yadisplastics.co.zw currently returns a hosting suspension notice. Every buyer who searches for Yadis Plastics finds nothing — while the factory in Willowvale keeps producing. This proposal presents a complete, already-built seven-page website in your own colours: what it changes, the value it creates, and the investment required.
As at the date of this proposal, yadisplastics.co.zw returns “This Account has been suspended.” It is not a slow site or an ugly site — it is no site. The only live presence is a Facebook page with 37 followers, where the entire product range sits inside a single JPEG poster.
Yadis Plastics manufactures twelve lines of plain and printed flexible packaging from the IDBZ Complex in Willowvale, and sells over the counter in Avondale. That is a real, substantial manufacturing business — but a buyer at a milling company, a pharmacy group or a construction firm who searches for a packaging supplier in Harare today will not find you, and will find a competitor instead.
We have designed and rebuilt the full website — all seven pages — drawing on the design language of the world’s leading packaging manufacturers (Amcor, ProAmpac, Berry, Constantia Flexibles): a confident industrial hero, market-segment navigation, a proper product architecture, capability and sustainability messaging, and a quote path on every single screen.
Nothing about the brand changes. The Yadis Plastics mark is untouched and the existing palette — navy and gold — is applied exactly as-is, only more consistently and more confidently than a Facebook cover photo ever allowed.
What changes is everything around it: structure, typography, messaging, mobile experience, speed and the route from “who makes packaging in Harare?” to a costable enquiry in your inbox.
This is not a mock-up. It is the actual rebuilt home page, embedded below. Scroll inside the frame, hover the cards, and switch between desktop, tablet and mobile views.
The full redesign covers all seven pages — Home, Products, Printed Packaging, Industries, Sustainability, About and Contact. Two things are placeholders and are swapped for your own files before go-live: your original logo artwork (the build uses a faithful vector reproduction of the Yadis mark) and photography of your actual products, which currently sits as illustrated artwork in the reserved image areas.
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All seven pages, fully navigable — best experienced full-screen, and on your phone.
A side-by-side view of every meaningful decision, and the reasoning behind it.
| Area | Current presence | Proposed redesign |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | ✕yadisplastics.co.zw returns a hosting suspension page. Anyone who types the address on your poster, your bags or your Facebook page hits a dead end. | ✓A live, hand-built site with SSL, deployed on a fast global network. Static pages with nothing to expire, no plugins to break and no licence to lapse. |
| First impression | ✕A Facebook page with 37 followers whose most prominent post is a March 2023 promotion, and a profile that reads as a small trader rather than a manufacturer. | ✓A full-height industrial hero that says exactly what you are in six words — “Flexible packaging, made in Harare” — backed by a credentials row: 12 product lines, 2 locations, in-house printing, made in Zimbabwe. |
| Product information | ✕The entire range lives inside one JPEG collage. It cannot be searched, linked to, quoted from, or read on a phone without pinching and zooming. | ✓All twelve lines from your own product poster written up properly — each with its own section, anchor link, specification notes and a “Quote this line” button. A products page a buyer can actually send to a colleague. |
| Being found | ✕Nothing for a search engine to index. Searches for “plastic packaging Harare” or “bin liners Zimbabwe” return your competitors. | ✓Per-page titles and descriptions, semantic HTML, and dedicated product and industry pages built around the phrases buyers actually type — carrier bags, black sheeting, chemist bags, mealie-meal packaging, Harare. |
| Getting an enquiry | ✕A phone number in a Facebook caption. The buyer has to work out what to ask and you have to work out what they need — usually over several calls. | ✓A structured quote form that asks the four questions you need answered (product, contents, plain or printed, quantity), plus click-to-call, email and WhatsApp fixed to every screen. |
| Buyer segmentation | ✕One undifferentiated message to households, millers, builders and pharmacies alike. | ✓Eight industry sections — milling & grain, agriculture & seed, retail, pharmacy, food & beverage, ice & cold chain, construction, hospitality & facilities — each written to the concern that sector actually has. |
| Printed packaging | ✕Mentioned in passing as “plain and printed”. Your highest-value, stickiest service is a footnote. | ✓A dedicated Printed Packaging page that sells the commercial case, sets out the four-step process from artwork to delivery, and lists everything you can print on. |
| Two locations | ✕The Willowvale factory and the Avondale shop are mentioned in old posts, so most people know about one and not the other. | ✓Both surfaced in the top bar, the About page, the Contact page and the footer — with an ordering table that tells each type of buyer which one to go to. |
| Sustainability | ✕“#recycleplasticdonttrashit” appears as a hashtag on a handful of posts and nowhere else. | ✓A proper position page — four practical habits, an honest paragraph about litter being a handling problem — plus an offer to print a recycling message on customers’ packaging at no extra cost. |
| Mobile & speed | ✕Facebook only, which means the app, the ads and a login prompt between your customer and your product list. | ✓Designed mobile-first: full-screen menu, thumb-sized targets, a WhatsApp button always in reach. No frameworks, no trackers, system fonts — it loads in about a second on Zimbabwean mobile data. |
A website is not a brochure expense for a manufacturer. It is the front door of the sales channel you do not currently have. Here is where the return comes from.
A procurement officer looking for 50,000 printed carrier bags searches before they call anybody. Right now that search cannot end at Yadis, because there is nothing to land on.
Product, contents, plain or printed, quantity. Four answers turn a vague “how much for bags?” into an enquiry you can cost without a single follow-up call.
Printing is the difference between selling a commodity bag and holding an account. The redesign gives it a full page, a process and a call to action instead of two words in a description.
Millers, retail chains, hospitals and NGOs need suppliers that look like companies: a real address, a real email domain, a product list and a paper trail.
The Willowvale factory and the Avondale shop serve completely different buyers. The redesign routes each of them to the right door instead of leaving them to guess.
Static, hand-built pages have no plugin licences, no database, no theme to update and nothing that can be suspended for a missed renewal on a control panel nobody logs into.
One once-off fee for the complete redesign, with an optional monthly retainer to keep the site fast, secure and current.
Once-off project fee
50% deposit (US$175) on commencement, balance on go-live. The site is already built — go-live in under two weeks of approval. Professional photography of your product range and factory can be arranged and is quoted separately.
The site stays fast, current and secure — without occupying your staff
The build fee is US$350 with or without the retainer. Month-to-month — begin at go-live or later, cancel any time on one month’s notice. Fees exclusive of any applicable taxes.
Sign-off on this proposal and chosen option; deposit invoice issued.
One review round: final wording, product details, your original logo file and any product photography you wish to include.
Domain recovered and pointed, SSL installed, quote form wired, site deployed with all old URLs redirected.
Staff walkthrough, a plain-English editing guide, and the 30-day support window begins.
Approve the proposal and the new Yadis Plastics website can be live in under two weeks.