South African home cleaning service startup has announced it has shut down its Nigerian subsidiary, SweepSouth Nigeria, effective November 25th, 2022. The decision is coming barely 4 months after the startup was launched .
“Due to the unfavourable global macroeconomic environment, the home service industry continues to be hit hard. This has meant that our business cannot sustainably operate due to the economic pressures being faced at the moment. This has been a difficult decision to make considering our passion to service the Nigerian market. All bookings scheduled to place between now and November 25th will remain in place,” the startup announced in a statement.
The statement also stated that the startup would also be cancelling all its bookings scheduled to take place after November 25th, 2022.
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“Customers will receive full refunds for any bookings that have been paid for in advance and full refunds for Sweepcred balance in customer accounts. We encourage our customers to continue supporting our hardworking, vetted SweepStars, by booking them directly,” it added.
The company also added that it will continue to provide its services in Egypt and South Africa, even as it stated that it is still open to re-entry in Nigeria in the future.
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A Look At What The Startup Does
Founded in 2014 by Aisha Pandor and Alen Ribic, SweepSouth is a South Africa-based online platform for booking, managing and paying for home cleaning. The startup has also expanded its offering to gardening and pool cleaning, heavy lifting, fixing and maintenance, and most recently, to commercial sanitation.
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