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Synergy teams up with Hemas for Insight Out!

The Synergy School of Marketing recently concluded yet another successful session of Insight Out, with the program adopting a scaled down version of Donald Trump’s ‘The Apprentice’. Three subsidiaries of the Hemas group - Hemas Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Diethelm Travel Sri Lanka joined hands with Synergy in creating this novel learning experience.

According to the Directors of Synergy Michael Ranasinghe and Mohomad Adamally, “The aim of the program is to help create marketing professionals whose knowledge and experience translates into a competitive advantage for all employers, which at the end of the day is what matters most when it comes to professional education”.

The program itself has proven to be popular amongst the students with many sending in their applications to sign up.

This year too, after receiving an overwhelming number of applications, three groups of students, consisting of seven in each group, were selected after much deliberation.

Each group was then assigned their respective tasks by the heads of the three subsidiaries - Murtaza Eusufally (Chairman, Hemas Hospitals), Romero Linden (Director Sales, Hemas Pharmaceuticals) and Harith Perera (Managing Director, Diethelm Travel Sri Lanka).

Each team constituted students from the three levels of CIM, from varied industries and levels of experience. This brought in the diversity and also brought on board innovative and fresh thinking when the teams went about formulating solutions to the projects assigned, which included the challenging elements of research, strategy and operations.

“I was surprised at the quality and depth of the research output of these young marketing students. We were stimulated with the thoughts shared by the students, the judges and the audience and all the results and findings of these research projects will be seriously considered by the management into our future plans for the respective brands,” said Chairman, Hemas Hospitals Murtaza Eusufally.

Seylan quiz teams triumph

The Seylan Bank teams participating in the Interbank Quiz 2009 and the Trade Finance Quiz 2009 triumphed again this year, a feat accomplished consecutively in the past as well.

The Interbank Quiz 2009 which is organized by the Association of Chartered Bankers of Sri Lanka Trust is the premier annual quiz competition for the entire banking industry in Sri Lanka and had the participation of 34 teams this year battling on questions pertaining to banking law, trade finance, general knowledge and current affairs.

Seylan Bank entered two teams, the A team taking the trophy and the B team being the second runner-up.

The Seylan team also emerged champions for the second consecutive year at the Trade Finance Quiz 2009, organized by the Trade Finance Association of Bankers.

Com Bank opens another branch in Matara

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has enhanced its presence in the Southern part of the island by opening its third customer service point in Matara, the Matara City Office, to supplement the services provided by the Commercial Bank branch at Station Road and the MiniCom at the Cargills Food City.

The first branch in Matara was opened 36 years ago as the fifth branch of Commercial Bank.

With the rapid expansion of business, trading and industrial activities in the area, there was a continuous increase in the inflow of customers, leading to the opening of the first MiniCom Centre in the entire Southern Province in 2007.

“However, even this was not adequate to meet the constantly increasing customer demands, requiring us to open this new branch named, Matara City Office,” a bank spokesman said.

Coca-Cola Beverages support IDPs

Provides 100,000 bottles of drinking water:

Sri Lanka is currently faced with one of its worst ever humanitarian crises. Over one million people have been displaced from their habitual residences in the Northern peninsula.

In such a crisis, the most important needs for survival are water, food and medicines. In an initiative to provide support to the people of the North and help them face this situation, Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka joined massive efforts undertaken by civil society and the Government and donated 100,000 bottles of water.

To ensure speedy delivery of the 100,000 bottles of Kinley Water for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Vavuniya, Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka presented the consignment to Secretary, Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition, Dr. Athula Kahandaliyanage.

Country Manager, Sri Lanka and Maldives, Manish Chaturvedi, Coca-Cola Far East Limited, said, “We always strive to help communities towards sustainability and better standards of living.”