According to the 2014 Brand Africa 100 rankings of the most
valuable and most admired brands in sub-Saharan Africa released recently, DIL
with a brand value of $253 million was ranked 36 in admiration and 76 in terms
of brand value.
The ranking did not come as a surprise as DIL has presence
in about 15 African countries which has made the brand more visible to the
local populace. President/Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Ltd, Aliko
Dangote was recently ranked among the World’s most powerful 72 people by Forbes
Magazine. The continent’s foremost billionaire is listed as the 68th most
powerful person in the world, and is one of only two Africans to appear on this
year’s list.
The magazine ranked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
as Africa’s most powerful man. He ranks 51st on the power list. According to
its ranking of the World’s Most Powerful People, Dangote is the second most
powerful man in Africa.
The Magazine writing on Dangote stated, “heralded by some as
the face of the new Nigeria, Africa’s richest man is looking beyond cement,
sugar and flour — the three commodities that built his fortune — to the oil
business. In April he announced $9 billion in financing from a consortium of
local and international lenders to construct a private oil refinery and
fertilizer and petrochemical complex in the country.”
It should be recalled that Consumer News and Business
Channel (CNBC) recently ranked Dangote as one of the 25 most influential people
in the world in terms of having a profound impact on business and finance. A
CNBC spokesman said: “They have disrupted industries, sparked change and
exercised an influence far beyond their own companies. As CNBC embarks on its
second quarter-century, it faces a world completely altered from when it
started.
In its latest survey CNBC, global financial and business
outfit ranked Dangote as 23th among the first 25 people who have impacted the
business world most since 1989. Apple Computers founder Steve Jobs topped the
list followed by, Bill Gates, with other names on the list including Ben
Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.
Other notable names on the 25-man list included Jeff Bezos,
Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Bogle, Larry Ellison,
Rupert Murdoch, Jack Welch, Narayana Murthy, Howard Schuldt, Bernard Arnault
and Li Ka-shing. Also on the list are Carl Icahn, Meg Whitman, Amancio Ortega,
Michael Bloomberg, Sandy Weill, Cher Wang, Martha Stewart and Carlos Slim.
The prestigious TIME Magazine in 2013 named Dangote among
the100 most influential persons on earth.
Bill Gate, Microsoft Founder and Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda
Gate wrote a tribute in honour of Dangote in commemoration of his listing by
the Time magazine. Gate dwelled extensively on the philanthropic gestures of
the President of the Dangote Group in the areas of health especially polio
eradication and job creation efforts.
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