders should be Bulawayo residents with not less than 10 years as council ratepayers and be able to support the initial investment start-up capital of not less than $15 000.
In an interview with NewsDay on Wednesday, BMCU marketing manager Themba Sibanda said the local authority would franchise 14 outlets.