18 July 2008
Nairobi — Celtel, a subsidiary of Zain Group, has won an award for the Best Telecoms operator in Africa at the 2008 Business in Africa Awards held in London recently.
The mobile phone service provider won the award for showing growth and potential of the business landscape across Africa.
Among those who attended the event were 500 government, business and media leaders from across Africa, Europe, Asia and the USA.
Receiving the award for Zain, Mr Tito Alai, chief commercial officer for the group said, "Zain places a huge emphasis on Africa in achieving its 2011 targets of being a top 10 global mobile operator with 110 million customers."
The awards aim at highlighting the growth and potential of the business landscape across Africa, while rewarding excellence and world-class best practices across the continent. "This award is an achievement that represents our belief in the African continent and the potential that exists. Together with our partners and customers we are committed to building the African economic dream and developing telecommunications across the continent as no other telecom company has been able to do," Mr Alai said.
Kenya's Bamburi Cement won the Best Corporate Social responsibility Award and MTN, a mobile communications firm took two awards; African Brand of the year and African Business of the year.
Zain was established in 1983 in Kuwait as the region's first mobile operator.
The awards were co-hosted by the Commonwealth Business Council and African Business magazine.\
The occasion provided an ideal and unique opportunity to give global visibility to African brands.
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