Lafarge Africa emerges best environmentally-sustainable firm at SERAS

Lafarge Africa emerges best environmentally-sustainable firm at SERAS

Lafarge Africa emerges best environmentally-sustainable firm at SERAS

LAFARGE Africa Plc. has been adjudged the best
company in environmental sustainability, best
company in sustainability reporting, and overall
second runner-up at the 2015 edition of the
Social Enterprise Report Awards (SERAs).
The Nigeria CSR award otherwise known
as the SERAs, this year, recognized
socially responsible firms under the
theme ‘Building Partnership for a
Sustainable Future’.
Indeed, Lafarge Africa according to a
statement won the first award category
as the Best Company in Environmental
Sustainability, which had three other
nominees including GTBank Plc., FCMB
and Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE),
while equally emerging the best
company in Sustainability Reporting
with nominations into eleven different
award categories.
Speaking on the awards conferred on the
company, Group Managing Director/
Chief Executive Offcer, Lafarge Africa
Plc., Peter Hoddinott, said adding value
to its host communities and the lives of
Nigerians remains the core of the
company’s CSR interventions, while
assuring that “the awards will spur
Lafarge Africa Plc. to remain committed
to sustainable social investments across
the country, particularly in the areas of
health and safety, environment, youth
empowerment and provision of
infrastructure.