Brandix honours its stars
Top apparel exporter Brandix celebrated the completion of another
year of high achievement by honouring 47 of the Group's best performing
employees and supervisors of the large clusters at a spectacular
multifaceted festival in Colombo recently.
Winners at the Brandix Employee of the Year/Supervisor of
the Year awards receive their medals from family members at
the Brandix Rasadiya Mangalya |
The event, titled 'Rasadiya Mangalya' (Mercury festival) saw
employees in the associate, staff and supervisor categories from Brandix
business units in Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh, rewarded for their
performances and contributions to the Group's growth in 2012.
Each 'Employee of the Year' and 'Supervisor of the Year' received a
handsome trophy of appreciation as well as a company-sponsored study
tour to China, Vietnam, India or Bangladesh and in Sri Lanka for those
attached to the Group's overseas plants.
"The Brandix Group comprises of over 43,000 employees at 42
manufacturing plants in Sri Lanka, at a 1,000 acre industrial park in
India and a large operation in Bangladesh," said Ishan Dantanarayana,
the Group's Chief People Officer. "Clearly, people are our biggest asset
and motivating and rewarding performance is a key to success. Harnessing
the collective team synergy to create a winning spirit is also critical
to our business growth.
That is why this event is one of the largest on the Brandix
calendar." Attended by over 5,000 people, the Brandix 'Rasadiya Mangalya'
began with the Men's and Women's finals of the Brandix 'Rasadiya
Kusalanaya' (Mercury Trophy) annual Volleyball Tournament for
non-executive associates, the finals of the 'Rasadiya Gee Tharuwa' (Brandix
Mercury Star) talent contest conducted across the Group over several
months, and the presentation of awards to the winners of the Brandix 'Mech
Challenge' -- a competition organised to enable the Group's mechanical
and engineering associates to demonstrate their mechanical and technical
skills.
Musical entertainment for the event was provided by the superstar duo
Bhathiya and Santhush, as well as by the associates who won the Brandix
Rasadiya Gee Tharuwa singing competition.
Colonel Sujith Jayasekara, Group Human Resources Manager of Brandix
said the 41 Employees of the Year and six Supervisors of the Year were
selected through a comprehensive process covering contributions to key
business performance measures as well as additional engagements that
bring value to associates as well as the business.
"As in the case of last year, the inclusion of recipients from our
Group's offshore factory locations in our industrial zone in India as
well as in Bangladesh, was one of the features of the event.
This year, we further strengthened the event by converting it to a
festival," he said. |