Right Consult wins IIA SME Excellence Award
Godwin Kofi Akuamoah (right)
receiving the award from Carlos Ahenkorah, Deputy Minister of Trade and
Industry
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Right
Consult, an electronic security firm, has won the ultimate award--The Star
Award of the Year-- at the maiden Invest In Africa (IIA) SME Excellence Awards
held at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra.
Country
Manager of Invest In Africa, Clarence Nartey, challenged SMEs to build local
businesses for global markets. He revealed his outfit will be investing heavily
in the capacity building of SMEs in the country.
According
to Mr. Nartey, there are ongoing partnerships with government, through the
Ministry of Business Development, to grow about 20 indigenous companies into
multinationals capable of competing globally within the next four years.
According
to him, IIA Ghana is aimed at: “coordinating private sector efforts to build
local content and develop the needed capacity and skills for sustained growth
and jobs creation, it has grown to become a relevant local content player with
a vibrant home-grown business ecosystem.”
Country
Manager of the African Development Bank, Dr Yero Baldeh, urge the government to
prioritize some key areas to enable local and upcoming entrepreneurs to expand
their tentacles.
Dr.
Baldeh further said an enhanced access to finance, reinforced business support,
provision of support for entrepreneurship development as well as the promotion
of an enabling environment will help entrepreneurs to compete favourably.
Speaking
on the importance of the Excellence Awards, Dr. Yero Baldeh was hopeful the
ceremony will “empower SMEs to find new innovative ways of resolving challenges
that confront them and enable them to seize opportunities presented by regional
and international markets.”
Deputy
Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah, also reiterated government’s
resolve to embolden the private sector in fulfilment of its industrialization
agenda.
He
opened that efforts are being made to link young entrepreneurs to the relevant
business market through the establishment of incubators across all University
campuses in the country.
The
Invest in Africa (IIA) SME Excellence Awards have been developed to honour
local businesses who, through the ongoing flagship business linkage and skills
development programme of the IIA, have put up enviable potential to scale up
and participate in supply chains of larger organisations both in Ghana and
abroad.
CEO of Right Consult, Godwin Kofi Akuamoah, said “the award
is a recognition of the hard work of the entire team. This will motivate us to expand
our business to other West African countries outside of Ghana and Sierra Leone
where we are currently present.
Other
winners were Stredstar Engineering and Construction LTD winning
Sustainable Business of the Year category, Joissam Ghana Ltd taking home the
Scale-up Business of the Year award, AB Engineering winning the Business
Transformation Award.
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