#BizOlympics: IFS sweeps highest trophies, Stanbic, others follow

The 2016 edition of Citi Business Olympics, lived up to expectations by becoming the most patronized edition since the innovative idea was initiated by Citi FM.

Like previous years, the event, which is arguably the biggest gathering of corporate Ghana, saw sixty companies participating – the highest number ever.

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The event ended successfully and on exciting note, as the 60 companies that competed in various games including volley ball, swimming, football, scrabble among others, worked hard for the trophies and for the bragging rights.

The event saw the various participants come from the banking, insurance, technology, pharmaceutical, real estate, automobile and Oil and Gas sectors.

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At the end of the games, IFS Financial Services Limited, topped the list with three trophies. They won the Men’s Volley Ball, Women’s Swimming, and Men’s Tug of war.

Ghana Shippers Authority, which has participated in previous editions, had two trophies just as Newrest Ghana ltd, and Stanbic Bank.

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The other winners picked one trophy each.

This year’s event was sponsored by Premium Bank, Robb Sweet from PZ Cussons and the National Lottery Authority (NLA).

The various companies that won the trophies are listed below:

  • 7 aside Football – Newrest Ghana ltd
  • Men’s swimming – Goil
  • Women’s swimming – IFS Financial Services limited
  • Men’s arm wrestling – United Pensions trustees
  • Women’s arm wrestling – Margins Group
  • Women’s volley ball – Legacy Group
  • Men’s volley ball – IFS Financial Services limited
  • Basket Ball    –   Meqasa limited
  • Men’s lime and spoon – Teachers fund
  • Women’s lime and spoon – Newrest Ghana
  • Excel/Word competition – Samsung
  • Men’s table tennis – Mcottley Holdings
  • Women’s table tennis – Guinness Ghana
  • Men’s tug of war – IFS Financial Services Limited
  • Women’s tug of Peace– Ghana Shippers Authority
  • Men’s sack race – L’aine Services Limited
  • Women’s sack race – Ghana Shippers Authority
  • Scrabble – Petra Trust company
  • Chess – Tigo Business
  • CEO’s challenge – Omni Bank
  • Men’s Lawn Tennis – Stanbic Bank
  • Female Lawn Tennis – Premium Bank
  • Draught – Stanbic Bank

The sixty companies that participated in the games are listed below.

  1. Access Bank Ghana limited
  2. AFB Ghana PLC
  3. Axis Pension trust ltd
  4. Bank of Africa Ghana limited
  5. Capital and more microfinance co. Ltd
  6. Cherryfield limited
  7. Cinergy Realty limited
  8. Coporate Hills investment ltd
  9. Dalex Finance
  10. Dannex limited
  11. Deng limited
  12. Ernst & Young Ghana
  13. Esich Life Assurance Company Limited
  14. Firstbanc Financial service limited
  15. Freight Consult (GH) limited
  16. G4s Security Services (Ghana) limited
  17. Ghana Free Zones Board
  18. Ghana Home Loans
  19. Ghana National Chamber of commerce
  20. Ghana Oil Company ltd (Goil)
  21. Ghana Shippers Authority
  22. Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) limited
  23. Guinness Ghana breweries limited
  24. HFC Boafo
  25. IBM Ghana ltd
  26. IFS Financial Services limited
  27. Insight (Grey) Advertising
  28. Internet Solutions Ghana
  29. A Plant Pool GH. Ltd
  30. L’aine Services Limited
  31. Legacy group
  32. Margins group
  33. Mcottley Holdings
  34. MDS Lancet lab. Ghana ltd
  35. Meqasa limited
  36. National Health Insurance Authority
  37. National Lottery Authority
  38. Netis Ghana ltd
  39. Newrest Ghana ltd
  40. Ninani Group
  41. Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (Ghana) ltd
  42. Omni Bank
  43. Persol systems limited
  44. Petra trust company
  45. Premium bank
  46. PZ Cussons limited
  47. Ramani distribution company limited
  48. Rockesters roofing systems ltd
  49. Sahel Sahara bank (BSIC GH. Ltd)
  50. Samsung electronics West Africa ltd
  51. Stanbic bank Ghana limited
  52. Starwin Products limited
  53. Teachers fund
  54. Teksol limited
  55. Tigo business
  56. Txt Ghana limited
  57. Unibank (Ghana) limited
  58. United Pension trustees
  59. Wakanow.com
  60. Wapic insurance Ghana ltd

By: citifmonline.com/Ghana