he Commercial Bank of Ceylon recently felicitated 68 employees who had completed 25 years of service with the Bank in 2012.
Many
of the employees felicitated had joined the Bank as school leavers in
1987 and advanced to key positions as managers, senior managers and
chief managers, the Bank said.
The Bank’s Long
Service Awards ceremony has been conducted annually for more than a
decade, recognising employee loyalty and commitment. Each employee
receives a plaque and a Gold coin in recognition of his or her service
to the Bank.
Commercial Bank Chairman Dinesh
Weerakkody and members of the Board of Directors and representatives of
corporate management graced the occasion in a demonstration of its
importance to the institution. The Chairman and the Managing Director
presented the awards at the gala event at the Taj Samudra Hotel in
Colombo.
Speaking at the event, Weerakkody
recalled how the Bank was in 1987, when these employees joined it and
traced its growth over the last 25 years, and pointed out that the
employees too have grown along with the Bank.
In
his address, Ravi Dias - Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer,
elaborated on the commitment of the staff, thanked their spouses for
their support, and commended the long years of service of the 68
employees felicitated.
The largest private
bank in Sri Lanka, Commercial Bank is the only Sri Lankan Bank to be
listed two years consecutively in the world’s Top 1000 Banks. The Bank
operates a network of 224 service points in Sri Lanka and a network of
541 ATMs, the single largest ATM network operated by a bank in the
island. It also operates 17 service points in Bangladesh. The Bank has
been adjudged ‘Best Bank in Sri Lanka’ for 14 consecutive years by
‘Global Finance’ Magazine, and has won multiple awards as the country’s
best bank from ‘The Banker,’ ‘FinanceAsia,’ ‘Euromoney’ and ‘Trade
Finance’ magazines.