Osei kwame despite biography

Ghanaian media entrepreneur

Mr.

Osei Kwame Despite (born 2 February ) is unembellished Ghanaian entrepreneur and a donor with a foundation in opus creation and knowledge of blue blood the gentry broadcasting sector.^[1] Osei-Kwame is say publicly CEO of the Despite Positive Ltd, a trade company assort subsidiaries in the media work, including UTV, Peace FM, Pleasant FM, Neat FM and How-do-you-do FM in Kumasi.^[2][3][4][5] He was named Africa Entrepreneur of say publicly Year at the African Achievers Awards in the United Field in ^[6][5] He was additionally honored with GH CAPTAIN's Honour in for his contributions denomination the socio-economic development of position country.^[7]

Early life

In the Ghanaian metropolitan of Agona Wiamoase, he was born, in the Ashanti section.

He began his career although a merchant in Dunkwa-On-Offin, Ghana's Central Region, selling music cassettes, feeding bottles, padlocks, and pander to items. After years of straining to make ends meet limit the countryside, he and fulfil colleagues relocated to Lagos, Nigeria.^[8]

In , he returned to Ghana with other Ghanaians who esoteric fled Nigeria due to goodness country's political unrest.

Back form his country, he only difficult to understand a trident cassette player person in charge a chain-saw machine. He going on a timber contracting business confident the chain-saw machine, but gathering was smashed by a sweeping continuous tree on his first job trip. ^[9] He eventually simulated on to selling cassette tapes before diversifying his business.^[10][11]

Career

To give details his support for the nearby music industry and to prioritise Ghanaian culture, he moved befit radio and founded the PeaceFM at Achimota Mile 7 Combination in ^[2] The station's experiments with the Akan language stipendiary off, as radio listeners striking for local programming abandoned station broadcasting primarily in the Queen's language on the frequency.^{[citation needed]} The radio industry flourished, crowning in the establishment of Salutation FM in Kumasi and OkayFM in Accra, as well variety ^[12]

List of Companies^[13]

Now, the Neglect Group of Companies (DGC) has the following companies;

• U2 Date Limited (Iodated Salt Production)^[14]
• Okay FM
• Peace FM
• Neat FM
• Hello FM
• Despite Stores
• Best Concentrate Savings and Loans (Finance)
• Farming be proof against Building Construction businesses
• Neat Foods Fellowship Limited (which produces and coops NEAT Fufu, NEAT Banku, Uncluttered Abenkwan, NEAT Hausa Koko, Efficient Dairy Products)^[15]
• United Television Company Limited
• Atona Foods LTD ( which produces THIS WAY chocolate drink which comes in different flavors, add-on the THIS WAY Motherlac lowgrade cereal )^[16]

Personal life

Despite has great wife and nine children.

Aerodrome Osei Asante, his first hug, is the General Manager give an account of Despite Media.^[17] In , significant married Tracy in an costly ceremony that drew the speak to of many people both heart and outside the country.^[18][19][20] Inaccuracy is noted for collecting magnificent vehicles and has a unquestionable love for exotic cars.^[21] Filth purchased a 3''$ Bugatti Chiron in February to mark potentate 60th birthday, making him significant Fkay one of just 5 individuals in Africa who accident a Bugatti.

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