The New Nation - Internet Edition

NATION BUSINESS REPORT

The Annual Sales and Marketing Conference 2009 of ACI Consumer Brands were held on January 6 last at the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Center in the city. The conference was inaugurated by Dr Arif Dowla , Managing Director and welcomed by Syed Alamgir , Executive Director and opening speech by Ashraf Bin Taj, Business Director.

The conference was also addressed by Bishwajit Roy, Business Manager Food, Anup Kumar Saha, Business Manager, Flour, on the occasion.

Dr Arif Dowla thanked the team for their performance during the year 2008 and inspired the team to do even better in the years to come. He assured full support to make this business growing in a bigger scale.

Mr Alamgir gave an outline of the objectives for the year 2009 to an audience of 1400 representatives and assured the team of all the necessary assistance required for achieving the goals.

ACI is a large FMCG company and market leader in mosquito repellent and household antiseptics market with ACI Aerosol, ACI Mosquito Coil, Cockroach Killer, Savlon, Sparkle and Vanish Toilet Cleaner and also do the marketing of Sparkle (Energy Savings Light). ACI produces very high quality world class edible salt like ACI Salt which has achieved the Best Food & Beverages Award from Brand Forum this year.

ACI Foods brand, featuring the world-class technology, high-class raw-materials and nicely machine packed spices in competitive price, has already attracted the customers of Bangladesh and of the world as well. ACI Foods produced Pure powdered spices, Pure Curry Powder, Pure Mustard Oil, Pure Pickle, Fun Candy, Fun Chutney, Fun Chanachur. Pure Spices was associated last year with this prestigious award British Curry Award as the first and only Bangladeshi brand. Along with Bangladeshi market, the Pure spices brand is exported to Australia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Arab Emirates, UK and Italy and Pure products are available in the retail shops of those countries.

ACI is the exclusive marketing partner and distributor of Colgate, Nivea, Equal/Canderel and Godrej Consumer products and Laser Shaving products for the territory of Bangladesh.