THE CAPITAL & Credit Financial Group (CCFG) headed by Ryland Campbell has been awarded the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's Job Creation Award in recognition of the group's contribution to the Jamaica economy through the creation of job opportunities.
The award was accepted on CCFG's behalf by Mrs. Jennifer Anderson, vice-president human resource development, at a recent function.
The PSOJ's Job Creation Award recognises companies or entrepreneurs who have made new investments that have led to the creation of a number of new jobs. In the last six months, Capital & Credit has employed more than twenty-five officers to fill a wide range of positions created by the group's continued growth and expansion.
The criteria for the PSOJ's Job Creation Award stipulates that
the additional employment should have been achieved through the financial investment that has created expansion and new opportunities;
the company should be private sector owned and that
jobs should not have been created "simply through the acquisition of an existing business."
The Capital & Credit Financial Group, through its flagship company, Capital & Credit Merchant Bank, is marking its tenth anniversary this year. In welcoming the PSOJ Job Creation Award, chairman of the group, Ryland T. Campbell, underlined the importance of the human capital in Capital & Credit's continued success. He noted that at its recent tenth anniversary function, the group honoured some 33 employees for length of service and outstanding achievements.
Mr. Campbell added that the group's continued success reflects its management strategy of accelerating its core business through diversification of income stream along geographic, products and currency lines.
The PSOJ Award for Job Creation is made each month to companies throughout the island and across a wide range of industries, which have contributed to the Jamaican economy through job creation. The Capital & Credit Financial Group was one of three companies recognised in August.
