ECOM Ghana bags three Ghana Club 100 awards
Ecom, a leading global commodity merchant and sustainable supply chain management company, picked three awards at the 18th edition of the Ghana Club 100 Awards in Accra.
The company’s subsidiary, Agro-Ecom Ghana Limited, was ranked the 10th Best Company in Ghana as well as the best new entrant into Ghana Club 100.
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Its logistics subsidiary, KITEKO Ghana Limited was adjudged the 26th best company in Ghana.
Delivering a speech at the awards, the Regional Director of Africa & Global Head of Edible Nuts, Mr Rahul Gopinath, noted that the company had been one of the leading investors in sustainable agriculture in the country and a major player in the cocoa sector.
He said; “We have over the years invested over $100 million in farmer training, agro inputs and financial solutions to farmers.”
Commenting on the awards, the Country Director of Ecom Ghana, Mr Muhammadu Muzzammil, said:
“We achieved this because of our passion working towards building wealth for farmers and our entrepreneurial spirit that continuously brings innovation to our business practices.”
The awards were received on behalf of the company by the Country Director of Ecom Ghana, Mr Muzzammil, the General Manager of KITEKO Ghana, Mr Onyina Acheampong Akwasi Gyamfi and the acting General Manager of Agro-Ecom Ghana Limited, Mr Andy A. Bonsu.
The awards ceremony was organised by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre under the theme: “Agriculture: The Bedrock of Ghana's Economy".
Subsidiaries
The company operates five subsidiaries including AgroEcom Ghana Limited; Crop Doctor Ghana Limited;
KITEKO Ghana Limited; Sustainable Management Services and UNICOM Commodities Ghana Ltd. Six thousand people work directly and indirectly with Ecom Ghana.
Over 150,000 farmers are presently benefiting from the company’s entrepreneurship initiatives which are geared towards helping build rural prosperity.
Ecom Ghana provides advisory services, training and support to farmers on productivity, quality, certification, crop diversification, environmental and other broader social issues.
The company is a long-term trade partner to Ghana Cocoa Board.
Its subsidiaries, Agro Ecom Ghana Limited and Unicom Commodities Ghana Ltd. in partnership with COCOBOD, operates the largest sustainability programme in Ghana to provide traceable and sustainable cocoa from Ghanaian farmers to chocolate manufacturers in Europe and USA.
Ecom actively invests in farmer capacity building to move them from subsistence farming, to farming as a business through coaching on best practices.
The company also engages in additional livelihood projects that supports income diversity. Ecom, through its subsidiary Crop Doctor, provides high-quality agro chemicals and farm implements at affordable prices to enhance farm productivity.
In 2009, KITEKO Ghana Limited was incorporated as a subsidiary of Ecom Ghana to provide transport and logistics services.
KITEKO Ghana Limited runs a large logistics fleet of 200 trucks, and 60,000 square metres of warehousing space for efficient operations. It hauls for AgroEcom Ghana Limited and UNICOM Commodities Ghana Ltd.
CSR
Through its corporate social responsibility efforts, Ecom Ghana has provided infrastructure developments in Health, Access to Potable Water and Education.
The company has refurbished seven hospitals and 35 schools, installed over 300 boreholes, distributed 50 computer classrooms and invested GH¢1.4 million with the Otumfuo AgroEcom mobile learning platform, providing ICT training to rural kids.
The Ghana Club 100 is an annual compilation of the top 100 companies in Ghana which have excelled in growing their business operations in the year under review.
The Ghana Club 100 is about corporate excellence. Companies making it into the Ghana Club 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.
Its mother company, Ecom Agroindustrial Corp., is celebrating its 170th year in the agriculture sector and next year marks 20 years of its association and presence in Ghana.