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Nigeria<br />

LNG<br />

Limited<br />

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COSCHARIS GROUP<br />

Top 50 brands profile<br />

Access Bank Plc is the Bank of best practice<br />

with consistent growth in all key<br />

performance indicators over the past 7 years.<br />

They serve over two million customers from<br />

130 branches located in all major<br />

commercial centres and cities across Nigeria<br />

and eight other African countries (Burundi,<br />

Cote D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of<br />

Congo, Ghana, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, The<br />

Gambia, Zambia), and the United Kingdom.<br />

Access Bank is currently one of the largest<br />

banks in Nigeria with shareholder's funds in<br />

excess of N185billion, Assets and<br />

Contingents in excess of N850billion, and a<br />

deposit base in excess of N450billion. The<br />

bank has a national risk assessment rating of:<br />

BBB- by Fitch Ratings Ltd (New York); A- by<br />

Standard & Poors; AA, As an emerging<br />

leader in Africa; Access Bank seeks not only<br />

to rank amongst the top 3 Nigerian Banking<br />

Groups, but also to become a major catalyst<br />

for growth across the African continent.<br />

Access bank got a banking license in 1988 and was incorporated as a<br />

privately owned commercial bank in 1989.<br />

The bank became a public Limited Liability Company in 1998 and was listed<br />

on the floor of Nigeria stock exchange<br />

With recent acquisition of the former Intercontinental Bank in January 2012,<br />

Access Bank is one of the four largest commercial banks in Nigeria with over<br />

5.7 million customers, 309 branches and over 1,600 Automated Teller<br />

Machines (ATMs).<br />

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited),<br />

a leading mobile telecommunication<br />

services provider in Nigeria and a<br />

member of Airtel Africa Group, is<br />

committed to providing innovative,<br />

exciting, affordable and quality mobile<br />

services to Nigerians. The company<br />

made history on August 5, 2001 by<br />

becoming the first telecoms operator to<br />

launch commercial GSM services in<br />

Nigeria and has scored a series of many<br />

"firsts" in the highly competitive<br />

Nigerian telecommunications market<br />

including the first to introduce toll-free<br />

24-hour customer care; first to launch<br />

service in all the six geo-political zones<br />

in the country; first to introduce<br />

affordable recharge denominations;<br />

first to introduce monthly free SMS and<br />

first to introduce monthly airtime<br />

bonus.<br />

Airtel has a rich blend of products and<br />

services, including a loaded bouquet of<br />

Value Added Services designed to<br />

support the growth and sustenance of<br />

businesses, and enhance the<br />

effectiveness and efficiency of<br />

individuals. This is part of its vision of<br />

ensuring that affordable telecoms<br />

solutions are provided for different<br />

classes of Nigerians, with particular<br />

attention to age groups, income levels<br />

and lifestyles, preferences and<br />

requirements.<br />

Social responsibility in Airtel is not<br />

limited to a concern with welfare<br />

schemes, charity work, or the<br />

occasional support for Health,<br />

Education, Security/Emergency, Sports,<br />

and the Arts. The company perceives<br />

and positions itself as an integral part of<br />

society, which must be socially<br />

responsible at all times in all its dealings<br />

etcetera<br />

Airtel is currently partnering with the<br />

government in the provision of<br />

education for less privileged children.<br />

Airtel has initiated a partnership with<br />

the Ministry of Education to build and<br />

maintain schools. The school adoption<br />

programmes involves, renovation,<br />

provision of school books, uniforms,<br />

and bags for school children etc. This<br />

has been done in many states across<br />

Nigeria.<br />

Since 2003 when awards started in the<br />

telecoms sector in Nigeria, Airtel has<br />

consistently walked home with the Best<br />

Customer Care Operator of the Year<br />

awards.<br />

Most Customer Sensitive Network by<br />

Handwriting on the Wall of Thisday<br />

Newspapers - 2003.Best Customer<br />

Care Operator (2005 and 2006) by<br />

Telecoms Awards, GSM Company of<br />

the Year 2005, by City People, and the<br />

Best Customer Care Mobile Company<br />

(2006) by IT & Telecoms Digest. Best<br />

Customer Care Award for 2009 by<br />

Nigerian Information Technology and<br />

Telecom Awards (NITTA). Telecom<br />

Network with the Best Customer Care<br />

Service prize,<br />

Best customer care operator award in<br />

last year's edition of Telecoms Awards<br />

2013- Most Innovative Company, Brand<br />

of the Year and Consumer Friendly<br />

Operator of the year Awards Nigerian<br />

Telecoms Awards. The Chartered<br />

Institute of Personnel Management<br />

(CIPM) adjudged the Telecoms<br />

Operator with the Airtel the Best<br />

Human Resources Practices.<br />

The<br />

Journal<br />

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