Business
Dangote Splashes N800m On Distributors
Distributors of
Dangote Cement have been given a bonus of N800 million in recognition of their efforts to the success of the company in the 2012 financial year.
Handing the cheques to the distributors which ranged from N2 million to N60 million the chairman of Dangote Cement Plc, Aliko Dangote promised the distributors that such gestures from the company would increase in the future.
Dangote, while speaking at the Company’s Distributors’ Award Ceremony which was themed “Cementing Partnership”, he said the event was organised in appreciation of the distributors commitment and valuable contribution and distribution and sale of the product in 2012.
“It was the patronage of distributors and customers that has made Dangote cement profitable in the present cement market in Nigeria despite the increasingly intense competition in the industry”, he said.
He emphasised that the day marked the success story of the company while extolling the virtues of the distributors as the architects of the products getting to the customers as at when due.