Results of Nigeria’s Most Respected Company and CEO for 2006

Lagos 14 September 2006, Nestlé Nigeria Plc emerged as Nigeria's Most Respected Company for 2006 taking the coveted position from Cadbury Nigeria Plc who won the award at the maiden edition of the awards last year.

GTBank Plc won the 2nd place position while Cadbury Nigeria Plc was voted 3rd most respected company.

In the CEO category, while Bunmi Oni of Cadbury moved up from 2nd place last year to win the no 1 position as Most Respected CEO for 2006, Jim Ovia of Zenith Bank Plc emerged as the 2nd most respected CEO, while Aliko Dangote was in 3rd place this year.

These are the results of the Nigeria's Most Respected Company and CEO survey which was commissioned by PricewaterhouseCoopers in conjunction with Business Day Media Limited.
The results were presented at an awards ceremony on Thursday, 14 September at the Eko Hotel and Suites.

Some of the reasons given by the CEOs for their choices in both the CEO and company categories include the following:

• Social responsibility
• High ethical standards
• Excellent Business culture
• Strong brands/ brand Name
• Unique & excellent leadership skills
• Vision and Innovation
• Human capital development
• Good corporate governance
• High stakeholder value
• Market performance

Nigeria's Most Respected Company and CEO survey is an initiative of PricewaterhouseCoopers. The survey results are based purely on the opinions of CEOs of companies in Nigeria.

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