4 January 2009
Luanda — With the licensing of 4,180 large and small public and private shops and service markets, including "Nosso Super" network of supermarkets, municipal markets and Logistics and Distribution Centres (Clod), trade stood in 2008 as one of the most active sectors of the Angolan economy, alongside the oil industry, civil construction and agriculture.
Highlights were the expansion of Presild - Programme of Restructuring of the System of Logistics and Supply of Basic Goods to the Population - with the implementation across the country, of the network of supermarkets "Nosso Super", the construction of municipal markets and the expanding of rural trade.
Opened along the year 2008, such infrastructures played a role in the sector through the large number of large commercial outlets, the creation of jobs countrywide and the value of domestic production which "Nosso Super" granted to the local goods.
In 2008, the public business sector built 17 stores under the "Nosso Super" network, totalling 27, including 10 built in 2007. Those outlets have directly and indirectly provided seven million jobs, throughout the national territory.
In 2008, "Nosso Super" yielded 139 million dollars and catered for some 11 million consumers, with an average ticket of Usd 15 of purchase per day.
According to data released by Presild, at least 28 percent of goods and agro-industrial livestock marketed in "Nosso Super" outlets are locally made.
Therefore, producers, mainly farmers, received a boost in their work, by having the flowing of their production out into the major centres of consumption.
This has also the increased the production through the employment of more workforce.
It also contributed to the commerce, construction of new lines of communication and rehabilitation of others that facilitated the transportation of people and goods from more remote regions to the cities, the main centres of consumption.
On the other hand, it is very important to note that trade has also flourished in the informal market. In parallel to the formal, informal trade, though not advisable to the economy, has provided and continues to provide conditions for the survival for many families and people of different ages, children, youth and adults.
But there is also acknowledgement that informal trade involves negative effects, such as tax relaxation, production of waste and disorder in the streets, lack of security and safety to customers, among others.
For 2009, the trade programme provides for, among others, continued development of a set of infrastructures and a network of distribution of goods, opening of new markets and supermarkets under construction and two distribution centres, and consolidation of rural trade.
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