Ernest Chemists Limited last Saturday held an awards and dinner dance to honour over 60 individuals and organisations to climax its 30th anniversary celebrations for their support towards the growth and development of the pharmaceutical sector.
The institutions included financial and pharmaceutical companies which were each presented with plaques and certificates of recognition at a dinner and awards dance held over the weekend in Accra.
Winfred Adjei, Assistant Production Manager of Ernest Chemists Limited, said from a humble beginning, the company had become an unavoidable pharmaceutical and therapeutic avenue for many Ghanaians as well as people from the West African sub-region and beyond.
“The real fact that Ernest Chemists had also positioned itself as a resourceful ‘business mother’ from whom many pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical businesses had been nurtured and cultured could not be denied,” he said.
As a compassionate and a caring brand, he mentioned that the company is also the economic and financial livewire for over 600 Ghanaians and non-Ghanaian employees and their dependants, adding that “all these achievements have been made possible due to the support and sacrifices the company has continuously received.”
Speaking at the ceremony, Yaw Bediako Sampong, General Manager, Operations, stated that the company is poised to consolidate the gains made over the last 30 years and to expand the wholesale network into the ECOWAS market and compete favourably with world-acclaimed pharmaceutical companies.
He said already, Ernest Chemists Limited is in Sierra Leone and that the company is in the forefront to contribute to the growth of the pharmaceutical industry.
Mr Bediako Sampong expressed gratitude to all its partners, including its foreign suppliers, the financial institutions who provide the company with credit as well as its workers for being loyal to the company.
The CEO of the company stated that he started his business while he was a student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) after he had gained some experience in pharmaceutical business working with his father.
Mr Sampong, one time CIMG Marketing Man of The Year, a recipient of Ghana’s Order of the Volta (Officer Category) award and twice voted 10th Most Respected CEO in Ghana, pointed out that the company had engaged in numerous corporate social responsibilities in the area of education, sports and community development/health sectors.