Coca-Cola Begins Management Challenge

Coca-Cola Nigeria has further reinforced its commitment to harnessing the underlying potential of Nigerian youths as the beverage giant commenced the Global Management Challenge (GMC) for the first time in Nigeria, playing a lead sponsor role. The Global Management Challenge is the largest Strategy and Management Competition in the world. It’s the largest international event based on business simulations, with more than 500, 000 university students and company managers participating in this event throughout the world. The competition which is a virtual business simulation kicked-off recently at the University of Lagos and has eighty students with not less than a CGPA of 4.30 across different departments from the institution sponsored by Coca-Cola. They will compete for the team to represent Nigeria in the upcoming international final in Dubai in April 2018. Speaking at the event, Public Affairs and Communications Manager for Coca-Cola, Nwamaka Onyemelukwe, applauded the participating students on the life-changing opportunity given to them with the initiative, emphasising that the competition will further prepare the students even better for the outside world after graduation. “Doing the right things requires knowledge, understanding and experience. This competition will offer the perfect synergy between knowledge, intelligence and the right experience to be good managers in the future. I will like everyone involved in this great competition to open their minds as this will be very helpful not just in school but also in the future,” she said.