Kasapreko joins league of ISO certified companies

With over 28 years of existence, Kasapreko Company Limited is unambiguously a step beyond excellence as it can confidently boast about been among the aristocratic beverage companies to be certified to ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management.

31st January 2018 marked a historic day on the company’s calendar. The board of directors and management of Kasapreko Company Limited called upon the press to issue the statement about their newly acquired ISO. This means that every product that is produced by the company goes through a system of strict food safety checks right from procurement of raw materials to release of the finished products to ensure that the product is safe according to the national and international standards under supervision of SGS. SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company.

Addressing the press the head of the company, Mr. Adjei ranked the company stands tall in the alcoholic beverage industry but over the past two years, they have ventured into water as well as soft drink. As it stands, Kasapreko is the only (first) beverage company to acquire or attain the ISO certification in Ghana. For the company, they see this as a great step because many local companies, particularly beverage companies in Ghana do not consider quality as essential and quality is what has driven a lot of international companies to drive out local competition. The company could have done it’s own in house quality certification, but because they care about quality, they went a step further to invite SGS to do the auditing and get them the ISO certification.

The certification has given a big stamp to the quality system they have, at the same time the quality products that the company produces. The certification also gives confidence to the consumers that from now on, any product they purchase from the company is certified at the best beverage conditions, also it gives the company a competitive edge in the international market. The certification comes with a lot of benefits, some of which are products of kasapreko can be sold in any airline in the world and international market.

To add up to what the manager said, quality manager laid emphasis on the fact that quality is what has driven the company this far. As a matter of fact, ISO triggers 3 major intent for the company; how they meet customer expectation is very paramount, ensure that their processes they have to go through to be able to produce the products are solid and to meet every regulatory requirement that governs what they do as a beverage company.

Reasons for the ISO certification;
1. Enhance the company’s image and reputation,
2. improve customer satisfaction,
3. Obtain efficiency of processes and smoother running operations,
4. Improve decision making by basing them on data from quality and food safety management.
5. Create culture of continual improvement of processes
6. Improve employee engagement towards process improvement
7. Increase competitveness both locally and internationally.
You can now count on Kasapreko Company Limited to match up to the the level of international safety of all their products.

(Story: John Claude Tamakloe)