October, 2016

MOTIBHAI & CO LIMITED

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Cancer fundraiser
ends on high note

Bushells Fijis Biggest Morning Tea gets bigger and better

Motibhai Group successfully
hosted the Bushells Fijis Biggest
Morning Tea (BFBMT) cancer
fundraiser at the Suva and Nadi
offices last month.
Collectively
raising
$17,663.20 in the two separate
events, the biggest cancer fundraiser in the country which
normally gets hosted by various
business houses across the country from August September
each year has been extended until
the end of October due to popular
demand.
Fiji Cancer Societys acting
president Phillip Low while delivering his official address at the
BFBMT event at the Motibhai
Group head-office on Wednesday,
September 28 said the society has
been inundated with requests
from various business houses and
in order to accommodate all the
requests, the time period for hosting the morning tea fundraiser

Motibhai Group executive director Mr Bhupendra

Patel shares a light moment with Fiji Cancer Society
acting president Phillip Low.

has been extended.

We wish to convey our heartfelt appreciation to everyone who
attended the Bushells Fiji's Biggest Morning Tea at our head-office and Suva office respectively
and donated generously towards

a noble cause, Motibhai Group

executive director Bhupendra Patel said.
For those who could not
make it this year due to busy
schedules and prior commitments, we look forward to your

Pandora goes PINK

Worlds leading contemporary jewellery manufacturer, PANDORA

has teamed up with various stakeholders to fight the battle against
breast cancer which is responsible for thousands of deaths across the
globe.
According to cancer.org, about one in eight (12%) women in the US
will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifespan listing breast
cancer as the second leading cause of cancer death in women.
Throughout October, PANDORA will go pink to help raise awareness and support for the National Breast Cancer Foundation and New
Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation, says Reshmi Singh, retail manageress of Prouds, retailers of PANDORA in Fiji.
She said PANDORA in partnership with its strong network of retailers which Prouds is part of has been actively involved in the Pink Ribbon campaign supporting the various organisations through the sale of
themed products since 2005.
This year sees the launch of a limited edition gift set featuring delicate earring studs and necklace pendant, Ms Singh informed.
We encourage PANDORA lovers to come out and support the battle against breast cancer and help raise awareness with the purchase of
the Pink Ribbon themed earring studs and necklace pendant.
She said since 1982, PANDORA's mission is to celebrate women by
offering them the opportunity for personal expression through our universe of high-quality and contemporary jewellery at affordable prices
and the philanthropic work done to raise breast cancer awareness is a
small way of giving back to customers around the globe.
Meanwhile, a special Breast Cancer Awareness day has been organised at all Prouds town and city stores on Wednesday, October 5.

Pandora has released

the pink ribbon collection
gift set to raise breast
cancer awareness.

Guests donated generously

and also enjoyed the morning
tea fundraiser at the same time.

presence aand support next year,

Mr Patel added.
Having said this, we look
forward to everyones continued
support in future to battle cancer
and raise awareness at the same
time.

Ten win with Betty Crocker

Ten lucky winners have won
a $500 Prouds shopping voucher
each following the successful
draw of the Bake A Treat with
Betty Crocker promotion which
was drawn on Friday, September
30.
The promotion which ran from
July 18 September 17 attracted
entries from all over Fiji.
We congratulate all the winners and it was encouraging to
see a lot of our customers from
the Northern Division participated in the promotion, Motibhai
Group marketing manager Abra-

ham Gomes said.

He said winners are now being
contacted and their names will be
published in The Fiji Times soon.
We wish to thank everyone
who participated in this promotion and look forward to similar
support in future promotions.
The iconic Betty Crocker
brand which has been offering
mouthwatering food ideas for
customers since 1921 is distributed in Fiji by Motibhai Group
bringing quality products for
you and your family. For recipes,
search hashtag #AskBetty.

Thats a winner... Sheline Naicker picks up a winning entry

while Motibhai Group sales manager Manwal Kumar looks on.
Alfred Bushell started the tea
business under his name in
1883 in Australia.

Bushells - brewing full flavoured conversations and

friendships for 133-years
Bushells has a long tradition of bringing people together for a good
chat over a great cuppa since 1883, and proud to be a familiar icon that
not only Australians but a relatively large number of Pacific Islanders
have grown up with a delicious taste of home.
A FAMILY AFFAIR
It all began with Alfred The Tea Man Bushell. An enterprising fellow, Mr Bushell was a tea dealer who moved up to Brisbane in 1883
after the death of his wife, Agnes a daughter of the famous Brooke
tea family. There he opened his very first tea shop, selling his own
distinctly delicious, full-flavoured tea. He was onto something as word
quickly spread about this smooth over-the-counter brew, and business
boomed.
A family business, Alfreds sons Walter and Phillip took his tasty tea
to Sydney to trade as Bushells and Company the Tea Men. Quickly,
they expanded from a roadside stall to selling tea wholesale, to become
Australias very first tea company, with their first Melbourne branch
opening soon after.
TEAM BUSHELLS BAND TOGETHER
After Alfreds death in 1910, Bushells Ltd was registered as a public company and rapidly expanded into Western Australia, Tasmania
and South Australia. This quick growth led to cash flow problems however and the bank was unwilling to help.
Phillip was worried, so he brought his staff together to share the
situation and his fears. But, the Bushells community spirit was strong:
employees chipped in from their own finances to help, opting to be
paid back in shares rather than cash ending up very well off.

