Obinna Uzoh
OBINNA UZOH: UNIQUE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT
Obinna Uzoh, chief executive officer, Gocuz Group Limited, personifies the new spirit of entrepreneurship among Nigerian youths. More and more young people have discovered that they cannot wait for government and the existing big multinational firms to provide them a means of livelihood in the evolving economic terrain of Nigeria today. They have therefore taken their fate into their hands by starting ventures of their own.
Uzoh started building up Gocuz Group in 1987 and within 11 years has made giant strides that stand it out in the corporate world. Interestingly, Uzoh chose the high-tech market involving procurement and marketing of a wide range of technical goods, machinery, equipment, hardware, chemical, spare parts and components. This is an area critical to the country's industrial take-off and development.
Today, Gocuz group has grown into a full-fledged company with five subsidiaries serving the needs of Nigeria's growing industries. As the company's advert pay-off declares, they are into "Delivering Excellence" through quality products, offered at keen prices and which are fastly and efficiently distributed to meet the clients' expectations. The company owes its success to Uzoh's vision and dreams which he has pursued tenaciously to fruition. Uzoh has employed his youthful strength, boldness, a dynamic and visionary spirit to make the company the unique and outstanding enterprise that it is today.
Gocuz group also serves as the sole representative of many major international manufacturing companies in Nigeria. But beyond that , the company's interest is to commence local production of the products in order to derive fully benefit in value-added production as well as generate revenue and employment.
Gocuz group has signed trade pacts with two of the world's most reputable manufacturers of power and engineering equipment, Clarke International of Britain and Transcut Company of America. These trade pacts guarantee for 'Gocuz group the exclusive rights to market and supply the two companies' respective products not only in Nigeria but in the whole West African sub-region.
Uzoh, a graduate of the University of Lagos, attributes his success in business to honesty, dedication, hardwork and prayerfulness. In Gocuz, they strongly believe in and do not compromise offering honest service to their customers. Uzoh is a well-travelled man and belongs to many local and international trade and business organisations. He believes in pursuing his dream and vision for Gocuz group to extend the horizon of products and services available in the highly demanding and sophisticated technical services market always bearing in mind the need to deliver excellence.
Newswatch June 29, 1998
" Newswatch 1998