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Exterminators win Gold at ‘COVID-19 Restart Sri Lanka Awards’ Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The Exterminators, Sri Lanka’s premier environmental enhancement solutions provider won the Gold Award under the SME-Service Sector category at Restart Sri Lanka Resilience Awards 2020.
The event was jointly organized by the Prime Minister’s Office and (SLIM) Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing.
The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in new challenges across organizations. The SLIM Restart Resilience Awards 2020 was organized to recognize and reward the outstanding efforts of organizations which withstood and overcame the challenges resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Exterminators decided that to survive this unprecedented situation, the company needed to take some bold steps. Although it was a great risk, doing nothing was more of greater risk. Therefore, the following strategic steps were taken considering all factors while mitigating the risk of our employees, c
Forging the way to remarkable milestones, House of Indi, a leading fashion destination in Sri Lanka and its Founder and Creative Director, Indeevari Yapa Abeywardena have been duly recognized at two of the most prestigious awards ceremonies.
House
of Indi clinched Silver award under the Service Sector – SME category at the SLIM
Restart Resilience Awards 2020 while its Founder and Creative Director, Indeevari
Yapa Abeywardena has been acclaimed as the Outstanding Women Entrepreneur –
Small category at the Top 50 Professional and Career Women Awards – Sri Lanka
and Maldives 2020, held recently.
House
of Indi has been bestowed with this commendation for the formidable resilience
Feb 7, 2021
CONCORD â Highlighting both the ongoing support that the arts contribute to the health and well-being of the stateâs communities as well as the challenges the arts sector in New Hampshire has faced throughout the pandemic, the N.H. State Council on the Arts announced today that it is seeking nominations for the 2021 Governorâs Arts Awards.
Categories for the 2021 Governorâs Arts Awards include: Arts Education, Arts in Health, Creative Communities, Distinguished Arts Leadership, Folk Heritage, Individual Arts Champion and Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure, a lifetime achievement award.
A special category this year, Silver Lining Resilience Awards, will recognize innovative solutions created during the pandemic; these solutions may include the development of streaming programs, new partnerships or revenue streams, as well as creating new opportunities for individual artists. Five Silver Lining Resilience Awards, one for each Executive Council district,
Awarding resilience at the World Exhibition Stand Awards
The World Exhibition Stand Awards (WESA) have announced the launch of the World Exhibition Stand Resilience Awards, a chance to recognise some extraordinary achievements in what has become an extraordinary global environment for our sector.
The WESAs have traditionally celebrated the great stories of achievement on the exhibition show floor, and now they are introducing a new set of awards for 2021, specifically to recognise the resilience shown by exhibition industry professionals in these unusual times. The Resilience awards are free to enter.
The coronavirus pandemic has spawned many new inventions, events and activations and been a period of intense creativity, despite the many trials and tribulations. The new awards will provide the recognition and a meaningful celebration deserved by those showing their incredible powers of resilience in the exhibition design and build sector.
Cynch Security founders Susie Jones and Adam Selwood. Source: supplied.
Businesses overcame profound changes this year using creativity and ingenuity, with many industries shifting to remote work without losing sight of the wellbeing of their teams.
Arguably, the most originality happened on Zoom, where morning meetings turned into wellbeing check-ins and teams enjoyed virtual drinks and yoga sessions.
But the inventiveness did not stop there.
Businesses shortlisted in the People category of
SmartCompany’s 2020 Resilience Awards developed a host of creative ways to take care of their employees as national and state-wide coronavirus health restrictions played out.
Here are 10 ways these businesses took care of their employees this year.