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Gtext Global, a leading digital marketing firm is planning to list on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in the next five years.
After 10 years of operation, the firm has expanded into four Continents; which are Africa, Europe,USA and Middle East. It has several subsidiaries- Gtext Homes, Gtext Media, Gtext Soft, Gtext Farm, GtextPrint.
Consequently, the company plans to celebrate its 10th anniversary, thanking God for hard work, dogged commitment and to encourage entrepreneurs that they can grow organically.
“In the next five years we are positioning ourselves to go to the capital and that is why we have begun to invest in brand ambassadors. We are rebranding for global audience”, Stephen Akintayo, managing director/CEO said.
The firm’s staff strength both volunteer and non-volunteer is close to 100 and has trained over 1,000 people in real estate.
Speaking about the company’s achievements, Akintayo said, “This year we are paying tuition fees of 1000 kids. We have raised entrepreneurs in hundreds and thousands across Africa. We have trained over three million people online, physically we have trained over 100 thousand people in different opportunities entrepreneurship skills”.
“We are expanding into critical sectors that are labour intensive. We can be the channel of helping a lot of Nigerians. One of those sectors we are taking serious in terms of our future is real estate. We are currently, at the verge signing brand ambassadors, which most of them would be unveiled at our 10th year anniversary. We are taking that industry by the horn because we believe it has a lot of potentials”.
“We want be able to give back more. We want to strengthen our foundation as it has purely been more of our company’s contribution thus far”, he told journalists in Lagos.
Gtext Global ‘s plan this year is to start construction of its orphanage home called Mercy orphanage home which would costs about N180 million.
He said the real estate company, Gtext Homes has donated four acres of land to Infinity Foundation for the construction of the orphanage home.
“We want to take certain sectors by the horn, particularly sectors that have the potential of creating jobs. We have a foundation we started 10 years ago called Infinity Foundation. In the last 10 years, we have directly and indirectly sponsored 5,000 children to school, giving bursary awards and scholarship to children. We have worked with 25 orphanages and charity homes in addition to several projects we have done”, Akintayo added.
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