Melcom opens third outlet in Kumasi
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has inaugurated a new branch of Melcom shop at Adum, Kumasi, with a firm assurance of supporting investors in the Ashanti Region to grow their businesses.
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He said promoting businesss in the region would not only provide employment opportunities for the youth, but would also enhance capacity building and empower them more meaningfully.
The new Melcom outlet, dubbed Kumasihene's House, is a six–storey edifice which adds up to three other shopping malls operated by Melcom Group of Companies in the Kumasi Metropolis.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu commended the management of Melcom for their entrepreneurship, saying it was for such reasons that he provided them an avenue to build the new shop in the Central Business District of Adum.
Giving the historical picture about why the shop was christened Kumasihene’s House, Otumfuo Osei Tutu said it was first occupied by Prempeh I after he returned from the Seychelles Island.
“When Otumfuo Agyemang Prempeh I returned from the Seychelles Island, this was the place he stayed, and the inscription was Kumasihene’s House.”
He said it was his desire to maintain the historical and cultural importance of the house that implored him to offer the space to Melcom Group of Companies to rehabilitate it when they requested to build another shop.
The Chairman of Melcom Group of Companies, Mr Bhagwan Khubchandani, disclosed that the new shop brought to 26 the number of shops operated by his company, since they started operations in the country 26 years ago.
He said the company currently employed 2000 people and would add additional 200 next year.
He said as part of the company’s social responsibilities, the company had decided to offer scholarship to the wards of the staff of the company from the basic to the tertiary levels.
In an address read on his behalf, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Eric Opoku, said Kumasi offered a conducive business environment for investors, and, therefore, urged the business community to take opportunity and invest there.
He also advised the management of the company to continue dealing in products that met international standards to enable their clients to get value for products they buy from them.