Tokyo Cement recognises dealers and partners in Trincomalee factory visit
The top performing dealers of the Tokyo Cement Group’s island wide reseller network were treated to a unique recognition event, which included a factory visit and a memorable stay in Trincomalee.
Tokyo Cement Group decided to transform this year’s annual dealer convention into an unforgettable experience for the dealers as well as their family members, by coupling it up with a weekend stay in Trincomalee, which also gave them the opportunity to have a detailed tour around the state-of-the-art manufacturing hub of the company.
The event, which brought together all members of the sales and distribution channel, marked the annual gathering of nearly 200 top performing Tokyo Cement dealers across Sri Lanka in celebration of their accomplishments. 159 best performers in last year’s dealer competition from various categories walked away with prizes at the event, making it a memorable gettogether, held for the first time at Tokyo Cement’s birthplace in Trincomalee.
City Hardware and Stores - Jaffna won the Grand Prize for Best Dealer 2019, with Ancheneyer Cement and Hardware Dealers - Batticaloa and National Trading Stores – Kurunegala winning the first and second Runnerup positions respectively.
Held at the newly inaugurated Centre for Technical Excellence at the heart of the Tokyo Eastern Cement Factory, the dealer appreciation event was graced by Managing Director S.R. Gnanam,
Director Consultant Christopher Fernando, Tokyo Cement Co. (Lanka) PLC Group Chief Operating Officer M. Thayananthan, Tokyo Eastern Cement Co. Director Ravindrakumar among other key management executives of Tokyo Cement Group.
Managing Director of Tokyo Cement Co. (Lanka) PLC, S.R. Gnanam, addressing the ceremony welcomed the Tokyo Cement dealers to the ancestral birthplace of the company, and reminisced the beginning of its operations and how the company grew to where it is today, drawing strength from the loyalty and trust of its reseller network.
The factory visit included an exclusive guided tour around all the manufacturing plants, the fullyequipped laboratory facilities within the Centre for Technical Excellence, as well as biomass power plants at Tokyo Cement Factory premises.the groups had the rare opportunity to follow the entire cement manufacturing process, from the point of clinker unloading, from a bulk cargo vessel at the Tokyo Cement’s private jetty in Cod Bay, to the point of bagged cement being loaded to a transport trailer.
Guided by the plant engineers and field sales officers, the dealer partners visited the mangrove nurseries and the forestry tree plant nurseries housed inside the factory premises, giving them the chance to see how Tokyo Cement contributes to enrich the island nation.