By Olamide FAKEYE
Nigeria – The Management of Newstar Metal International Limited, NSMIL, Lagos, recently held its end of the year stakeholders/suppliers interactive session and engagement.
The annual interactive season, held at the company’s Corporate Headquarters in Lagos, usually provides a unique opportunity for the management of the company and stakeholders to reflect on business activities within the year with a view to projecting for future growth and shared prosperity.
The annual event also provides an avenue for both stakeholders to discuss issues of mutual concern.
Most importantly, the forum aims at strengthening the operational capacity of company, promoting robust partnerships and expanding business frontiers of the various stakeholders.
At the town hall meeting, the suppliers are given the opportunity to review their business activities within the year through which the company gets feedback about their peculiar challenges and strategize for possible areas of intervention and assistance.
In his welcome address, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company, Alhaji Sulaimon, while setting the pace for fruitful conversations, expressed delight at the presence and participation of the stakeholders, saying: “The forum is not just an opportunity to celebrate our collaboration but also a platform to explore innovative ideas, address challenges and align our goals for a brighter, more sustainable future. Your insights and expertise are invaluable as we navigate the evolving demands of our industry”.
The suppliers/stakeholders, one after the other, while drawing attention to some of the identified challenges hampering their operations, expressed their gratitude and appreciation to the Management of the Newstar Metal International Limited for its commitment to implementing corporate social responsibilities, formulating and executing endearing corporate practices that promote small scale businesses, fidelity to customer-friendly policies and best industrial practices that have added value and promoted their corporate entities.
NSMIL Global Concept Manager, Opeyemi Alimi in his address, re-emphasized MD’s earlier admonitions, enjoins suppliers to keep faith with company policies, regularize and formalize their businesses, particularly company registration with relevant government agencies in compliance with industrial regulations, for ease of operations and access to enjoy imbedded benefits.
In his submission, the company’s SON Consultant, Mazi Colman Obasi, acknowledged the support and cooperation of stakeholders to the company’s growth, commended the management’s resilience to remain afloat in spite of the Nigeria’s challenging economic situation and appealed to stakeholders to formalize and regularize their business operations to position them for future growth.
Closing, the Manager for Pet Company, Quadri Sulaimon, while delivering the Vote of Thanks, expressed delight at the presence of the stakeholders, the successful and impactful deliberations, the exchange of ideas and projections the forum has thus achieved, hoping that the gains of the engagement will yield maximum impact on business activities and galvanize shared prosperity for all in the years ahead.
