ERI Group, Your Radio team up for promotions

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Environmental Resources Investment PLC, (ERI) the official sponsor of the daily breakfast show of Your Radio – 88.3, recently held two promotions for their regular listeners which had many calling and a number of winners chosen.

First promotion was held during the Carlton Sevens Rugby Tournament where the callers were offered valuable gifts courtesy of all group companies. Among them were platinum rimmed porcelain plates with the signatures of the Jaffna Challengers team, gift vouchers from DI Leather, discount vouchers on hotel bookings through RoomsNet.com and other vouchers.

ERI is the franchise holder of Jaffna Challengers rugby team under the captaincy of Yoshitha Rajapaksa. The company in its short span of operations has been recognised for the partnership and commitment in the sporting arena through sponsorship with Sri Lanka Cricket when they sponsored the West Indies tour of Sri Lanka in 2010/11.

ERI was also the official sponsor of the Gymkhana Club for year 2011 and its subsidiary Ceylon Leather Products PLC was instrumental in manufacturing the largest Cricket Ball during the last Cricket World Cup. ERI was also a committed partner in the bid for the 2018 Common Wealth Games.

‘Seven days of Christmas’ the second promotion, was held during the Christmas season where ERI and subsidiary companies offered a Christmas Hamper worth Rs. 10,000.00 for seven days with goodies ranging from food and beverage items to Ceylon Leather Products and Dankotuwa Porcelain products and hotel discounts.

ERI has been the official sponsor of Your Radio’s Breakfast show ‘Your perfect Breakfast’ hosted by veteran sports personality Chandrishan Perera.

“We are very pleased to have had the opportunity to offer valuable gifts and hampers to our listeners through the generous participation of ERI our main sponsor of the popular breakfast show, and its subsidiary companies. ERI’s enthusiasm and boldness is infectious when it comes to embracing new ventures as their commitment to Your Radio when it was newly formed and unknown speaks volumes of their belief in others and true Sri Lankan pride,” said an Your Radio official.

The winners were handed over their winning hampers and gifts at the ERI office attended by group officials DNH Financial Limited CEO Seedantha Kulatillake and Head of ERI Human Resources Rushika Pieris.

ERI is a fully diversified group of companies with the following companies under them. DNH Financial (Pvt) Limited, Ceylon Leather Products PLC, Olancom (pvt) Ltd., South Asia Textile Industries Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC, The Colombo Pharmacy Company PLC and the recently acquired Palla and Company through Ceylon Leather Products PLC.

ERI continuously strives to be a socially responsible business entity which firmly believes in the positive and far-reaching effects of good governance policies and provides financial management, strategic guidance and strong management discipline to help re-structure companies and make good companies even better.