Mr. Nanda from Depok, West Java
The culture of drinking coffee among young people is one of the reasons why there are more and more coffee shops in Indonesia, not only in cities but also in rural areas. Mr. Nanda is one of the local entrepreneurs who produces syrup for the needs of coffee shop owners.
Mr. Nanda started his business by producing yogurt mixed with syrup of various flavors. His business started in one of his mother-in-law’s boarding houses. He takes care of all the little things that support sales in this space plot.
When Mr. Nanda wanted to increase his business by trying to produce syrup, he was cheated by the person he hired to look after his business. The syrup produced is the essential ingredient for making coffee, milk, tea, and even mocktails.
He never gives up and continues to try to increase sales to various markets. However, after his business had been running for several months, Mr. Nanda’s business failed again. Mr. Nanda had to work at a company, so he couldn’t focus on managing his business, and his hired employees couldn’t help him optimally. Meanwhile, Mr. Nanda always makes time to look for raw materials for his business needs after work.
With strong determination, Mr. Nanda tried to find new employees even though he had to teach from scratch and sell around the Depok area to get more customers.
Using the Semeru syrup flag, the 37-year-old man supplied syrup to 20-30 coffee shops. Currently, he has succeeded in providing syrup as a supporting ingredient for coffee to thousands of coffee shops throughout Indonesia.
The progress of Mr. Nanda”s syrup business must be connected to the involvement of KSP Sahabat Mitra Sejati (KSP SMS) in helping provide working capital loans. Starting from being introduced by a friend who was already a member and receiving a working capital loan from KSP SMS in 2022, Mr. Nanda also applied for a working capital loan to buy a syrup and coffee-making machine.
Because we already have various types of coffee and syrup, now Semeru products can be purchased online by anyone through the marketplace under the name Semeru Syrup shop.
