FUTURE Farms Ltd which trades as Rooster Poultry in Ba was one of the few organisations recognised at the 18th Fiji Business Excellence Awards signifying another historic milestone for the company in the area of business excellence.
As the winner of the Fiji Business Excellence Prize Award, the company joined the ranks of well-known public sector organisations that integrate quality management into business operations.
“The Prize Award also signifies that Future Farms Ltd (trading as) Rooster Poultry has addressed the categories of assessment for an organisation to be recognised with such a feat in relation to the leadership drive, strategic planning, measurement of data for business continuity and knowledge management, people focus and benefits, operational aspects and designs, customer perspective and support and eventually the derived results from these areas,” said company general manager Stanley Raniga.
“The Prize Award recognition also signifies the organisation’s focus on continual improvement as the mechanism to ensure product excellence.
“Rooster Poultry is certainly proud to have achieved such an accomplishment and this will surely benefit all its valued customers ensuring that their product which is already laced with quality has now been recognised for excellence in all facets of the business.”
Mr Raniga said their employees had been instrumental in the company’s achievement.
“The bigger cluster of credit in achieving such a recognition goes to our people, the employees at Farms Ltd t/a Rooster Poultry for the incredible effort they have put in to continuously ensure that we as an organization are fully aligned to the seven stringent categories of the Business Excellence Framework and have it reflected through our values and our product. This recognition is for them.
“Furthermore, acknowledgement goes to our shareholders and owners, BSP Life for believing in Future Farms Ltd and investing in a company based in the rural areas of Ba and Lautoka by which the company directly and indirectly supports over 1000 individuals.
“I must show appreciation to our board, headed by Malakai Naiyaga and guided by Pramesh Sharma for the genuine support in this recognition.
“Let me also not forget our formidable distributor, CJ Patel Group that have aggressively conquered market space for our product and this market share is still growing.
He said the company’s journey in excellence began with the implementation of the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and the ISO 22000.
“ISO ensures quality in our product and lay out of our processes to provide you with the best chicken in the country.
“We needed to ensure we are not only quality oriented but having gained that respect and loyalty of our valued customers, we embarked on our journey of total excellence in our leadership, strategies, data, people, customers and operations for eventual and sustainable results.
“In 2016, we introduced the Quality Circle concept together with a tailor-made Idea Generation Concept which gained momentum and gave greater employee engagement.
“These programs gave our Excellence journey a new turn towards a more positive drive.
“We have seen new benchmarks been set in our various areas with the alignment of the Business Excellence Framework and we are very proud to be associated with the Fiji Business Excellence Framework as we know that our never ending journey of excellence is ever evolving and changing.”