General Categories
Excellence in Customer Service Award
This award recognizes the standard of customer service offered by individual shipping lines, or their agent, as seen by their customers. To win this award a business must excel in providing the highest level of customer experience via their involvement in communications, problem solving and innovation.
Excellence in HSEQ Award
This award will be made to the company responsible for introducing effective safety measures producing demonstrable improvements in occupational health and safety or risk reduction. This may involve either the movement of freight or by any mode carrying freight.
Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility
Judging Criteria as follows
• Commitment to employee and community welfare
• Giving back to society via staff volunteering schemes
• Global spread of CSR commitment
• Fund raising or charity programmes to help society
Promising Group of Companies /Company of the Year
An award for a Company/Group of Companies within 5 years of working in any sector of the Ghanaian economy deemed to have made special contribution to the economy during the past twelve months.
Promising CEO/Entrepreneur of the Year
An award for a person/professional under the age of 40 working in any sector of the Ghanaian economy deemed to have made special contribution to his or her industry during the past twelve months.
Excellence in Innovation and Technology
A firm must showcase smart new products or services which approach the everyday in new ways, enhance performance, decrease costs, or spearhead that big change that no one even thought they needed until it was made.
i. The entry must detail a product or service or business process that shows genuine innovation.
ii. Related to any part of a company’s offering, the innovation must demonstrate concrete benefits to the company, its customers or suppliers.
iii. The entry for this award must demonstrate the impact the new innovation has had upon the business: did productivity increase? Did revenues or profitability increase? Did the product set a new internal or industry standard?
Social Entrepreneur of the Year
This award will recognize an outstanding achiever, an owner of a company who has a successful track record and has made a telling socio economic contribution. The nominee must have used his/her influence, resource and expertise to contribute to his business or projects that has the society as the focus.
Local Content Award
This award recognizes implementation of policies that ensure significant participation by local companies and citizens, in both direct employment and in awarding contracts. It also considers regulations tailored to the absorptive capacity of national industry. The award also recognizes country-based Local content strategies that satisfy business plans, meet Local content obligations, and strengthen backward-linkages and local supplier competitiveness.
Brand of the Year
Whether it's a prelaunch, reformulation, brand extension, or simply a new or better approach, this award recognises outstanding performance by an existing brand in response to changing trade or consumer needs in the country. This is a household name in the Ghanaian industry and has been selected for truly being exceptional.
Emerging Brand of the Year
Nominees for the emerging brand of the year Award are companies that have developed or entered new markets and/or innovative business strategies that have grown their networks, revenues, customer patronage and/or brand recognition. This award is presented to new company that is less than 5 years old and has campaigned well by introducing and providing a marketing strategy that has delivered measurable results in customer and/or revenue growth, a business strategy that has increased brand recognition and loyalty across existing and new customers, an innovative marketing and branding strategy that differentiates the carrier from its competitors.
Group of companies of the year
Promising Group of companies of the year
Company of the Year
Promising Company of the Year
CEO of the Year
Entrepreneur of the Year
Promising Entrepreneur of the Year
Social Entrepreneur of the Year
Corporate Social Responsibility Company of the Year
Customer Service company of the Year
Indigenous Company of the Year
Emerging Brand of the Year
Brand of the Year
Excellence In Innovations
Local Content Award
INDUSTRY SPECIFIC AWARDS
Telecom of the Year
Mobile Money Service provider of the Year
Farming Company of the Year
Agro Input Company of the Year
Shipping Company of the Year
Pharmaceutical Company of the Year
Airline of the Year (International)
Airline of the Year (Domestic)
Finance house of the Year
Savings and Loans Company of the Year
Securities and Investment Company of the Year
Media Organisation of the Year
Oil and Gas Company of the Year (Upstream)
Oil and Gas Company of the Year (Downstream)
Microfinance Company of the Year
General insurance Company of the Year
Life Insurance Company of the Year
Real Estate Company of the Year
Retail Company of the Year
Hospitality Company of the Year
Government Agency of the Year
Pension Company of the Year
Supply Company of the year
Construction Company of the Year
Health Insurance Company of the Year
Security Company of the Year
Sanitation Company of the Year
IT Company of the Year
Beverage/Water Company for the Year
Manufacturing Company of the Year
Logistics Service Provider of the Year
Auto Company of the Year
Non-Governmental Organization of the Year
Importer of the Year
Supplier of the Year
Mining Company of the Year
Exporter of the Year
Consultancy firm of the Year
Bank of the Year
Government Agency of the Year
Print Company of the Year
Restaurant of the Year
Life Insurance Company of the Year
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Life Time Achievement Award
Excellence in Business Award
Woman of Excellence Award
Outstanding Leadership Award
Outstanding Contribution to the Economy