SweepSouth, a cleaning service platform with operations in Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa, where it receives over 40,000 bookings monthly, has indefinitely halted operations in two of the countries.
This closure in its Nigerian and Kenyan branches according to the company is due to the unfavourable global macroeconomic environment which has continually hit the home services industry hard. Explaining further, the company’s statement read: “This has meant that our business cannot sustainably operate due to economic pressures being faced at the moment.”
But one would wonder that there’s more to the pause than just the unfavourable economy as the company seemed to have been thriving well before now.
Hence, rather than reiterating on the right strategies for businesses to thrive despite economic downturn, we hope for a follow-up on this developing story.
SweepSouth further emphasised that customers will keep receiving its services with bookings ending on Friday, November 25, 2022 and it will monitor the Nigerian market until a suitable time for re-entry.
This new development follows the cleaning agency’s acquisition of an online marketplace for home maintenance and improvement services such as plumbing, carpentry, electricity, air conditioning, painting and appliances, FilKhedma. And also its $11 million funding raised to expand across the pan-African region.
Aisha Pandor and Alen Ribic, a couple, founded SweepSouth to enable busy individuals maintain a clean environment by taking up the responsibility.
Customers can customise the services they receive; either leveraging SweepSouth’s cleaning products or supplying their own. A 24 hours digital notice is all that’s needed for the SweepSouth team to meet your cleaning needs.
Having raised over $15 million in funding, the company is backed by Alitheia IDF and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.
