Dangote Cement on Sunday, 24 November won the 2019 PEARL Award for Sectoral Leadership in Industrial Goods (Building Materials).

The PEARL Awards for the Nigerian Capital Market was on the theme: “Celebrating Sustainable Leadership and Resilience.”

According to the organisers, the annual PEARL Awards is a national corporate showpiece event where quoted companies and key stakeholders in the capital and financial markets of the Nigerian economy are rewarded for their contributions to economic development.

The Awards was instituted in 1995 and endorsed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the apex Capital Market regulatory authority.

Dangote Cement is a Nigerian multinational publicly traded cement manufacturer headquartered in Lagos. The company is engaged in the manufacture, preparation, import, packaging, and distribution of cement and related products in Nigeria and has plants or import terminals in nine other African countries.