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The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has received the Business Initiative Directors, World Quality Commitment Award (International Gold Star Category) AT THE World Quality Commitment Convention, in Paris last month. The award, which was received by George Aboagye, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), on behalf of GIPC, is in recognition of quality and excellence in customer satisfaction, leadership and innovation. GIPC received the award on the basis of World Quality Commitment regulations and criteria of the QC100 Total Quality Management Model. Companies selected, some listed in the Global Fortune 500, have all demonstrated Global Fortune 500, have all demonstrated excellence in leadership within each designated sector, increased market share, improved results, as well as sustainability. The selection for the award was on the basis of information obtained through correspondence and Online Poll Surveying of over 9,000 companies, conducted by Business Initiative Directions (BID), a leading independent organisation in the area of leadership and customer satisfaction based in Madrids Spain. Incidentally, this is the second time a public institution from Ghana has won such an award. The Ghana Free Zones Board in March 2001, under the leadership of the same George Aboagye, won a similar award in recognition of quality and excellence in private sector development in Africa. The 2009 award ceremony, which was presided over by Jose F. Prieto, President and CEO of BID, was in recognition of the corporate entities as symbols of commitment to spreading quality culture in leadership, technology and innovation which make them models for other companies of their sectors in the 53 countries they represented.