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  • Hyundai Nigeria wins ‘Best Corporate Citizen’ award

    FOREMOST Korean auto-maker Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) has given the ‘Best Corporate Citizen’ award to Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limited.

    The award, in recognition of Hyundai Motors Nigeria’s outstanding performance and corporate social responsibility initiatives, was presented at the just concluded 7th Hyundai bi-annual Global Distributors Convention in France.

    No fewer than 250 distributors and top executives from 117 countries joined executives from HMC headquarters and subsidiaries at the gathering.

    Hyundai Motors Nigeria Vice Chairman Mr Haresh Vaswani, received the award on behalf of Hyundai Nigeria team at Monaco.

    Hyundai Nigeria was named amongst other international recipients including representatives of Australia, France, India and Russia.

    The Korean automaker acknowledged the local agent’s social welfare and corporate responsibility initiatives towards the less privileged with recourse to consecutive donations of relief materials to orphanage homes in Lagos, Abuja, PortHarcourt and Calabar within the last three years.

    HMC also acknowledged the company’s anti-malaria campaign initiative which began in Lagos three years ago and was subsequently extended to Enugu and Owerri.

    Describing the awardees as “remarkable group of people,” the Executive Vice President Mr Tak UkIm, said “Despite uncertainty in the global economy, I am confident that Hyundai sales will exceed expectations for this year.”

    He enjoined the distributors to work together to make Hyundai the most loved brand in the world, saying, “Our future success is guaranteed when we move forward together to inspire and excite our customers.”

    Vaswani expressed delight at the awards and described it as another milestone and opportunity to aspire to even greater height, while growing alongside world renowned Hyundai brand.

    “Our team was extremely excited when we heard the news and it felt like we’ve made a breakthrough in the field of marketing and essentially got more than 50 million Nigerians to drive Hyundai cars. We surely will continue our celebration beyond Monaco,” he.

  • CIPM hosts corporate performance forum

    The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) would use its Fifth Special Human Resource Forum billed for April in Lagos to focus on organisational development and corporate performance.

    Speaking on the forthcoming yearly forum, President, CIPM, Mr Abiola Popoola, said the forum would brainstorm on how to organise major driver for effective corporate performance.

    He noted that the theme: Organizational development: Driver for effective corporate performance, was carefully chosen to further optimise corporate performance in the country, especially by harnessing the skills, experience and knowledge of human resources.

    Managing Director of Guinness Nigeria Plc, Mr Seni Adetun and Senior Manager, People and Change, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Botswana, Ethel Kuuya have been confirmed as Chairman and Guest Speaker at the forum.

    The Special Human Resource Forum is a one-day event that is targeted at senior people in the human resource practice and it’s aimed at aimed at enhancing the practice of the human resource profession in the country.

    “We have lined up renowned professionals in the industry who will do justice to the theme at this year’s forum. You know you are sure of getting the best value out of that forum,” Popoola said.