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Hollard Ghana Holdings Limited has announced the appointment of Cynthia Ofori-Dwumfuo as Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Affairs, reporting to Group CEO, Patience Akyianu. Cynthia will be responsible for formulating and driving strategic marketing initiatives aimed at enhancing the Hollard brand and sustainably growing its various subsidiaries – Hollard Insurance Ghana Limited and Hollard Life Assurance Ghana Limited.  “Cynthia is an excellent addition to the team. We are excited to have someone of her calibre who embodies the values and personality of the Hollard brand. She is known for her open-minded approach to creating strategic, consumer-oriented communications. We believe Cynthia will bring her energy and experience to bear in achieving our goal to become the number one insurance group,” said Group CEO, Patience Akyianu. Cynthia brings over 12 years of marketing communications experience spanning three continents. Her career has focused on corporate commun...

The President and Chief Executive Officer of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Ichiro Kashitani, has assured the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to expect the first Toyota vehicle to be assembled in Ghana to be outdoored by August 2020. Thanking the government, President Akufo-Addo, for its help and support towards the realisation of this project, Mr. Ichiro Kashitani stated that “we consider the project of the assembly plant a marriage. It lasts for life, and it is a long-term project.” The President and CEO of Toyota Tsusho made this known yesterday; on Thursday, 29th August, 2019, when the Government of Ghana and Toyota Tsusho Corporation signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a Toyota and Suzuki Assembly Plant in Ghana. The Chief Operations Officer of the company in charge of the Africa division of Toyota Tsusho, Mr. Imai Toshimitsu, who was also at the meeting noted that the decision to set up in Ghana has been necessit...

Elizabeth Wyns-Dogbe, Managing Director of SIC Life Insurance Company has been adjudged the Best Life Insurance CEO of the year 2019. The award was conferred to her at the 2019 Ghana Insurance Award ceremony held in Accra recently. The citation accompanying the award said Wyns-Dogbe has cheered affairs of SIC Life diligently and had consistently grown the company to profitability and making SIC the second largest Life Insurance Company in the market amongst twenty-five life operators in the country. Elizabeth Wyns-Dogbe, is a Chartered Insurer and an Associate Member of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) UK. She has 17years’ experience in insurance and risk management. She started her insurance career with a leading insurance brokerage and consultancy firm in Ghana. For several years, she worked with a team of both local and international engineers and insurers who restructured and managed the risk management and insurance programmes of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and ...

The awards received by the Port Elizabeth plant's management team, pictured (from left): Claude Roux, Mpumelelo Nqebe, Neil Stander, Shaun Barnardo, John Cameron, Michael Verwant, Shawn Sharp, Hyron Muniz and Paul Brooks Ford's Struandale Engine Plant in Port Elizabeth has emerged victorious once again at the annual Exporters Eastern Cape awards ceremony, earning two category wins and a merit award. The Exporter of the Year gala banquet, which was held at The Boardwalk Convention Centre on Friday 16 August, saw Ford receive the coveted IDC Job Creation Award for the exporter that created the most sustainable jobs within their business in the last financial year. Additionally, the Struandale Engine Plant earned the SJM Flex Environmental Award for excellence in environmental management. The local team also walked away with a Merit Award in the 'Best Exporter OEM' category for the automotive sector, emphasizing the significant role Ford's P...

Nissan Kicks owners have new bragging rights, after this compact crossover was singled out the second time in a year for its impressive interior design and focus on driver and passenger comfort. WardsAuto – a media group that focuses on the automotive sector – recently picked the Nissan Kicks for its list of the ten cars with the best interior. It has now announced that it has also selected the Kicks as a top 10 finalist in its campaign to find the car that offers the best user experience (UX) on the market. The group is currently testing its top 10 vehicles extensively in everyday use tests and with different judges. It will rank them and announce a winner on 1 October at the WardsAuto UX conference in the United States. Earlier this year, when WardsAuto picked the Nissan Kicks for its fantastic interior, it highlighted the car’s ergonomic layout, ample headroom and impressive focus on quality materials, such as the use of cloth, aluminium and plastic in combination ...

South Africa’s biggest automotive showcase, the Festival of Motoring takes place from 22 – 25 August at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit Audi to utilise the event to launch key, new models into the South African market South Africans can expect an exciting and unique Audi brand experience like no other with a special debut from the brand’s first fully electric vehicle, the Audi e-tron Audi has a lot of exciting activities taking place at the 2019 Festival of Motoring. Show visitors will be the first to touch, feel and have a glance at a few, new vehicles that will soon form part of Audi South Africa’s local model range. In addition to this, Africans and South Africans can expect an exciting, Audi brand experience in the form of high performance, instructor-led track driving as well as a meet and greet opportunity with an international racing legend, Mattias Ekström. As part of Audi South Africa’s local launch plan, show visitors at the 2019 Festival of Motoring will be the f...

BMW Club Ghana (BMWCGH), Ghana’s biggest Auto Club, will host the maiden edition of BMW Clubs West Africa Grand Tour in Accra from 23rd to 25th August, 2019. The event is aimed at bringing together all the BMW Clubs in West Africa for an annual Tourism Drive in a member country each year. This year, members from Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ivory Coast will converge in Ghana for this 3-day event. Activities lined up for the event include trips to interesting tourism sites within the Greater Accra and Eastern regions, inter-club sports competitions, free technical support and diagnostics. The celebrations will be climaxed with a sleep over event at the Aqua Safari in Ada; and end with a Track-Day event. Commenting on the initiative, Kwadwo Oppong, President of the BMW Club Ghana said: “We are excited to be the first Club and country to host this event. We believe this programme will help drive Ghana’s tourism agenda and fortunes. At BMWCGH, our core objective is to enhance the BM...