Furthermore, the HR Division continuously strives to enhance employee morale, motivation and creativity through numerous activities held at regular intervals throughout the year.

The Chairman’s Trophy 2007, the Delmege Staff Talent Night & the Sports Day (featured below) are some of the exciting events recently enjoyed by our staff.

Delmege Group rewards performance excellence across different sectors

The management and staff of the Delmege Group of Companies recently held their annual awards ceremony – The Chairman’s Trophy 2007 – to reward the tremendous contributions made by the group’s employees during the past financial year. This trophy is highly coveted within the Delmege Group, and was awarded to Mr. Anton Paul this year, in recognition of the excellence in leadership provided to his team at Delmege Distributors. Held at the Bishop’s College Auditorium, the awards night focused on recognising the achievements across 5 areas, believed to be critical to the success of the group, including customer service, leadership and innovation.

The winner of the prestigious honour, Mr. Anton Paul said that being awarded the Chairman’s trophy shows that the efforts of the entire team at Delmege Distributors have been recognised. He added, “The Company has worked exceptionally hard this year, and I am proud of the way we came together in our common goal of expanding the product range and quality of service we provide to our customers”.

Other features of the night included the Category Awards, presented to a select few employees in recognition of their achievements during the year. An award was presented to Mr. Soekaro Ousmand for his outstanding Performance at Delmege Forsyth Tours (Pvt.) Ltd. – the General Sales Agency for Qatar Cargo, while the award for New Business Development went to Mr. Samira Kulathunga of Delmege Interior Décor. Mr. Roshan Perera of Delmege Forsyth & Co. (Exports) was also recognized for his efforts, with the award for Innovation.

Explaining the concepts behind the awards night, the chairman for the group, Mr. F. G. N. Mendis said that the past year was highly successful, financially, for the various companies under the Delmege Forsyth banner. He continued, “As such, I truly believe that it is vital to keep our team members motivated, and to constantly reaffirm our appreciation of their hard work and dedication to the Group.”

Established in 1850, Delmege Forsyth & Co, has become a widely diversified Group of Companies. While retaining and expanding their original business of imports, the Group has diversified into exports, airline services, medical, interior décor, freight forwarding and more. The Delmege Group has firmly established itself as an integral part of the country’s economy, and strives to maintain this position, while continuing to seek opportunities for growth and development with both local and international partners. The group has also been a member of The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce for over a century.

Talent Night – 2007

“Breaking free…to the unconventional” was the theme of the Delmege Staff Talent Night held on 24th August, 2007.

The Talent Night is an event held annually by Delmege in order to nurture the creativity and artistic talents of its employees. The event is organized as a series of skits in the categories of singing, dance & drama with a winner & runner-up being chosen in each category. An external panel of judges is invited to decide on the winners. Even those who do not perform, are given an opportunity to showcase their talents by being a part of the “décor team”, by helping with the costumes and stage set-up or by being the compere for the evening.

This year’s Talent Night saw unprecedented participation with great enthusiasm being shown by everyone who took part. We were indeed privileged to have Mrs. Nayana Karunaratne (Salon Nayana), Mr. Romesh Kaluwitharana and Mr. Sohan Weerasinghe (Sohan & the Experiments) as our judges this year. The acts comprised of soul searching dramas, fun dances set to captivating music, a beautiful rendition of “You raise me up” along with other songs as well as a “Miss World” contest with male contestants dressed up in beach attire … resulting in the judges as well as the audience going in to gales of laughter throughout the evening! An impromptu Baila session by Sohan got everyone out of their seats to sing and dance along with him! The Delmege Staff Talent night will be the talk of the staff for many weeks to come!

Sports Day – 2007

Members of the Delmege staff gathered on a rainy day to witness and take part in the sports day at NCC grounds in Colombo on the 20th October 2007. In the wee hours of the morning, all house captains and participants were actively involved in decorating their respective houses namely Lewis, Forsyth, Delmege & Brown.

The rain and gloomy weather did not dampen the enthusiasm and interest in the events which started off with the 100m & 200 m running events. It went to show that even a thunderstorm couldn’t restrain the energy & high spirits of the Delmege staff!

The team events provided the highlights of the day with games such as Walking on the slices, Passing the coconut, French cricket, Dog and the bone and strongest legs. Towards the afternoon, the heavy rain continued but nothing could stop our day of fun and excitement. The fancy dress parade was one of the much awaited events that captured the audience’s attention. The DJ (Marlon from Delair Travels) provided excellent music throughout the event encouraging all to dance.

Our overall winners and participants are still bursting with excitement.