Accra, Dec. 3, -
Newmont Golden Ridge Limited has emerged the best company in the sixteenth
edition of the Ghana Club 100 awards organised by the Ghana Investment
Promotion Centre (GIPC) in Accra.
MTN Ghana was the second in the
rankings followed by Ghana Oil Company Limited, Goldfield Ghana Limited and
Vivo Energy.
UniBank retained the sixth
position in the rankings, whiles Multi Pro Ghana Limited came seventh, followed
by Nordea Capital as eighth position, Justmoh Limited came ninth, while Total
Petroleum Ghana clinched the 10th position.
Other companies followed to the
hundredth position including Ecobank Bank, Barclays Bank, Fan Milk GHANA
Limited and Fidelity Bank.
This year’s event was on the
theme: ‘‘Industrialisation: A tool for job Creation and Accelerated Economic
Development”.
Mr Yaw Osarfo Margo, the Senior
Minister President speaking at the GIPC Ghana Club 100 awards commended the
companies for excelling in their respective disciplines.
The Ghana Club 100 (GC 100) is an
annual compilation of the top 100 companies in Ghana to give due recognition to
successful enterprise building.
The GC 100 is about corporate
excellence, companies making it into the GC 100 are to serve as role models for
the private sector and provide a forum for corporate Ghana to interact with the
government at a high level.
He said government was committed
to dialogue with captains of industry in the business arena to grow the sector.
He said industrialisation was a
good measure for developed countries and as a tool for improving on the
economic growth and government had tried to bring to bear four thematic areas
of development including; microeconomic
stability, infrastructural development, accelerated industrial development and
agricultural transformation.
He said the top 100 companies in
the country have a responsibility to help government to develop the economy by
generating employment and move Ghana from low middle income country to middle
income proper and finally to a developed country.
"Once you are in this top
100, you cannot do business as usual, each of you must try and bring
improvement in your respective business operations," he added.
Mr Yoofi Grant, the Chief
Executive Officer of the GIPC, said the event was in line with the president’s
vision of moving the economy towards production.
He said GIPC believed that
channelling investments into the sector would support economic expansion and
employ a lot of the youth along the manufacturing value chain.
"The theme’s objective is in
line with government’s vision to use manufacturing through the one district,
one factory initiative as an economic development and job creation tool,"
he said.
The event this year witnessed
Special Awards for outstanding business performers in selected categories,
including Corporate Social Responsibility and the Highest Tax Paying Company.
The special awards were; Child
friendly company-MTN Ghana, Highest Tax payer-MTN Ghana, Largest companies (MTN
Ghana, Goldfield Ghana Limited and GOIL), Best new entrance company-wide Nordea
Capital and Most Profitable Company (Multi Pro Ghana Limited, Vivo Energy Ghana
Limited and Newmont Ghana Limited).
The rest are; the GC Best
companies in CSR; UniBank and Newmont Akyem Mines, Best listed companies-Fan
Milk Ghana Limited, GOIL and Starwin, Fastest Growing Companies (Nordea Capital
and Glico Gel healthcare).
GNA
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