First Bank Plc and Lafarge Africa have reaffirmed their commitment to continue assisting their clients in the distribution of Lafarge cement in the SouthWest to stay in business and thrive in the face of various business obstacles.

The statement was made at a meeting called the “Key Distributors’ Forum” in Abeokuta, Ogun State, which was attended by key cement distributors from the region’s six states.

One of the financial alternatives First Bank said it was offering customers was a loan facility called Temporary Over Draft, which is a short-term credit facility meant to supplement distributors’ working cash.

Olaitan Martins, Group Executive, Transaction Banking Division, First Bank Nigeria Plc, remarked at the event that the seminar aimed not only to enable the

Martins said, “The purpose of this event is get us to bring distributors closer together in a forum where we will engage, discuss some of the challenges we are seeing in the environment in general, how we can work closer with them and help them navigate through some of the challenges we are seeing.”

Augustine Sobola, Customer Relations Manager at Lafarge, stated in her remarks that the company would continue to support cement distributors in order to help them stay afloat in their enterprises.