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Janashakthi rewards top performers

Janashakthi Insurance PLC held a Mid-Year Awards Ceremony at the Chaaya Ellaihdoo Resort in the Maldives recently to mark its 15th anniversary.

Over 75 top performers who qualified for the awards were flown to Mal‚ to attend the awards ceremony as part of an all-expenses-paid ‘gala weekend of reward and recognition’.

Janashakthi Sales and Marketing General Manager Ravi Liyanage said that this was the first time that a local insurance company hosted an Awards Ceremony overseas. “The morale among our sales team was positive and high. These mid-year awards were in addition to our annual awards and made all our sales personnel feel part of one large family.”

Liyanage said that an exercise of this nature proved to be a successful motivational tool. “It gave the management time away from the stress of deadlines and reaching targets, in fact away from the country, to spend time with the team to share and discuss ideas. There was a lot we learnt from each other during this period. The team is now highly motivated and refreshed to reach greater heights in the months to come”, he said.

Janashakthi’s Metro Branch swept the boards with eleven award winners while the Highest Zone was the Western Zone also with eleven award winners. The top Gold Awards were mostly won by City Branch which won a total of five Golds in different categories.

Head of Marketing Paddy Weerasekera said, in addition to the gala awards night, the Sales Team also indulged in a lot of sports, recreation and team building activities.

Among them were cricket, volleyball, snorkeling, and the novel experience of sunset fishing. They were also taken to the capital Male for a day’s excursion and shopping.

Global hand washing day:

Lifebuoy’s school awareness campaign

‘Lifebuoy’s school awareness campaign’ and public awareness initiatives took place aiming to raise awareness of this life-saving habit.

Lifebuoy is working with the Health Education Bureau and the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition, bringing 1500 schools and 5000 pre-schools and medical clinics in Sri Lanka together, to help children across the country become the cleanest through awareness-raising and educational activities about this simple hygiene habit.

Global Handwashing Day is part of Lifebuoy’s commitment to health and hygiene. Lifebuoy is committed to spreading the global handwashing message by continuing to invest and dedicate time into local projects such as school awareness campaign.

Last year this project had reached over 1,000,000 children and this year it aimed to reach 1.3 million children.

Lifebuoy Brand manager Kasun Liyanage said: “Every parent wants their child to do the best they can and make sure they reach their potential, so the less time they miss from school the better. Clean hands can help prevent your child swallowing any horrible germs that will make them sick.”

Cathay Pacific wins awards at TTG Asia

‘Best Airline - Business Class’:

Cathay Pacific won the ‘Best Airline - Business Class’ award in the 20th Annual TTG Travel Awards Ceremony held last week in Bangkok. This is the second consecutive year that the airline has won the award under this category.

Presented by TTG Asia, a leading travel trade publication, the awards recognize luminaries of the travel industry and are determined by votes cast by TTG Asia readers across the Asia Pacific. Cathay Pacific’s Sales and Marketing Manager Thailand and Myanmar Yongyut Lujintanon received the award from TTG Asia Media Managing Director Darren Ng.

Yongyut said: “It is our great pleasure to receive this award as it demonstrates our strong and continued effort to develop premium products and services to delight our passengers. We are proud to win the ‘Best Airline - Business Class’ again this year.”

Debug Computer Peripherals turns 20

At a time when Sri Lanka’s burgeoning IT industry began making inroads into the everyday workings of the corporate world and individual homes, Debug Computer Peripherals was started in 1989 to support the demand for computer peripherals of reputed quality.

Debug played a role in shaping the distribution of high quality ICT products, introducing best practices and standards in the sale and service of these products.

Debug Managing Director Moiz Najmudeen said, Debug was representing a select group of international ICT brands including EPSON, MGE UPS systems, D-Link Network products, DCP UPS systems, HP server and storage, Bluecoat appliances, Sophos security solutions, AI-Phone Security phone systems, Kenwood Radio communications, JBL, Crown, Soundcraft, Kinoton, Nakamichi and Dolby Digital.

He said that the Debug Group today touches the diverse markets of ICT infrastructure, power conversion and protection services, professional audio visual solutions, software development for export, radio communication, high tech automobile workshops, Wynns engine treatment car care products and machinery and Sea-doo water crafts sport boats.

The Debug Group comprises nine other subsidiaries in addition to Debug Computer Peripherals. Duplex Trade and Manufacturers, Debug Computer Software, Debug Epson Digital Centre, Debug Auto Exclusive, Equipment Trades, ONVI Debug Solutions, The Hi-Fi Centre and AKLO Information Technologies a specialised software company which was recently awarded Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) certification, one of the highest internationally recognised standards for assessing and evaluating software development practices.

The foundation stone for the new People’s Bank complex at Nugegoda was laid recently. Dean Faculty of Arts Sri Jayawardenepura University, Ven. Prof. Bellanwila Wimalaratana Thera conducts religious observances. Deputy Dean of Sri Jayawardenepura University, Prof. N.L.A. Karunaratna - People’s Bank Chairman W. Karunajeewa, Acting CEO/GM of People’s Bank H.S. Dharmasiri and other management and staff of the bank together with local artists and customers are at the occasion.

The Outstanding Young Personality (TOYP) 2009 award for Political Achievement was awarded to Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services Minister Risath Bathiyutheen at a ceremony held at Kings Court, Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo recently organised by Junior Chamber International Sri Lanka. Here Minister Risath Bathiudeen with chief guest Chief of Defence Staff General Sarath Fonseka, HSBC Chief Executive Officer Nick A. Nicolaous and JCI National President Bimal Liyanage. Picture by Ruzaik Farook

Singer and Dialog Television entered into partnership to facilitate Dialog TV bill payments at all 370 Singer outlets islandwide. This tie-up will afford Dialog TV customers easy access to a large number of bill settlement points across the country. Dialog Telekom PLC Group Chief Executive Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya exchanges the agreement with Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC Chairman Hemaka Amarasuriya. Dialog TV Chief Operating Officer Suren Goonewardene, Dialog TV Chief Executive Officer Nushad Perera, Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC Finance Director Priyath Salgado and Dialog TV, Manager, Corporate and Enterprise Sales Reza Aniff.