INSEE Cement honours business partners at Annual Awards Ceremony

The Winner of Business Partner of the Year 2018 – Ranjith Weragala and his sons of Lahiru Enterprises holding the award (centre) after receiving it from the Directors of Executive Committee – INSEE Cement. Also seen (from left): INSEE Cement Procurement and Logistics Director Thusith Gunawarnasuriya, INSEE Cement Industrial Performance Director Aridavid Lozano Estrada, INSEE Cement Head of Retail Sales Sujeewa Perera, INSEE Cement Executive Vice President and Sales and Marketing Director Jan Kunigk (centre), INSEE Cement CEO Nandana Ekanayake (3rd from right), INSEE Cement Organisation and HR Director Prasad Piyadigama, and INSEE Ecocycle General Manager Sanjeewa Chulakumara 

Sri Lanka’s premier cement manufacturer, INSEE Cement honoured its top performing business partners and their families at the Annual INSEE Business Partner Awards, wherein it recognised and rewarded the channel partners of its three leading retail products, INSEE Sanstha, INSEE Mahaweli Marine and INSEE Mahaweli Marine Plus, from across the island. The event themed ‘Adhwitheeya Hetak’, was held on 24 March at Shangri-La Colombo. 

Ranjith Weragala of Lahiru Enterprises won the Business Partner of the Year 2018, the most coveted award of the evening, while Deepthi Kumara of W.P. Seemon Singho & Sons was declared the Winner of the National Award – Platinum Category for Mahaweli Marine Cement.  The INSEE Cement Executive Committee presented a total of 46 awards at the event, a glamorous affair with high-powered musical acts and entertainment. The business partners were applauded for their performance and commitment to the INSEE brand during the year 2017.

Congratulating the winners, Executive Vice President and Sales and Marketing Director of INSEE Cement, Jan Kunigk commented, “We ventured into unexplored markets last year and gained impressive traction thanks to the commitment and support of our business partner network. We have introduced a strong partnership approach aligned to our strategy for 2018; Bigger investment in production plants and assets to serve our growing market, stronger construction solutions with superior expertise and technology to complement our strong brand name, and finally, faster strategy execution and rapid market reach. We look forward to an exciting year ahead with the continued support and loyalty of our business partners.”

INSEE Cement is a member of the Siam City Cement Public Company Ltd., the leading cement manufacturer in Southeast Asia founded in 1969 in Thailand. The company manufactures INSEE Sanstha, Mahaweli Marine and Mahaweli Marine Plus cements, ready mixed concrete, construction aggregates to serve markets that include Cambodia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand, in addition to Sri Lanka. INSEE Cement is the only fully integrated cement manufacturer in Sri Lanka, and manufactures the first certified ‘Green Cement’ product in the country.

The parent company Siam City Cement Public Company Ltd. (SCCC) has adapted and progressed to serve the construction needs of the region; its cement manufacturing facility in Saraburi, Thailand, is the world’s largest cement production complex. The company draws from the accumulated expertise and knowledge over decades of operation, and is strongly focused on investing in rapidly advancing regional markets such as Sri Lanka that show much promise in sustainable construction.