Accra, Ghana, May 11, 2018//-His numerous achievements in business, corporate governance, traditional leadership, and philanthropy are yet to be celebrated publicly in Ghana. But his stellar success story has been hailed globally with awards and panegyrics.
He is an entrepreneur par excellence of no mean measure and cheerful giver with a big heart towards humanitarian causes. With all these achievements following through his thumb, Nana Kwadwo Gyasi is a great personality who no Ghanaian can arguably beat.
The advice, expertise, experience and wisdom of this indomitable star achiever are being sought for locally and internationally.
For his immeasurable and inimitable achievements, Nana Gyasi has been rewarded locally and globally with several rewards and accolades.
In 2014, he won two awards. He was celebrated with the ‘Special for Pioneering Indigenous Entrepreneurship in the Building Materials Industry’ award by the Business Executive, a monthly magazine in Ghana at its 2nd Business Excellence awards held in Accra. His company- Nana K. Gyasi Company Limited, Ghana’s foremost building materials supplier also won ‘Best Indigenous Building Materials Company’ at the same event.
The owner of the company, Nana Kwadwo Gyasi has been invited to receive a personal Honorary Doctorate in United Kingdom (UK), this year
Additionally, the company picked the ‘Global Centre for Transformational Leadership and the Ashanti Business Excellence Award’. It has in the past been recipient of both Ghacem National Distributor Award and the Ghacem Best Branded Outlet Award which is testimony of the company’s pre-eminent position in the building materials trade.
Furthermore, in recognition of its outstanding contribution to the development of Ghana, Gold Award was conferred on the Nana K. Gyasi Company Limited at the fifth Ghana Business and Financial Services Excellence Awards organised under the auspices of the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
As Ronald Ron Popeil, an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company, Ronco once said: “Developing and marketing a product are like left and right feet. They both have to work for the product to succeed”.
It appeared that Mr Popeil had Nana Kwadwo Gyasi and his company in mind when he made the above short and concise aphorism some decades ago.
Nana Kwadwo Gyasi who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nana K. Gyasi Company Limited is eyeing the West Africa building materials market in the coming years after leading the Ghanaian market for many years.
In the words of Nana Gyasi: “We Aspire to be the Number one building material supplier in Ghana and beyond in the coming years through excellent service to all our valued customers and to be customers”.
His urge for excellent service to all valued customers and potential customers has made the company ‘the builders’ choice’ in Ghana.
Meteoric Rise
Nana Gyasi started the company from very humble beginnings in the late 1970s as a Mechanical firm at Tarkwa Maakro in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
The company’s office was relocated to Bremen also in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region, the products were supplied to big clients like the then OSA and STC transportation companies.
In 1993, K. Gyasi Company Ltd invested the proceeds from the motor enterprise in the setting up of a full time business trading in building materials principally iron rods, cement, roofing sheets, nails, and binding wires.
During that same year the company started dealing in cements. In 1993, Nana K. Gyasi Company Ltd started full time businesses in building materials.
The first branch of the company commenced operation in 1993 at Akweteman in Accra, and followed by the Fumesua branch in Kumasi. Currently, the company has a very strong and competent human resource operating from 17 branches in and around Accra and Kumasi.
The Accra branches are located at Akweteman, Kwashieman, Tantra Hills, and Pokuase Depot. The Kumasi branches are located at Fumesua, Magazine New Road, Ampabame, Tanoso, Sepaase Depot, Amanfrom and Bremang.
The company also has two branches at Kasoa Iron City and Kasoa Depot in the Central Region.
With a workforce exceeding 400 including steel blenders, Nana K Gyasi Company Limited is today a leader in the building materials distribution business in Ghana.
He believes that a healthy and a happier work force retain customers as a result the company under his leadership continues to invest hugely on human resource development. “We work hard to retain the best minds and build a better future for our employees”.
This tenacity of purpose seed sowed by Nana Gyasi has germinated and grew to become nerve centre of the country’s building materials industry.
Today, Nana Gyasi as well as his company has become a household name not only in Ghana but abroad. This meteoritic rise has been chalked due to Nana Gyasi’s unparalleled business acumen, sheer determination and the zeal to create several employment opportunities for the teeming youth people in the country.
As an indomitable entrepreneur, Nana Gyasi never allowed the different headwinds to weigh him and his dependable team down. He rather turned those challenges into gold opportunities.
As a visionary entrepreneur par excellence, Nana Gyasi saw a far and repositioned the company to serve his customers with quality but affordable building materials with alacrity.
Nana Gyasi as a Philanthropist
Corporate social responsibility is a vital aspect of Nana K. Gyasi Company Limited’s philosophy. Over the years, the company has been making yearly donations to the SOS Village and other children’s homes in Kumasi.
It is currently sponsoring the education of numerous brilliant but needy students at the Junior High School (JHS), Senior High School (SHS) and tertiary levels all over the country.
The company has also made frequent donations to both government and private institutions including the Ghana Police Service, hospitals, churches, and schools as well as the Bridgewater Project for Kayayei. Nana K. Gyasi Company Limited has constructed a bridge for the community at Suame Kropo and a sanitary facility for the Church of Pentecost at Suame, Kumasi.
By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, African Eye Report