Bamson success depends on quality service - MD

Mr Kwame Ofosu Bamfo, Managing Director of Bamson Company Limited, manufacturer of Sikkens paints in the country, says the achievement of the corporate entity depends on quality service delivery.

Mr Bamfo said the company would continue to provide quality products into the markets with the passion to retain Bamson and Sikkens at the top of the industry.

He said this at the weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the company and awarded deserving staff, who have contributed to the success of the company.

Mr Bamfo, who is also the Managing Director of the local representatives of Akzo Nobel Sikkens of The Netherlands, Glostal Aluminum Systems Limited and Alisa Hotel limited, said the company has won lots of awards due to its contribution in the industry sector.

The Managing Director in 1991 was awarded Marketing Personality of the year by the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana, in 1993 and received the Akzo Nobel International award as best sales company of Sikkens products in Africa.

The company in 1996 received the Head of State Good Governance Citizen Award and in 2000 and, the Millennium Excellence Awards in the industry category.

He noted that, the company has seven branches across the country, with 39 distributors and 120 staff, and has over the years trained more than 10,000 sprayers and workshop managers both locally and abroad in the vehicle repair sector.

“My company has made the training centres available to Ghana Armed Forces, Ghana Police Service, the polytechnics and other institutions at no cost as part of its corporate social responsibility,” he added.

He said the company has set up Sikkens Education Trust to provide financial assistance to needy but brilliant students in the Kwahu and Affram plains, built a junior high school (JHS) block for Obomeng, provided two fridges to Tease Presbyterian Health Centre.

“As part of the celebration, the company has painted the Adum Presbyterian JHS block in Kumasi at a cost of GH¢ 20,000 and donated GH¢ 10,000 towards the June 3 disaster victims in Accra and painted the Burns Unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital at the cost of GH¢ 30,000.”

He said the company with the support of his brothers, Mike Twum Barima and Emmanuel Kwasi Adjei, they have refurbished the Tease Presbyterian Health Centre at a cost of GH¢ 200, 000 and provided a 60 KVA generator.

Mr Bamfo said in collaboration with the Afram Plains Development Organisation, Sikkens has set up a Health Insurance Foundation to help the needy in Afram to access quality health care, which has provided 1,200 beneficiaries.

Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, Special Representatives of United Nations Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Office in West Africa, commended the company for its achievement, adding that the success story is worthy of research by the country’s business schools as a case study.

He said successful entrepreneurs figure out what is fundamentally wrong about a business and reo-invent it,” no wonder Mr Bamfo is an example of a great entrepreneur in the country”.

Institutions such as Emmkwab Trading, A.Y.Asiamah Enterprise, Kusi Bempong Enterprise, Opoku Agyemang Enterprise and Kolours Limited were awarded for contributing to the success of the company.

Autobile companies such as Kalmoni Group, Toyota Ghana Company Limited, CFAO Motors, Pasico and Mechanical Lloyd and some staff of the company were also awarded.