CNCI launches Achiever Awards 2015

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Applications are now open

The Ceylon National Chamber of Industries (CNCI), the foremost service facilitator to the Sri Lankan industry, official launched its highly popular ‘Achiever Awards 2015 for Industrial Excellence’ at a media briefing on 19 March at Hotel Taj Samudra. Addressing the gathering, CNCI Chairman Gamini Gunasekera said that the main objective of the Achiever Awards was to recognise Sri Lankan industrialists who excelled in achieving operational excellence, thereby encouraging them to pursue further heights. The Achiever Awards Judging Committee Chairman and CNCI Deputy Chairman Tissa Seneviratne, explaining the application and selection

procedure, highlighted 12 areas considered criteria for assigning marks to determine the level of excellence, which basically covered the areas of Process Efficiency, Quality Standards, Business Ethics, Labour Relations and Social and Environmental Obligations. Maliban Biscuits Manufactories Ltd. Sales and Marketing Chief Executive Officer Ravi Jayawardena, the Gold Award Winner of the Achiever Awards for the last two years, explained the importance of participating in the Achiever competition. He said that participating companies should not necessarily only aim to win the award but what was important was to apply the expected standards of the selection criteria into their processes, which was itself a huge victory to achieve success. This unique and prestigious awards competition was open to Sri Lankan industries operating in SAARC countries as well as the SAARC specific industries. These popular and highly acclaimed Achiever Awards have been rated as the benchmark of industrial excellence in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Telecom is the Principal Sponsor for Achiever Awards 2015 while Ceylinco Insurance Plc is the Co-sponsor. Lake House and ITN are media sponsors. Achiever applications are now available for Extra Large/Large/Medium/Small and Micro level settings in the manufacturing and service sectors at the CNCI office at Apt. 20, 1st Floor, Galle Face Court 2, Colombo 3, at all regional chambers and also at www.cnci.biz.