1. IBM West Africa
“You continue to impress us with your work.
Thank you for being ever so diligent."
-Frederick Udoaka, Regional Manager, IBM West Africa
XLR8 bore
communications in Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia
and Sierra Leone between January 2005 and
April 2007. XLR8 in that period, significantly
revved up the IBM brand name and
re-established visibility for it especially among
the key business markets. IBM considerably
upstaged its competition in the ICT industry in
the area of visibility, with attendant positive
spin-offs on its revenues and bottomline.
responsibility for managing IBM's
Reference: Mr. Frederick Udoaka, Regional
Manager,
IBM West Africa (fredu@za.ibm.com)
2. MTN Nigeria
XLR8 won in May 2007, a competitive bid
involving Nigeria's leading communications
consultancies, for the corporate
communications consulting portfolio of
MTN Nigeria, easily Nigeria's most
formidable corporate brand.
XLR8 has been responsible, since May
2007 for managing MTN's corporate
communications, to growing acclaim
within the company.
XLR8 is also responsible for managing the
communications of MTN Foundation, the
corporate social investment vehicle of
MTN Nigeria.
3. Unity Bank Plc
XLR8 was appointed by Unity Bank in July
2007 to oversee the entire communications
management of its products portfolio. XLR8
implemented an integrated mix of
communication activities that included a first
ever privately organized Durbar in Nigeria, in
the process attaining considerable product
awareness at launch even while shoring up
corporate brand visibility and enhancing brand
performance. The bank's share price went up
by about 60 percent during the
implementation of these activities.
4. Nokia
“XLR8, you're always ahead of your game. Keep up
the good work"
- Vithesh Reddy,
Area Manager, Nigeria, Ghana,
Liberia, Nokia Customer and Market Operations
XLR8 was appointed, in September 2005,
by Nokia to manage its public relations in
Nigeria. Nokia's maiden XLR8-organized
media interactive sessions were attended
by the cream of journalists in Nigeria –
including editors, editorial board chairmen,
line editors and reporters.
In April 2006, XLR8 organized Nokia's
formal launch activities in Nigeria and
continued to bear responsibility for Nokia's
public relations activities in Nigeria and
Ghana. XLR8 relinquished the Nokia account
at the end of August, 2006.
Despite relinquishing the Nokia account in
August, XLR8 was recruited by Nokia to
manage a telecom industry workshop, in
October 2006.
Reference: Mr. Vithesh Reddy, Area Manager, Nigeria,
Ghana and Liberia, Nokia Customer and Market
Operations vithesh.reddy@nokia.com
5. Cisco, Nigeria & Ghana
XLR8 has since April 2006 borne
responsibility for all of Cisco's
communications management in Nigeria
and Ghana. XLR8 managed Cisco's brand
launch on April 11, 2006 and is currently
driving efforts to enhance the brand's
visibility in Nigeria and Ghana.
Ref: Rose Bambi, Cisco Head of Communications, Africa and Levant Region
6. eTranzact Nigeria
eTranzact is the world's only multi-channel
e-payment platform. Its offices are located in the
UK, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. XLR8 developed a
new corporate pay off line, "your easier way to
pay" for this company and is responsible for all
of the firm's communications activities in Nigeria
Ref: Mr. Valentine Obi, Managing Director
valentine.obi@etranzact.net
7. Ericsson
XLR8 managed the corporate communications
portfolio of Ericsson West Africa from September
2005 to July 2007. Among our numerous
innovations for that organisation was the
creation of a corporate employee magazine for
the organisation which won international acclaim.
8. eNNOVATE Expo
XLR8 developed the concept of a technology and
added service expo in 2004. The expo, the only one of its
kind in Nigeria, has run annually since 2005 and besides
being actively supported by Government at both ministerial
and regulatory levels (Nigerian Communications
Commission), the expo continues to amass growing
corporate endorsement. Corporate participants in the past
include MTN, Ecobank, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, DHL,
Ericsson, Mtel, Starcomms, Reltel, Accelon, APC, among
many others.
9. Main One Cable Company
Main One Cable Company is a Nigerian-promoted company
which is currently laying a transatlantic fibre optic cable
from Portugal towards West Africa and thereafter to
Southern Africa. It recruited XLR8 in October 2008 to help
appropriately position the organization and the essence as
well as viability of the project among key stakeholders. XLR8
has done this consistently ever since and earned the praise
of Main One Cable Company
10. Multichoice Nigeria
XLR8 won the Multichoice Nigeria account in August 2008.
Multichoice is Nigeria’s leading Pay TV operator and XLR8 bears
responsibility for communications management consultancy not
only for the corporate Multichoice brand and the DStv platform,
but also for its content providers including Mnet and Supersport.
11. Stanbic IBTC Bank
XLR8 won in mid 2008, a competitive bid to manage the communications
portfolio of Stanbic IBTC Bank, a subsidiary of Standard Bank, Africa's biggest
banking institution with a presence in 33 countries across the world. The
company effectively began consulting for Stanbic IBTC and its subsidiary
companies including its Pension Funds Administrator arms, investment
management arms and others, in January 2009. Its work which has included
concept development and deployment of unique employee communication
vehicles and a novel customer communication magazine, have been severally
lauded by the organization.
