SOPECAM Kribi: Office services to be two-fold

The Commercial and Marketing Agency will not only hinge on scaling up the company's turnover, but will also inform and educate the population on happenings around.

The seaside town of Kribi in the Ocean Division of the South Region is the first to host a Commercial and Marketing Agency of the Cameroon News and Publishing Corporation. The Mokolo neighbourhood of the industrial town, which hosts the company's new office, witnessed an unprecedented crowd recently.

The event was the inauguration of the Commercial and Marketing Agency with the Deputy General Manager of SOPECAM, Shey Peter Mabu, chairing on behalf of the company's boss, Marie Claire Nnana.

Customers in the Ocean Division can hence subscribe and receive the bilingual daily, Cameroon Tribune as well as the magazines; "Nyanga" and the "Weekend Sports and Loisirs" as often as needed through the agency. Those willing to have their books, diaries, calendars, ceremonial information sheets, fliers, notebooks, newspapers and receipt booklets, amongst others printed, can ably place orders and be served from the Kribi marketing pool.

Those wishing to gain national, regional and continental recognition can easily pay for advertorials and have them written at the newly inaugurated commercial agency. Authors in this part of the country yearning for international visibility have also been invited to take advantage of the carefully-placed marketing agency to create impact.

Better late than never, the Deputy General Manager of SOPECAM told guests at the inauguration ceremony. Shey Peter Mabu said SOPECAM's presence in Kribi was explained by the town's growing industrial strength. He encouraged business persons to invest in quality, citing the KBA COMET printing press as the company's flagbearer.

The machine prints over 75,000 newspapers copies an hour. It is one of its kind in the Central African Sub-region as well as in French speaking Africa. "The KBA COMET is our pride," Shey Peter Mabu said, challenging investors to place their trust in the company.

The First Assistant Divisional Officer for the Ocean, Charles Aurélien Bertrand Mbonjo, told the management of SOPECAM that the division was rich, with hidden treasure. It was therefore incumbent on the team in Kribi to comb the nooks and crannies of the town to harness wealth capable of changing the face of the company. He urged Kribi-based companies to enjoy the fruit of proximity as offered by SOPECAM.

The Secretary General in the Kribi City Council, Jacob Medjo Assako, said getting a copy of Cameroon Tribune has in the past been a daunting task. To him, the timeliness of the opening of the marketing agency fulfils the wishes of the people of the division to receive quality information. He said it was nightmarish, before sending coverage requests as well as placements for pull outs to Douala, Ebolowa or Yaounde.