Promil on the shelves in shops are now being sold at R26

The Seychelles Marketing Board (SMB) has announced that the price for Promil has been reduced to R26 per tin.

Promil imported by SMB was previously being sold at R35 and the company has said that the new price is the result of negotiation it has had with the manufacturers.

A press release from SMB explains that Promil was being sold at R35 because the company had to buy it from the domestic market in South Africa to satisfy demand on the local market, as the product was not available.

"Normally it would have been manufactured on order by the producer with export prices negotiated by us. As it was a one off shipment, under the circumstances the product reached the market at the price of R35 per tin," the press release explains.

It says that though SMB retails Nestle infant formula like NAN and Lactogen at the SMB Supermarket and chain of Franchise shops, it had to import Promil   to cater to customer demand and "our commitment to SMB’s mission."

" SMB will move out of these imports once the products are back on the shelves. The Government is assisting Fock Heng Health Care (Pty) Ltd to restart the importation of this infant formula product," the press release adds.

It says that there had been many cases in the 20-year-old history of SMB where the organisation has responded to complaints and imported certain categories of goods required by customers when they were not available at all.

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