{"id":72514,"date":"2018-12-26T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T07:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72514"},"modified":"2018-12-26T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T07:43:24","slug":"pharmaceutical-firms-top-new-market-entrant-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/12\/26\/pharmaceutical-firms-top-new-market-entrant-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmaceutical firms top new market entrant list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Chimwemwe Mangazi: <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72516\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blantyre-market-sme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blantyre-market-sme-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blantyre-market-sme-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blantyre-market-sme-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blantyre-market-sme.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IDEAL FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH\u2014SMEs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over 100 new pharmaceutical firms are reported to have been established across the country in 2018, topping the list of new businesses establishments.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a recent study conducted by the National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Nasme).<\/p>\n<p>Other sectors, with more new entrants according to the study, include agro-processing, grocery retail and wholesale shops, horticulture, general farming, design and tailoring, passenger transportation services, and accommodation service provision.<\/p>\n<p>Nasme National Coordinator, William Mwale, attributed the good performance of the pharmaceutical firms to the enthusiasm of budding entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMore people with a medical background are venturing into business and that is what we have been advocating for\u201d<\/em> Mwale said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the entrepreneurs in food business, Stephen Njolomole, said entrepreneurship is way to go.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cEntrepreneurs play a central role in the economy by establishing firms, which in turn create markets and organisations,\u201d<\/em> Njolomole said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chimwemwe Mangazi: Over 100 new pharmaceutical firms are reported to have been established across the country in 2018, topping the list of new businesses establishments. This is according to a recent study conducted by the National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Nasme). Other sectors, with more new entrants according to the study, include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72517,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72514\/revisions\/72517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}