Graphic honours hardworking staff
Twenty-two hardworking staff of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), including seven journalists who won Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) awards, were yesterday honoured for their outstanding contributions to the company in 2015.
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Mr Maxwell Adombilla Akalaare, a reporter with the Graphic Business, was declared the Overall Best Worker for the year.
Mr Akalaare also picked the Newspapers Department’s award as the Best Worker for Graphic Business.
Other staff awarded
In the other categories, Mr Severious Kale Dery, Mr Vincent Amenuveve of the Upper East office; Madam Cecilia Oppong of the Akyem Oda office, Ms Juanita Abedi of the Proofreading Unit, Mr Eric Adu of the Finance and Audit Unit and Ms Lydia Siaw of the the Human Resource and Administration Department were honoured.
The others were: Ms Mavis Kyerewa Boateng of the Corporate Communications Unit, Mr Jeffrey Yartey of Marketing and Mr Benjamin Tsatsu of Sales and Circulation departments.
The rest were: Mr Suleiman Mustapha of Graphic Business, Mr Ayuba Collins Kwofie of Transport, Ms Harriet Arthur and Mr Bernard Nyarko, both of G-PAK.
All the award winners received certificates, citations and undisclosed sums of money.
Long-service awards were also given to staff who had served the company for 10 years and above.
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Effects of cedi depreciation
The Managing Director of GCGL, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, while praising them for their distinguished service, said the unstable exchange rate of the cedi against the dollar had adversely affected the projected revenue of the company for 2015.
He said the year had thus been a difficult and interesting one, with the need for cash outstripping what had been budgeted due to the persistent bad performance of the cedi against the major international trading currencies.
Mr Ashigbey said 2016 would see the company implementing an austere budget.
He announced that drastic measures would be instituted next year to cut waste and that innovative plans would be adopted to boost single-copy sales, stressing that “in 2016, all the brands would have to grow.”
Towards that end, he called on staff of the company to step up their efforts at finding innovative ways for the sale of the company’s brands, urging that “we need a lot of innovation and need to challenge ourselves.”
One million subscribers
He, therefore, urged the staff to pursue aggressive marketing strategies to achieve a projected one million subscribers for the Graphic News App, the digital versions of all the brands in the next four years.
Next year being an election year, Mr Ashigbey said, it ought to be an opportunity for the company to get more clients and increase sales. He also said the company would give the polls a credible nationwide coverage
He indicated that the technical team of the company had been tasked to ensure that the challenges that the press encountered which sometimes delayed production were not carried into 2016.
Mr Ashigbey commended the entire staff for accommodating the challenges in the year and urged them to put any misunderstanding that arose behind them and enter the New Year with a renewed attitude to work.
The Vice-chairman of the local workers’ union, Mr William Ashalley, admonished the staff to be agents of change in the New Year by working hard to transform the fortunes of the company for the better.
He said much innovation would be needed to scale over the challenges that 2016 would bring in order to advance the fortunes of the company and promote workers’ welfare.
Writer’s email: victor.kwawukume@graphic.com.gh
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