BusinessWorld Celebrates Nigeria’s 100 Largest Companies
Eko Hotel & Suits, Victoria Island, Lagos will this Friday be agog with activities as BusinessWorld, a leading business weekly in the country officially presents awards to the Nigerian companies that came tops in the performance ranking of top 100 quoted companies in Nigeria as contained in 2011 edition of BusinessWorld 100 publication.
The award, which is part of BusinessWorld’s mission to contribute meaningfully to the economic development of the country by encouraging entrepreneurship and high performance in the various sectors of the nation’s economy, is to celebrate companies that scaled through the rigorous assessment employed by the newspaper to identify companies that are making great impact in the current quest to return the nation’s economy to growth in their various sectors.
The corporate leaders are First Bank Plc, the Largest Company in Nigeria; Dangote Group, The Most Profitable Company in Nigeria; Julius Berger Plc, The Highest Employer of Labour; Oando Plc, The Highest Revenue Earner; Zenith Bank Plc, The Most Capitalised Company in Nigeria and Dangote Cement, The Most Valuable Company in Nigeria.
Sectorial Leaders are First Bank Plc for the banking sector, AIICO Insurance Plc, for the insurance sector, Oando Plc for the oil and gas sector and Dangote Cement Plc which clinched the award for the manufacturing sector.
Senator Gbenga Obadara, a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the chairman of the occasion while Professor Dora Akunyili, former information and communications minister is the guest speaker.
The award, which is part of BusinessWorld’s mission to contribute meaningfully to the economic development of the country by encouraging entrepreneurship and high performance in the various sectors of the nation’s economy, is to celebrate companies that scaled through the rigorous assessment employed by the newspaper to identify companies that are making great impact in the current quest to return the nation’s economy to growth in their various sectors.
The corporate leaders are First Bank Plc, the Largest Company in Nigeria; Dangote Group, The Most Profitable Company in Nigeria; Julius Berger Plc, The Highest Employer of Labour; Oando Plc, The Highest Revenue Earner; Zenith Bank Plc, The Most Capitalised Company in Nigeria and Dangote Cement, The Most Valuable Company in Nigeria.
Sectorial Leaders are First Bank Plc for the banking sector, AIICO Insurance Plc, for the insurance sector, Oando Plc for the oil and gas sector and Dangote Cement Plc which clinched the award for the manufacturing sector.
Senator Gbenga Obadara, a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the chairman of the occasion while Professor Dora Akunyili, former information and communications minister is the guest speaker.
