For the second year in a row Etosha Fishing Corporation managed
to walk away with top honours at the NSI National Quality Awards Ceremony,
being awarded first prize in the
Large Enterprise
Company of the year 2015 category. It also won in the
Large
Enterprise Product of the year 2015 and
Large
Enterprise Exporter of the year 2015 categories.
At
the Namibian Manufacturers Association (NMA) awards ceremony also held in
October, Etosha Fishing was awarded Gold in the
Corporate Manufacturer of the Year category, Silver in the
Most Environmentally Friendly Manufacturer
of the Year and Bronze in the
Ambassador
for Manufacturing category.
“With the right team one can achieve great things,” MD of
Etosha Fishing Pieter Greeff said at the event held in Windhoek on 15 October
2015. He praised his staff for their commitment and hard work in making Etosha
Fishing a top Quality Company.
Etosha Fishing broke ground in recent years with the
introduction of Namibia’s first canned horse mackerel product range called
“EFUTA Maasbanker”, the first Namibian canned product to receive the NSI
Standard Mark of Conformity product endorsement. It also carries Halaal
Certification and is a proudly Namibian product displaying the Team Namibia
logo. It was successfully introduced to the Namibian retail market, now available
on the shelves of all major retailers, and also continue to achieve huge success
as an export product to other southern African markets.
EFUTA Maasbanker was first canned in 2013 in response to
repeated calls by the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources for employment
creation and value addition in this sector, which is directly in line with the
Government’s Vision 2030 and NDP4 policy framework. Moreover, the venture allowed
for a more sustainable business operation with longer term employment for more
Namibians. It also materialised Etosha Fishing’s vision of putting the country’s
most valuable fish resource in a can, offering the nation an affordable,
nutritious meal from the sea.
The NSI National Quality Awards is aimed at recognizing
industries, enterprises and individuals who perform excellent on quality.The awards seek to motivate producers to put
quality as the central focus of all their productions and to put quality at the
forefront of their marketing agenda.
According to the NSI, the Quality Company of the Year Award is
bestowed on registered companies which best reflect full commitment to
applicable local and international high quality production practices and standards
/ norms.
The Namibian Exporter of the Year Award relates to a company
or organisation that has made significant progress in commencing or expanding
exports to new or wider markets by introducing quality in their company.
Etosha Fishing will now challenge the other winners from the
SADC Region at the Annual SADC Quality Awards later one this year.
Photo
caption: Receiving the reward for
Large Enterprise Company of the year, Large Enterprise Product of the
year and
Large Enterprise Exporter of
the year 2015, Etosha Fishing MD Pieter Greeff (centre) is seen here flanked
by Etosha Fishing Quality
Manager Estelle van Dyk (on
his left) and Assistant Quality
Manager Gisbertus Nakale (far
left). The awards were handed over by
Deputy Minister of Industrialization, Trade and SME Development, Hon Piet van
der Walt and NSI CEO Chie Wasserfall (right)