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GIPC schedules 18th Ghana Club 100 for November 15

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The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), the organizers of the annual Ghana Club (GC) 100 Awards will hold the 18th edition on November 15, 2019.

This year’s event is under the distinguished patronage of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and the Chief Executive Officer of GIPC, Yofi Grant.

Yofi Grant, GIPC Boss

This  year’s award is on the theme, “Sustainable Agriculture; The Bedrock of Ghana’s Industrialization Drive”.

The objective of the theme is to highlight the importance of agriculture as a launch pad for Ghana’s industrial drive.

The theme also fits into government’s vision of moving Ghana from an import dependent economy to an export driven one, through import substitution and programs such as government’s Planting for Food & Jobs, Rearing for Food & Export, One-Village-One-Dam, (1V1D), One-District-One-Warehouse, (1D1W), as well as the One-District-One-Factory, (1D1F) policies.

The GIPC is set to use this year’s edition to promote partnerships between Ghanaian agriculturalists and their foreign counterparts as well as showcase Ghana’s industrialization potential within the agric sector and its impact on employment creation and skills development.

Companies will be ranked by the ranking consultant, Ernst and Young (EY) based on three main criteria which included size, growth and profitability with each assigned a unique weight.

18th GC100 event highlights

This year’s event will highlight companies and present awards in the following strategic sectors – Best Company in Agriculture and Agribusiness, Financial Services, Information and Communication Technology, Services, Infrastructure, Petroleum and Mining Services, Manufacturing, Tourism, Health, Education.

Other Awards to be given are GC 100 Best listed company on the Ghana Stock Exchange, Largest Company, Most Profitable Company and the Fastest Growing Company. Discretionary awards such as the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Award will be given out.

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.

This year’s title sponsor is ECOM Ghana, a leading global commodity merchant and sustainable supply chain management company. Other sponsors include B5 Plus, Olam Ghana Limited, GCNet, M&G Pharmaceuticals, Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), Newmont, Goil Company Limited, Accra Breweries, Enterprise Insurance and Kasapreko.

About GC 100

The GC100 event was first held in March 1998. The event remains one of the flagship programs of the GIPC and is aimed at introducing a system of ranking the top 100 companies in Ghana whilst encouraging and nurturing the private sector to develop and grow to compete internationally.

The objective is to develop a database of the top 100 viable companies, as an annual “who is who” on the Ghanaian corporate business calendar and through creative media vehicles and activities, promote Ghana’s corporate capacity.

It is also intended to utilize the club to gain government support and intervention to enhance the competitiveness of the Ghanaian corporate sector, and team up with club members to enhance Ghana’s private sector development through strategic push and pull linkages.

Additionally, the Awards is to develop an open information culture within the corporate sector, provide incentives for improved corporate performance by recognizing the top 100 performing companies and develop uniform criteria for evaluating corporate performance.

Source: GIPC 

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