La Casera Managing Director, Chinedum Okereke Bags National Productivity Award

Chinedum Okereke, the Managing Director of The La Casera Company (TLCC) has been honoured with the National Productivity Order of Merit Award (NPOM) for his three decades of illustrious service to the food and beverage industry at a ceremony chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday. The Award was classified under the employers of labour category.

At the event which was held at the Banquet Hall in the State House Asokoro Abuja, President Buhari admonished all awardees to see their recognition as a call for more hard work and commitment to the development of human resources that are needed to maintain socio-economic growth and development in Nigeria urging them to make productivity their watchword, saying ‘‘this award should spur you to greater heights.’’

The National Productivity Order of Merit Award is an Award of honour and dignity instituted by the Government to recognize hard work and excellence. The recognition of the Awardees was completed after a rigorous process of assessment of individuals and institutions that were nominated. In his remarks, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige said since the inception of the award in 1991, 382 individuals and 97 organisations have been honoured with the NPOM.

The La Casera Company appointed Okereke a top supply chain and operations expertise as the Managing Director of the Company effective November 2018. Okereke was the former Managing Director at Suntory Foods & Beverages Nigeria and also a General Manager at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria Plc.

Chinedum’s leadership acumen and business prowess earned him the award of the Best FMCG CEO back to back in the year 2020 and 2021. He has led The La Casera Company to win several awards, growing the business volume by over 500% in 4 years making TLCC the 3rd biggest soft drink company in the country.

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Source: Legit.ng