The Talawakelle Tea Estates PLC Managing Director, Dr. Roshan Rajadurai which won the 2018 award, said that the NBEA awards gave them a lot of recognition not only locally but internationally as well for their company.
He said that they now have 60 plantation companies and which employees over 25, 000 staff but they look after around 150,000 people who are immediate family members of their employees. “We look after them from womb to tomb providing all facilities,” he said. We were also one of the first companies to introduce a profit sharing model to our employees.
Commenting on the industry he said that they are facing a challenging period paying the highest salaries to plantation sector in the world amid lowering of global tea prices and high production costs.
The Print Media sponsor for the event once again is Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House) again.
Meanwhile Chairman Pannel of Judges Sunil Wijesinghe said that the awards for entrepreneurship encourages companies to perform even better next year and look at winning even bigger awards globally.
He said that after World War 2, Japan was economically depleted and were considered a nation of cheap exports.
“However, the government then decided to hire US expert Malcolm Baldrige to design an awards ceremony to recognize Japanese enterprises based on quality, which raised the bar of Japanese goods which also helped the nation to rise to be one of the top performing economies in the world.”
‘The excellence awards framework was then followed by USA.” (SS)
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