President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari will be the Chief Guest at Eighth LCCI Achievement Awards 2012 scheduled for second week of July. This was stated by LCCI Acting President Kashif Younis Meher while addressing a Press Conference here at Lahore Chamber of commerce and Industry on Tuesday. The LCCI Achievement Awards Committee Convener and former senior Vice President Sheikh Muhammad Arshad, Central Chairman Pakistan Hardware Merchants Association Sardar Usman Ghani, LCCI Executive Committee members Zeeshan Khalil and Sheikh Mohmmad Ayub also spoke on the occasion.
The LCCI Acting President said that the very objective of this annual event of the Lahore Chamber is to encourage the fast growing business entrepreneurs. He said that this year the event would be unique in the sense that not only more categories are being introduced but its territorial scope is also being widened.
He said that for the selection of businessmen from the other parts of the country the help of their respective chambers would be sought. He said that a new category of “Son of Lahore” is also being included in the Achievement awards while the other categories would be President of Pakistan Trophy, Businessman of the Year, woman Entrepreneur of the Year, LCCI Achievement Award and LCCI Appreciation Awards that would be given to an Agriculture Scientist and two former Presidents of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
