| – Hardware giant awards longstanding staffPull quote: “To the long serving recipients, I wish to express our company’s sincerest congratulations and thanks for your commitment and dedication to our organization. Together you have provided over 1680 years of service.” – Gafsons’ Executive Chairman Sattaur GafoorBy Rabindra RooplallCorporate mogul,Air Max 98 Gundam Release Date, Sattaur Gafoor, Executive Chairman of Gafsons Industries, celebrated his company’s 60th year in the hardware industry, and awarded dozens of employees for their long service to the entity, last Thursday evening at the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel.Scores turned out, including family and friends,Cheap Air Max 90 For Sale, to witness the charismatic, yet simple business pioneer, entertain his guests with dinner, gifts and words of encouragement. He also advised employees to persevere in their duties as employees and individuals.In attendance were dozens of employees who had served for periods ranging from 10 years to five decades.Some of the persons who clocked in over three decades of service were; Company Secretary Afzal Khan, Store operator Indar Chand, Cashier Eileen Rooney, supervisor Rupan Jetto, machine operator Doodnauth Rampersaud and Manager Sohan Singh.Mr. Gafoor himself has dedicated 52 years of service to the company which his father started.Collectively, senior staff of Gafsons noted that the event was also in celebration and recognition of the invaluable contributions made by its employees to the development and the growth of the company.Gafsons also has a revolving fund called the Small Business Development Finance Trust Inc. for employees who have ideas and potential to invest in their own businesses in urban and rural communities. The Trust is also available to assist small agricultural farmers, which in turn, creates employment. As the loans are being repaid, a revolving fund is created where others with vision can apply for a loan, which creates an environment to promote entrepreneurship.The Small Business Development Finance Trust Inc. has given $150M in loans to over 600 persons.The Executive Chairman, in underscoring achievements in 2011, said the company made several changes to its management structure. More autonomy was given to the sales department,Mens Nike Air Max 2018 Shoes, training of senior staff, and greater attention was paid to core product lines. He also noted that greater attention was paid to customers’ satisfaction and their recommendations of the advocacy of the company.Mr. Gafoor in praise and recognition of his wife and philanthropist Ameena, stressed that she was the brain behind Gafsons theme “for service, quality and price Gafoors is the name you can trust.”The businessman said the company will continue to instill in its employees that they should have a vision where they would like to go in the company, and in life.He also explained that his employees were given the opportunity to partake in Gafsons’ Toastmasters Club to enhance their capabilities in dealing with customer service. Gafsons, it was noted, is the first company to have its own Toastmasters’ Club.Adding that many employees benefitted from the company, Mr. Gafoor said that many heavy duty vehicles were given to employees who now perform contractual services.“Given the encouragement people can do well, and our job is to see and identify those persons who have the potential and to give them the ways and means to develop themselves.”Underscoring that the company also provides rent-free housing for its employees, Mr. Gafoor said the company is at present constructing additional houses which will benefit a total of 200 persons in the Land of Canaan,Nike Air Vapor Max Flyknit 2017, East Bank Demerara compound.He further explained that the 900-plus employees are free to approach any director of the company to sort out personal or working issues that they may have.CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETYThe Executive Chairman further noted that Gafsons monitors and assists persons who access loans with their managerial advice.He revealed that this year the company built six houses for persons who were living under trying circumstances. Meanwhile,Air Max 98 Gundam Price, the company’s quarterly annual donations exceed $40M, and the entity also provides meals for 35 women who have no one to cater for their needs.On school days, Gafoor said, on hundred (100) meals are prepared for poor children of the Albouystown area, many of whom previously went without a lunch.“To the long serving recipients, I wish to express our company’s sincerest congratulations and thanks for your commitment and dedication to our organization. Together you have provided over 1680 years of service.”HISTORYGafoor’s lucky break came in 1957 when Premier Cheddi Jagan abolished the licensing requirements for the importation of most goods, and Gafoor imported directly from then Socialist bloc countriess, such as Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany.In November 1959, when Sattaur Gafoor left school, he joined his father’s business.The company flourished and was extended to two other locations within the city, at Broad Street and Sussex Street.In 1971, then Prime Minister, Forbes Burnham imposed licencing restrictions, which banned the importation of finished goods without a valid import licence.Coincidently, Gafoors started manufacturing certain items such as corrugated sheets, and this carried the business for a while. But eight years later, the company ran into problems with Burnham, and in 1980, the business shrunk to a meagre operation since it was not granted an import licence, even for the importation of raw materials. With his business virtually closed, he left Guyana’s shores.Gafoor resettled in Barbados and with the aid of his Japanese business counterparts, started a similar business there and soon spread his wings to other small islands such as Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica and St. Lucia.His greatest challenge was leaving behind all that he had work and developed for over 28 years behind. The business however progressed, but his patriotism, coupled with urgings from the new President Cheddi Jagan in 1992, brought Gafoor home, and he soon set up shop at Land of Canaan with a manufacturing complex.The business grew steadily and in January 2002,Cheap Adidas Superstar Shoes, all operations were centralised at the Houston Complex, which now boasts the administrative block and a modern shopping mall. The company has also established retail outlets at Parika and Rose Hall, Berbice.Gafsons Industries Limited is run by a Board of Directors, which includes no Gafoor family member, and has already started a middle-class housing complex of more than 200 homes across the Demerara River. The company has also just completed a $ 1.5 billion modern housing facility at Cummings Lodge, which is being rented to members of the diplomatic community. |
