The Association of
Ghana Industries (AGI) has launched the third Ghana Industry Awards spanning
all businesses to commemorate the efforts of Ghanaian industries. The awards
event dubbed “ REWARDING INDUSTRY TO PROMOTE MADE IN GHANA PRODUCTS” is due to
take place on November,22nd seeks to promote and maintain high
business standards among the Ghana business industries.
The President of AGI,
James Asare-Adjei, addressed the current nature of doing business in Ghana in terms
of energy supply and international competition. “The latest media report on
energy gives us a gloomy picture of our power supply in the months ahead and
there is very little industry can do without power supply. Besides the domestic
factors, our industries still come under global challenges from rapidly
emerging foreign markets which do business at lower costs than we do and it
becomes difficult to remain competitive.”
Furthermore, he added
that Ghanaian local businesses must look to the direction of developing the local economy in order to cut down
importation. “The weak macro economic fundamentals that we have suffered this
year are a reflection of the country’s huge imports. Therefore we must strive
to pursue an export oriented path of development and I believe the
Made-in-Ghana campaign is a good start.”
The Chairperson of AGI,
Nora Bannaman-Abbot, expressed her joy in the AGI awards from it’s inception to
it’s present state. She further added that the made-in-Ghana campaign is the right start to local industry
development. “The effective promotion of made in Ghana products will strengthen
the market position for our local products and the development of local
industries.”
The awards ceremony
will be under six key categories;
Overall best company of
the year
Best cor
Best company employer
of the year
Young enterprise
company (innovation and enterprise)
Fastest growing company
of the year
Best practices in
sustainable manufacturing company and 20 sector categories of AGI.
