Small-scale businesses will enjoy better services — Mel Kebe
The Country Manager of Saham Insurance Ghana Limited, Mr Mel Kebe, has hinted that small-scale businesses in Ghana will enjoy better services from this year, since the rebranding of the company had been completed.
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That, he said, had positioned the company at a more strategic level for businesses to thrive and boost the economy of Ghana as well.
He also said the company employed over 6,000 young workers who were skilled and focused on ensuring that the company realised its dream of providing quality service to its clients.
According to Mr Kebe, the re-branding of the Colina Insurance Group as Saham Insurance would create various opportunities for the packaging of commercial property and make it more attractive to encourage commercial property owners to insure their properties.
Colina Life Ghana, which has been in the insurance and reinsurance business for over 34 years now, has operated in 20 countries in Africa with 46 subsidiaries.The group, which is a true pan-African insurer owned by Africans, has provided best insurance solutions to a greater number of people in Africa and the Middle East.
The group also provides insurance packages which include life insurance, general insurance, health and reinsurance, to mention a few.
Due to its strong and solid financial base, it strengthened itself with a strategic and equitable partnership with leading financial players of the world, including Abraaj Capital, Wendel and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
As a result of their efforts, the two institutions invested 250 million Euros equity into the company which yielded positively in the year 2013, with an additional 100 million Euros equity investment.
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He said Saham Insurance Company's vision was to be the lead insurance business in all emerging markets through the provision of solutions, innovatively created and adopted for its valued customers to engage them, while ensuring their safety, efficiency and transparency.
Mr Kebe further noted that the company had injected some innovative products into the Ghanaian market, namely assured group solution, assured group welfare solution and assured funeral solution.
The rest are broker-led bank assurance and commercial property insurance to provide the needed support for their clients.
He said although the country currently was witnessing a depreciation of the cedi, the company was hopeful that both short and long-term policies put in place by the Bank of Ghana would help strengthen the cedi to compete with the dollar.
That, he said, would help to improve Ghanaian businesses and encourage growth in the Ghanaian economy.
Mr Kebe added the company welcomed the competition in the insurance sector, which would broaden the sector and promote quality services for customers.
He also assured customers that Saham would promptly pay claims and was committed to providing quality services to their clients at all times.