Mr. Mukesh V. Thakwani popularly known as Mike is the Founder/ Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of B5 Plus Limited, which is a certified ISO 9001:2015 QMS (Quality Management System) Company, and a lean Organization that has adopted best practices of Kaizen, a Japanese system. In addition, he currently serves as the Vice President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) for Large-Scale Industries The B5 plus Steel Industry was started in the year 2002 by Mr. Mike, with the vision and mission to become the world’s most recognized steel industry through the excellence of its employees, its innovative approach and its overall conduct. The company’s mission is underpinned by its steadfast commitment to realize high growth in all spheres they operate in. B5 Plus has embarked on various diversion and expansion programmes which are unprecedented by other steel companies across the Region.
The indomitable spirit of this steel company stays buoyed up with its focused vision and relentless efforts of its employees under the astute guidance of Mr. Mike, who has been at the company’s helm from its inception and has carried it forward to its present position of prominence. He stands out as one of the highest quality foreign direct investors in Ghana, putting millions of dollars into the economy. Mr. Mike has set high standards for his counterpart investors and has been actively promoting foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country. Indeed, it is certain that Mr. Mike must have mustered votes from chieftains at the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre towards his being appreciated as Ghana’s most respected CEO in heavy industry, an industrial leadership position which he thoroughly deserves.
This alone would have been enough to win him more respect than nearly all the other CEOs in Ghana, whether foreign or indigenous. But he goes even further to be one of the shrewdest, focused and self-disciplined CEOs in corporate Ghana as well. Moreover, his knowledge of the iron and steel industry which he is involved in is so deep that he uses it to dominate not just Ghana’s market but that of the entire West African sub region. Mr. Mike has nurtured B5 plus over the past two decades to become the most reputable and largest iron and steel company in the West African sub-region. Now, many of Ghana’s regional neighbors are counted among B5 Plus’s numerous customers.
Currently, the company has thirteen branches, employs about 15,000 direct and indirect staff and offers over 4,000 products on the market. B5 Plus has been a key supplier of many best-engineered products in Ghana.
Mr. Mike is committed to philanthropic initiatives, and he has created B5 Plus Care Foundation, B5 Plus corporate social responsibility wing which takes care of underprivileged children. The philosophy of B5 Plus has been to give back to the society generously by creating ample opportunities to everyone. There is a direct relationship between sustainability of business, wellbeing and the development of the society. B5 plus care foundation which is a charitable organization takes care of the underprivileged children in Ghana by providing them with basic needs including free education and basic medical care. They organize blood donation camps and free health checkup campaign every year. B5 Plus is actively involved in CSR activities through B5 Plus care foundation. As part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), B5 Plus limited donated oxygen to many Government and private hospitals free of cost. They provided free Oxygen Refilling for Hospitals from March 2020 onwards till April 2022 during COVID.
In line with the corporate belief that the capacity building is quintessential for long-term development and growth, Mr. Mike has promoted a world-renowned school in Tema, named DPS International, Ghana, which is the center of excellence in learning and the all-round development of children in Ghana and the neighboring countries. He has an equally intense commitment to education. Thus, he founded, and continues to nurture, the world-class DPS International School – which goes far beyond outstanding. The school’s consistent outstanding performance in external exams is exemplary.
B5 Plus, along with personal recognition for Mr. Mike himself, has been conferred with more than 50 different awards.
