The New Nation - Internet Edition

BUSINESS REPORT

Holcim (Bangladesh) Ltd, the leading cement manufacturer of the country has recently organised a mason meet at country's Noakhali district. In all around the country Holcim is well known for its quality and advance technology. Holcim has a tremendous demand in Noakhali District. Holcim is providing cement to Noakhali district since from the very beginning and the good news is that the people of Noakhali district are using Holcim with a deep satisfaction and giving high priority to its quality.

Holcim always actively perform its corporate social responsibility along with its business activities. Under corporate social responsibilities Holcim organised this at 'Central Community Center' in Noakhali District. Around 400 masons were present in this meet and many dealers and retailers joined the meeting from Noakhali and adjacent area.

Masons are the key workers at construction sites, but they have long been considered as downtrodden section of the society, despite their large contribution towards the development of the country in general and construction in particular and realising this reality; Holcim has come forward to extend all possible supports towards the improvement of this segment of the society. As part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Holcim had taken an initiative to provide insurance coverage for masons. Under this insurance programme if any mason (i.e. enlisted under this programme) falls any accident and/or expires during construction work, the insurance holder will receive compensation of Tk. 25,000 - Tk.50,000 through fulfilling certain conditions. In this mason meet, Holcim gave 10,000 Tk= as the insurance policy money to the mason, Mr. Abu Taher Mystry. 5 children of masons, each got 2000 Tk/= as scholarship money for their brilliant result also which is another extreme facilities, Holcim Bangladesh Ltd is providing for masons.

In this mason meet, Mr. Jashim Uddin Khandaker, GM - Customer Care of Holcim (Bangladesh) Ltd, welcomed all the masons and said, "Holcim is the first company in Bangladesh, took such a initiative for the betterment of the mason which create huge positive impact on masons living standards." Senior Executive- Customer Support, Mr. Achinto Kumar Roy, senior Executive - Customer Care, Mr. Shaibal Shaha, and Territory Officer - Customer Care, Masudul Hasan Rana and other well-known dealers and retailers were also present in the meeting.

All the masons who were present in meet express their gratitude and thanked Holcim for arranging these meet and making their life easy. Holcim arranged an attractive spot quiz and a raffle draw. One of the masons got an attractive color television for raffle draw. After the program there was a nice cultural show for all of them.