Tata Chemicals is the 2021 winner of the Company of the year award

by Odipo Riaga · November 25, 2021

Tata Chemicals Magadi Limited (TCML) has been named the Kenyan Company of the Year 2021 at the prestigious Kenya Institute of Management (KIM) Annual Company of the Year Awards (COYA).

The company also won awards in three major categories out of the seven namely: –

Leadership & Management
Innovation, ICT & Knowledge Management
Corporate citizenship & Environment focus

The annual COYA features top companies in Kenya with the list of past winners featuring several Blue-Chip organizations including Coca-Cola, Safaricom Ltd, Citibank and Toyota Kenya amongst others. TCML has won the KIM corporate citizenship and environmental focus at COYA on many previous occasions.

The seven awards categories include:

Leadership & Management
Innovation, ICT & Knowledge Management
Corporate citizenship & Environment focus
HR Focus
Productivity and Quality
Financial Management
Customer Orientation and Marketing

KIM has been running COYA Awards – a prestigious corporate event that recognizes organizations that have embraced Organizational Performance Index (OPI) Business Excellence framework. OPI is a business excellence tool modelled on the Malcolm Baldrige excellence framework for the last 18 years.

Managing Director Subodh Srivastav was full of praise of his management and staff for achieving this distinctive award saying that “This outstanding recognition of our Leadership and Management quality, Innovation, ICT and Knowledge Management and Corporate Citizenship and Environment Focus puts us on top of the best of the companies in Kenya. It demonstrates the quality with which we touch the lives of millions of people in Kenya and address pressing development challenges through innovative leadership and social programs that are replicable and scalable to maximize their impact and reach.”

He added that “Our community development programs represent our enduring commitment towards enriching the quality of life by touching the aspects of health, water, employment, education, environment and sustainability. Empowerment is our cross-cutting theme across all our initiatives targeted to create a positive impact to the communities we serve here and beyond.”

The Kenya Institute of Management (KIM) is a membership-based non-profit making professional management organization committed to the promotion of excellence and integrity in the practice of management. The Institute was established in 1954 as a premier institute that provides management consultancy and capacity building services to corporate organizations and other institutions.