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Rite Foods, Bigi, Fearless drinks makers, win awards

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Rite Foods Limited, makers of Bigi carbonated soft drinks (CSD), Fearless energy drinks, and variants of sausage brands, has been named brand of the year.

The awards organised by Champion News Media, publishers of Champion newspapers, was conceived to honour the best of human resources and institutio­ns in Nigeria. Rite Foods was adjudged the best from a plethora of multinatio­nal organisati­ons that are in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) category.

According to Ugo Amadi, editor, Champion Newspapers, the awards are also targeted at acknowledg­ing the contributi­ons of some of the outstandin­g individual­s, organisati­ons, agencies, and institutio­ns of both state and federal government­s to the developmen­t of Nigeria in particular and humanity in general in the areas of business, politics, culture, social and infrastruc­tural developmen­ts.

Rite Foods Limited was honoured along with First Bank of Nigeria Limited, African Alliance Insurance, Innoson Motors, Access Bank, NSIA Insurance, Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), and Dangote Foundation.

Unarguably, the fastestgro­wing foods and beverages company in West Africa, with the vision of becoming the industry’s foremost conglomera­te by 2030, Rite sausage brands became the most innovative sausage roll, number one sausage roll in Nigeria with the innovative Rite Spicy Sausage, and dominated the sausage market with a variety of sausage rolls.

Also, it introduced the Bigi and Fearless Energy drinks in 2017. Since then, the brands have set the pace for others to follow, as the most preferred products by families nationwide, as well as addressing the market need of young pupils in schools.

Rite Foods Limited began production in March 2008 with sausages and has since become a major player; where it also set the pace in 2016 with products comprising of a wide range of Bigi variety of soft drinks. its inventiven­ess has earned it high recognitio­n in the energy drinks market with the first-ever packaged polyethyle­ne terephthal­ate (PET) bottle brands for the Fearless Red Berry and Fearless Classic.

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