MTN Named Most Admired African Brand

MTN has been named one of the most admired brand by Brand Africa 100 based on spontaneous consumer responses.

The seventh annual Brand Africa 100 report was released on 24 May 2019, featuring the top 100 most admired brands in Africa.

Ranked number eight in the top 100 most admired brands in Africa, MTN is the only African brand in the top 10, as well as the most admired telecommunications brand on the continent. Furthermore, within the financial services category, MTN Mobile Money is in the Top 20 at number 19, up one position from 2018. MTN is also the overall number one brand in Rwanda and Liberia, and the number one Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed brand in the Brand Africa 100 rankings.

Brand Africa 100 is a pan-African survey and ranking of Africa’s Best Brands developed by Brand Leadership. The rankings are based on a comprehensive survey by Geopoll, a global leader in providing high quality market research in emerging markets, and strategic analysis and weighted consumer admiration ranking by Kantar, the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company and Brand Leadership, Africa’s leading branding and integrated marketing communications advisory.

The 2018/19 study surveyed consumers from 25 countries in Africa (12 of which are MTN markets). Together these countries represent 85% of Africa’s population and 85% of GDP.

Commenting on the accolade, Bernice Samuels, MTN Group Executive for Marketing said, “This is such an honour for MTN and I wish to thank our customers on the continent for their support over the years, which has seen us being ranked as the most admired African Brand yet again.”

Samuels adds, “With Africa being a young continent, young Africans want to experience a modern, digital, connected life. We are doing everything we can to make this a reality by leading the delivery of a bold new digital world in ways that are relevant to our customers.”

“MTN is committed to brightening lives every day by being a responsive, customer and community focused company.  Through the MTN Foundations we work together with communities to create opportunities to advance growth and development by supporting health and education initiatives and national development priorities. We are also working hard to deliver the best customer experience in voice, data, digital and financial services so that consumers across our footprint continue to choose us as their most admired and preferred brand.”