Cocoa Merchants Ghana Limited has announced its keenness to assume the position of most preferred licenced cocoa-buying company and partner in the supply of best-quality cocoa beans in the country.

The Company, established in July 1998, has over the years chalked up a lot of significant successes in the cocoa industry, and is currently on record as having invested about GH¢2.1million in the last two years for expansion of operations to deepen its reach to cocoa farmers across the country.

The performance of the Company despite some challenges during the last cocoa season is said to have been exceptionally remarkable, as it was noted to have been the period within which the Company supplied the least ‘discrepant cocoa beans’ to the ports.

Nana Amo Adade Boamah, Managing Director, Cocoa Merchants, attributed this success to the strategic investment made in educating purchasing clerks and district managers often in direct contact with the cocoa farmers.

He revealed that the Company has initiated moves to collaborate with the Ghana Police Service to fight fraudulent practices in the industry. He contended that by so doing, a lot more profit can be realised from the production of cocoa in the country.

He commended the staff and all workers of the Company as well as the dedicated cocoa farmers across the operational territories of the Cocoa Merchants, who he said contribute in diverse ways to the Company’s success.

These were made known at a ceremony organised in Kumasi to award staff and workers of Cocoa Merchants Ghana Limited who excelled during the 2012/13 cocoa season.

The about-88 employees were presented with various items including citations, flat-screen television sets, laptop computers and tricycles among others in recognition of their hard work and dedication to the Company. The awardees, selected nationwide, were mainly made up of regional and district managers, port officers and purchasing clerks.

An awardee, Mr. Ben Effah Nuamah, a purchasing clerk from the WassaAkropong District and member of the Wassa Esikuma society, told B&FT his commitment to the Company among many other things stems from the promptness Cocoa Merchants always attaches to addressing concerns of workers at all levels.

He was highly enthusiastic and hopeful that a lot more incentives will be included in the awards to continuously encourage workers of the Company to deliver more.