Graphic board interacts with management, staff

Members of the reconstituted board of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) have pledged their maximum support for the management and staff of the company.

They expressed their readiness to collaborate with management to boost the operations of the company and make it more successful.

The Chairman of the board, Professor Kwame Omane-Antwi, made the pledge on behalf of the board when the members paid a working visit to the company’s head office in Accra yesterday.

The board members were briefed by the various departmental and unit heads on the functions of their entities.

The other members of the delegation were Dr Eric Oduro Osae, Mr Hajj Muhammed Kpakpo Addo, Mrs Joyce Ossei Agyekum, Mr Solomon Twum-Berimah and Mrs Elaine Sam Kwami.

Delegation-Staff interaction       

They were taken round the various units and departments by Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, the Managing Director of GCGL, who is also a board member.

The five-hour tour took the delegation to the Newspapers Department, the Finance Department, the Marketing and Sales Department, G-PAK, a subsidiary of the company; the Corporate Communications Unit, and the Graphic Press House which is under the Technical Services Department. The board members also visited  the Human Resource Department, the online unit, the Transport unit, the Graphic Clinic and the Mirror House.

The delegation interacted with some of the workers at the various departments and units of the company.

Story selection

At the Editorial Department, the Editor of the Daily Graphic, Mr Ransford Tetteh, who briefed the board, said the editorial team had made conscious efforts to select priority stories for each publication based on consensus, the national interest and market demand.

That, he said, was helping to enhance the news output of each day’s publication.

Mr Tetteh said the editorial conference was pursuing quality control measures at every stage of the news production chain to ensure that journalistic standards and timeliness were met.

He thanked the board for the visit and called on them to visit more often because their interaction with staff and management was a form of encouragement.

He said the department welcomed inputs from the board in its quest to make the newspapers of the stable people-centred.

The Managing Director of the company, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, who gave an outline of GCGL’s activities, talked about initiatives being taken to ensure the effective use of the company’s assets.

He said the company was pursuing plans to ensure that all archives of the company and its various brands were digitised.

Mr Ashigbey added that building of the capacity of staff was a major priority to ensure that they worked effectively and professionally to make the newspapers the preferred choice on the newsstands.