EFL receives dual honours at SLIM Awards 2012

Expo Freight (EFL) clinched dual honours at the glittering SLIM Brand Excellence Awards 2012. It won Silver for 'B2B Brand of the Year' and Bronze for 'CSR Brand of the Year'.

Jagath Pathirane, CEO, Expo Freight (EFL) said, "With very simple beginnings in the freight and logistics industry, we are indeed proud today to be a local company which had spread its wings globally to as many as 16 countries. We are elated to be recognised for our efforts in marketing and branding as a B2B-Service company among many other reputed product and service brands. This will no doubt motivate us all to further continue our commitment to this industry".

The award being received by Expo Freight (EFL) team by (L to R) Jagath Pathirane, Director/CEO Expo Freight, Saif Yusoof, Director-Expo Freight, Sajeeth Ilyas, Senior Executive CSR - Expolanka Holdings PLC, Paddy Weerasekera, Head of Marketing, Corporate Communications & CSR - Expolanka Holdings PLC

Expolanka Freight (EFL), a leader among its peers and known for its Out-of-the-Box thinking commands a global footprint today with a 1,200 member staff strength across 16 countries and 45 cities and a strong presence in the Indian sub continent. EFL is a prominent IATA agent in Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan and has representation in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the USA.

It's tailor-made flexible solutions, strategic reach and reliability coupled with its multi-model transportation and logistics with ocean and air transportation and have positioned EFL as one of the largest air and ocean freight forwarders, especially in the South Asian region.

Head of Marketing, Corporate Communication and CSR, Expolanka Holdings PLC, Paddy Weerasekera hailed these accolades as an unequivocal endorsement of the Company's efforts in brand building and its CSR activities. "We're proud to be recognised for the strength and value of the Expo Freight (EFL) Brand, and, the success of our islandwide CSR efforts. This we attribute to our unmatched brand propositions; the unmatched quality of our service and the creation of greater value by constant investments in process improvements, IT and brand building. Added to this, are our constant endeavours through which we make a change in the lives of the people of the community we work in. Our team is both elated and deeply honoured with this national recognition. In fact, it inspires us to out-better ourselves in the years to come", he said.

While engaged in regular handling of perishables, commodities, telecom and medical equipment, project cargo, machinery and pharmaceuticals, the company primarily focuses on servicing the apparel industry as fashion logistics specialists.

With an unmatched quality of service in Freight and Logistics, it provides an end-to-end supply chain management solution, through understanding and simplifying the customer's logistics requirements. It also initiated a range of industry-first products enabling customers to get tailor made freight and logistics solutions which are not on the standard menu. Parallely Expo Freight (EFL) successfully encompasses all spheres of society in its wide ranging CSR activities.