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Airtel Ghana, through its Enterprise solutions sub brand, Airtel Business, held its annual customer dinner and awards last Thursday to celebrate and award customers and partners who excelled in various categories for the year under review.<\/p>\n

The awards, now in its second year, seek to celebrate and reward Airtel Business customers for their partnership and loyalty over the years.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s awards focused on celebrating SME customers and Airtel Money partners who have distinguished themselves, grown their businesses and impacted the lives of others through their operations.<\/p>\n

Overall, a total of nine businesses were awarded during the event under different categories. Papa\u2019s Pizza Limited, walked away with the ultimate prize of the night \u2013 picking up the Business of the Year award for demonstrating strong growth, innovative strategies and outstanding performance through its operations.<\/p>\n

Other awardees included Mawums Limited who picked the Outstanding Achievement Award for aggressively and innovatively pursuing business in untapped segments.<\/p>\n

The other big winners for the night were Sarcon Quarry Limited who picked the award for Excellence ongoing Achievement and Loyalty. Aviat Networks Ghana Limited and Anglican Diocese of Accra walked away with Supplier Partner of the Year and Special Recognition Awards respectively.<\/p>\n

Airtel Business also honoured some of its Airtel Money partners for supporting e-commerce in Ghana through direct and indirect operations. The honourees were First Atlantic Bank, who picked up the top award for Best Airtel Money Partner, Nsano Limted was adjudged Airtel Money Aggregator of the Year, Sports Betting Ghana Limited (Betway) was recognized as Best Airtel Money Corporate Partner(Collections) and L\u2019Aine Services Limited as Best Airtel Money Corporate Partner (Bulk Payment).<\/p>\n

Speaking at the event, Airtel Ghana\u2019s Marketing Director, Rosy Fynn said \u201cas Ghana\u2019s industry leader in data, digital and enterprise solutions, we greatly invest in empowering businesses through innovative collaborative, communication and connectivity services because we believe in their potential to bring value to consumers and the nation. Aside offering world class services that enables businesses to thrive we guard jealously, our relationships with these businesses and work to ensure we provide them with unparalleled enterprise solutions for all their business needs. We remain committed to supporting SMEs grow and prosper because as they grow, the economy grows and we grow as a business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Head of Airtel Business, Richard Adiase, took the opportunity to thank all customers for their loyalty and partnership over the years. He said \u201cthis set of awards is our way of celebrating our customers for their loyalty, partnership and patronage over the years. They have truly made us the enterprise solutions provider of choice in Ghana through their patronage and partnership and for that we want to thank them. The SME sector contributes significantly to the GDP of this country. The sector provides more jobs than many other sectors of the economy and they must be supported to grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are committed to enabling our SMEs grow through the tailor made communication, connectivity and collaborative solutions we provide for them. We will continue to invest in our network and Fibre connections to serve the needs of businesses in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Airtel Business is the enterprise oriented sub brand of Airtel Ghana providing solutions for businesses in Ghana. It provides a suite of solutions for SMEs, Home business solutions for clusters and residential areas, internet service providers, large corporations and multinations.<\/p>\n

The CEO of Papas Pizza, Kwame Osei Owusu Ansah,thanked Airtel Ghana on behalf of all awardees, for the recognition and for providing cutting edge enterprise solutions that has empowered them to drive their businesses.<\/p>\n

Airtel Ghana is the industry\u2019s leader in data and digital innovation providing unparalleled solutions for businesses \u2013 small, medium and large.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Credit: \u00a0Airtel Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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