{"id":251633,"date":"2016-09-24T18:33:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T18:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=251633"},"modified":"2016-09-24T18:33:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T18:33:48","slug":"bizolympics-ifs-sweeps-highest-trophies-stanbic-others-follow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/bizolympics-ifs-sweeps-highest-trophies-stanbic-others-follow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#BizOlympics: IFS sweeps highest trophies, Stanbic, others follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 edition of <strong>Citi Business Olympics<\/strong>, lived up to expectations by becoming the most patronized edition since the innovative idea was initiated by <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Like previous years, the event, which is arguably the biggest gathering of corporate Ghana, saw sixty companies participating \u2013 the highest number ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CitiBizOlympics-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-251298\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CitiBizOlympics-18.jpg\" alt=\"citibizolympics-18\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event ended successfully and on exciting note, as the 60 companies that competed in various games including volley ball, swimming, football, scrabble among others, worked hard for the trophies and for the bragging rights.<\/p>\n<p>The event saw the various participants come from the banking, insurance, technology, pharmaceutical, real estate, automobile and Oil and Gas sectors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/business-olympics-35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-251600\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/business-olympics-35.jpg\" alt=\"business-olympics-35\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the games, IFS Financial Services Limited, topped the list with three trophies. They won the Men&#8217;s Volley Ball, Women&#8217;s Swimming, and Men&#8217;s Tug of war.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana Shippers Authority, which has participated in previous editions, had two trophies just as\u00a0Newrest Ghana ltd, and Stanbic Bank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/business-olympics-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-251588\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/business-olympics-23.jpg\" alt=\"business-olympics-23\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other winners picked one trophy each.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event was sponsored by Premium Bank, Robb Sweet from PZ Cussons and the National Lottery Authority (NLA).<\/p>\n<p>The various companies that won the trophies are listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 aside Football &#8211; <strong>Newrest\u00a0Ghana ltd<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s swimming \u2013 <strong>Goil<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s swimming \u2013 <strong>IFS\u00a0Financial Services limited<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s arm wrestling \u2013 <strong>United Pensions\u00a0trustees<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s arm wrestling \u2013 <strong>Margins Group<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s volley ball \u2013 <strong>Legacy Group<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s volley ball \u2013 <strong>IFS\u00a0Financial Services limited<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Basket Ball \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Meqasa limited<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s lime and spoon \u2013 <strong>Teachers fund<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s lime and spoon \u2013 <strong>Newrest Ghana<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Excel\/Word competition \u2013 <strong>Samsung<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s table tennis \u2013 <strong>Mcottley Holdings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s table tennis \u2013 <strong>Guinness Ghana<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s tug of war \u2013<strong>\u00a0IFS Financial Services Limited<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s tug of Peace\u2013 <strong>Ghana Shippers Authority<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s sack race \u2013<strong> L\u2019aine\u00a0Services Limited<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s sack race \u2013 <strong>Ghana Shippers Authority<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scrabble &#8211; <strong>Petra Trust\u00a0company<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Chess \u2013 <strong>Tigo Business<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CEO\u2019s challenge \u2013<strong> Omni Bank<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s Lawn Tennis \u2013 <strong>Stanbic Bank<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Female Lawn Tennis \u2013 <strong>Premium Bank<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Draught &#8211; <strong>Stanbic Bank<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sixty companies that participated in the games are listed below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Access Bank Ghana limited<\/li>\n<li>AFB Ghana PLC<\/li>\n<li>Axis Pension trust ltd<\/li>\n<li>Bank of Africa Ghana limited<\/li>\n<li>Capital and more microfinance co. Ltd<\/li>\n<li>Cherryfield limited<\/li>\n<li>Cinergy Realty limited<\/li>\n<li>Coporate Hills investment ltd<\/li>\n<li>Dalex Finance<\/li>\n<li>Dannex limited<\/li>\n<li>Deng limited<\/li>\n<li>Ernst &amp; Young Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Esich Life Assurance Company Limited<\/li>\n<li>Firstbanc Financial service limited<\/li>\n<li>Freight Consult (GH) limited<\/li>\n<li>G4s Security Services (Ghana) limited<\/li>\n<li>Ghana Free Zones Board<\/li>\n<li>Ghana Home Loans<\/li>\n<li>Ghana National Chamber of commerce<\/li>\n<li>Ghana Oil Company ltd (Goil)<\/li>\n<li>Ghana Shippers Authority<\/li>\n<li>Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) limited<\/li>\n<li>Guinness Ghana breweries limited<\/li>\n<li>HFC Boafo<\/li>\n<li>IBM Ghana ltd<\/li>\n<li>IFS Financial Services limited<\/li>\n<li>Insight (Grey) Advertising<\/li>\n<li>Internet Solutions Ghana<\/li>\n<li>A Plant Pool GH. Ltd<\/li>\n<li>L\u2019aine Services Limited<\/li>\n<li>Legacy group<\/li>\n<li>Margins group<\/li>\n<li>Mcottley Holdings<\/li>\n<li>MDS Lancet lab. Ghana ltd<\/li>\n<li>Meqasa limited<\/li>\n<li>National Health Insurance Authority<\/li>\n<li>National Lottery Authority<\/li>\n<li>Netis Ghana ltd<\/li>\n<li>Newrest Ghana ltd<\/li>\n<li>Ninani Group<\/li>\n<li>Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (Ghana) ltd<\/li>\n<li>Omni Bank<\/li>\n<li>Persol systems limited<\/li>\n<li>Petra trust company<\/li>\n<li>Premium bank<\/li>\n<li>PZ Cussons limited<\/li>\n<li>Ramani distribution company limited<\/li>\n<li>Rockesters roofing systems ltd<\/li>\n<li>Sahel Sahara bank (BSIC GH. 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