The Management of
While operating in different sectors of the national economy, the management of the two institutions agree that collaboration will help lubricate the engine of growth in the strategic interest of
This point was reiterated when the Managing Director (MD) of
"Partnerships like this would be very useful. You are the most dominant media institution in the country and I think, we coming from the same mother, it is important that we cooperate and collaborate in business and social events,"
He acknowledged that both the banking and the media industries have been evolving, very fast, adding, strategies are needed to take businesses to the next level and see how we can support each other.
"We want to play a role in making sure that you get there. More importantly, there are also things that we can look at together and you can also help us disseminate what GCB wants to do along our various businesses," he said.
"The disruption with COVID-19 and what has happened forced banks to get more digital to reach their customers. So those days when we had armchair bankers who sat in the office and waited for the customer to queue outside are long gone and it will even change more in the coming years," he explained.
He said that was one of the reasons why he was reaching out to the GCGL, which was one of its customers, to find out how the Bank could be of help to the company in the coming years.
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"As an ongoing relationship, we will obviously be looking at upping the ante on both sides. We appreciate the services that you have rendered to us over the decades," he said.
"Graphic is now doing thought leadership programmes in partnership with other stakeholders. Additionally, because of the traditional base of print, the leaders of this business over time saw it fit to venture into the printing, publishing and packaging business which led to the establishment of the subsidiary company GPAK," he said.
He said the GCGL also partnered another company to establish a courier services company that was into nationwide delivery.
"The company also, through partnership, has renovated and expanded its clinic which used to serve only staff and family to now serve the entire public," he stated.
Furthermore, he said the company had some physical assets that it intends to develop and was therefore in discussion with some partners in that regard.
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