Award

Overall Gold for DIMO tribe

Diesel and Motor Engineering PLC (DIMO) was recently recognized as the best of the best among all corporate entities in Sri Lanka, when they won the overall Gold award at the National Business Excellence Awards 2011.

DIMO Chairman Ranjith Pandithage accepting the overall Gold winner award from National Chamber of Commerce Chairman Asoka Hettigoda at the National Business Excellence Awards 2011 .

DIMO won Gold awards in four other categories, thereby collecting the most number of Gold awards and most number of awards at the event. Gold awards were won for Excellence in Business and Financial Performance, Excellence in Performance Management Practices, Diversified Group of Companies Sector and Extra Large Category.

In his acceptance speech Chairman Ranjith Pandithage mentioned that DIMO was born in difficult time during World War II and that the success enjoyed today is solely possible due to the DIMO team.

He went on to identify the DIMO Team - as the DIMO Tribe, due to the fact that a team is about winning and performing, whilst a tribe is a much richer term of phrase.

DIMO had an exceptional financial performance during 2010/2011 and is continuing the same upward trend in the first two quarters of 2011/2012.

From a purely automobile based partnership, DIMO has developed into a diversified and public quoted organization having representations in every sphere of engineering.

The noteworthy contributors for DIMO's financial performance in 2010 and 2011 were TATA Commercial Vehicles Sales, Mercedes-Benz Passenger Sales, Agriculture Machinery Division, Mercedes-Benz Passenger Service, TATA Commercial Vehicles Service, Mercedes-Benz Parts and Accessories, Lighting Solutions, Truck and Bus Tires and Heavy Machinery Equipment.