Delmege Distributors felicitates sales team
Delmege Distributors, a subsidiary of the Delmege Forsyth Group of
Companies and one of Sri Lanka’s leaders in the marketing of branded
packaged food products, specialising in retail and wholesale
distribution and brand marketing, felicitated their entire sales team at
a ceremony at the Trans Asia Hotel recently.
Nine Awards were presented including the coveted Chairman’s Trophy
for the most outstanding sales representative of the year which was won
by J. A. Upul Sampath of Hingurakgoda.
The Most Outstanding Nominated Dealer for 2007/2008 was Keerthi
Stores of Ja-ela, while the award for the Best Team went to the team
from the South.
Delmege Distributors with an expertise developed over several decades
has an islandwide distributor network servicing different channels such
as traditional trade, modern trade, food service, as well as
non-conventional channels such as cinemas and clubs.
CEO Delmege Distributors, Dinesh Nalliah said that during the past
year the company had exceeded top as well as bottom line objectives. He
said that significant steps had been taken to strengthen the Delmege
portfolio by launching YoYO and the Lotte confectionery range as well as
Ace bubble gum, while the Motha range was extended by introducing the
Mango Faluda mix.
“In the canned fish segment Delmege Distributors strengthened their
position by consolidating distribution in the retail and wholesale
channels and sourcing smaller size tins from Thailand. Motha continues
to dominate the dessert category with a market share of almost 80%.
Delmege Supiri Soy too grew at a healthy rate, while the focused
effort on developing the Delmege brand portfolio generated excellent
results, with this actually contributing to the major portion of the
Company’s turnover”.
Nalliah said that whilst the year 2007/2008 was a rewarding one for
the Company, 2008/2009 would be a challenging one.
“In terms of new business the year 2008/2009 will see the company
entering some new high growth categories. We have already added Lotte
Dynamic Energy Drinks and YoYo jumbo peanuts to our portfolio within the
first quarter of 2008/2009.
Delmege Distributors has established itself as one of the most
reputable and efficient FMCG distributors and we are indeed proud of our
achievements which are the result of a concerted team effort”. |