The Rwanda Development Board (RDB) for the fourth time held its annual Business Excellence Awards ceremony aimed at recognising entrepreneurs and institutions that enhance both innovation and better service delivery.
According to RDB’s Chief Executive Officer John Gara, “the awards are in line with our continuation of honoring investors in the country and foreign ones.”
He noted that this year’s awards had three new entries including, Woman and young entrepreneur of the year as well as a district which performed better in doing business.
The guest of honor Prime Minister Pierre Damien Habumuremyi noted that the government has a will to promote better service delivery and infrastructure development.
He added that as far as the awards are concerned entrepreneurs should put much effort into innovation since it facilitates the use of latest technology for instance.
“I’m happy that we are awarding entrepreneurs who strive hard to promote wealth creation and employments at the same time improve the welfare of their employees,” he pointed out.
List of the winners
ICT sector:Large Company : Tigo (Winner) SMEs : Hoziana (Winner)
General Manufacturing sector : BRALIRWA (Winner) SMEs : Soft Group (Winner)
Agro-Processing : Ese Urwibutso (Winner) SMEs : Coproviba (Winner)
Finacial Sector : Bank of Kigali (Winner) SMEs : COMICOKA (Winner)
Mining sector : Wolfram (Winner) SMEs : ALICOMEC SARL (Winner)
Tourism sector : Tourism Promotion Services Ltd- Serena Hotel (Winner) SMEs : RTUC (Winner)
Real Estate : Real Contractors SMEs : Ujenge (Winner)
Best Business Friendly District : Ruhango (Winner)
Customer care Service : Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration
Woman entrepreneur of the year : Mukarubega Zulfat
Young entrepreneur of the year : Jean de Dieu
SME of the year : COPROVIBA (Winner) Soft Group (1st Runner up)
Exporter of the year : BRALIRWA (Winner) Ese Urwibutso (1st Runner up)
Investor of the year : Banque Populaire du Rwanda (Winner) Nakumatt (1st Runner up).
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