AN AUSSIE ICON
In 1920 Bushells bought land in todays The Rocks area of Sydney
Sydney.
Here they built a seven-storey factory that housed progressive new
blending and packing methods, plus Bushells HQ. The building remained with Bushells for over 40-years, and is still an iconic part of
Sydneys story today.
Bushells continued to boom moving into New Zealand in 1937 by
personally offering every housewife on the electoral roll a half a pound
of tea, free. The generosity paid off as Bushells became a huge player
in the NZ tea market.
Today the brand is owned by Unilever a multinational consumer
goods company and is distributed in Fiji by Motibhai Group, bringing
y.
quality products for you and your family.

Wash and win with OMO

Over the past months, we have

published a lot of good articles
about Omo and how it has positioned itself as the worlds leading laundry powder brand.
Apart from cleaning your
clothes with only one scrub, helping kids go out and do what they
want to do without having to
worry about dirt and helping the
earth by using eco-friendly ingredients and thereby reducing the
impact of global warming, there
are five more reasons to choose
only Omo.
Yes you just read that right!
The team at Omo has launched

a lucrative promotion in partnership with Beko the number one

home appliance brand in United
Kingdom.
Omo is the leading brand in
laundry detergent while Beko is a
market leader in Europe for home
appliances and we have teamed
the two winning brands together
to create a promotion for our
customers Fiji-wide, Motibhai
Group marketing manager Abraham Gomes says.
We will be giving away a
Beko washing machine along
with a dryer (two separate units)
to five lucky customers who have

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OMO is
ideal for both
machine and
hand wash.

time until November 12 to enter

the draw by sending the barcode
of their Omo packet to the specified address on our advertisements and posters, Mr Gomes
adds.
He said customers can enter as
many times as possible.

So try your luck on winning

these amazing prizes by entering
as many times as you wish to.
Omo is distributed in Fiji by
Motibhai Group bringing quality products for you and your
family.

Motibhai Business Park takes shape

NADI, Fiji Thursday, September 29, 2016. Work on the gigantic Motibhai Business Park is
progressing well despite the setback due to tropical cyclone Winston and prevailing bad weather
early in the year.
Motibhai Group executive
director Bhupendra Patel who is
overseeing this $30 million project is adamant that the second
phase of the project which is the
warehouse for cold and dry storage should be operational by the
first quarter of next year.
We should have expected an
earlier turnaround if it was not for
the delays caused by TC Winston
and associated bad weather pattern which gripped the country in
the earlier part of the year, Mr
Patel said.
Nonetheless, we are happy
with the work done so far as the
structure we had in mind for our
warehouse has now taken shape
with roofing works to be completed in a week or two, Mr Patel added.
He said the third phase of the
project will be the construction of
a new office complex adjacent to
the warehouse.
Plans for the third stage being the headquarters is now in the
final stages and will go on tender

soon.
The project which started in
November last year covers an
area of nearly 14,000 square
meters setting a platform for
Motibhai Group to strategically
position itself for all its diverse
business operations as well as future expansions.
The new business park will
be a one-stop-shop comprising
of executive and administration
offices, warehouse, showroom,
joinery and mechanical workshops, visual department, staff

canteen & amenities together

with cold storage facilities to
cater for Burger King Fiji operations, said Mr Patel.
At the moment our warehouses are scattered all over the
place from Ba up to Nadi and the
new complex will have a centralized operation to make day-today operations much smoother
and efficient for us.
On a greener side, our Business Park will have solar panels
to supply energy minimizing consumption of electricity and will

also have rain water harvesting

system for the re-use of water
which all speaks of our strong
corporate social responsibility
and our concern for the society.
Conveniently located at West
Road in Legalega Subdivision
along the Queens Highway, the
Motibhai Business Park is all set
to become a major landmark in
the entire western division upon
completion has been designed by
LHM and is being constructed by
Ba based Western Builders Limited.

Prouds adds class to

duty-free shopping in PNG
It has been an exciting one-year for Prouds since the leading Fijian
retailer and duty-free outlet opened up for business at the Jacksons
International Airport in Papua New Guinea.
The stores which are featured prominently at the arrival and departure areas of PNGs gateway to the world was officially opened by
Prime Minister Peter ONeill on Thursday, July 2, 2015.
The past 14-months has been very exciting and challenging for
us, Prouds PNG manager Kiran Rathod says.
The timing of our official opening last year coincided with the
launching of the 2015 Pacific Games which PNG hosted and it was
a really great way to start business in the fastest growing pacific nation, Mr Rathod added.
He says Prouds is well positioned to provide the best products and
shopping experience to travellers for now and for the future.
Aligned with the latest international duty free, travel retail trends,
we carry international and major brands of liquor, tobacco, fragrances, confectionaries, watches and jewellery.

Prouds PNG staff in a jovial mood while celebrating Independence

Day.

With the wide range of international brands, travellers are able

to purchase with confidence getting good value for their money, Mr
Rathod said.

Prouds hosts Chinese Moon Festival in Lautoka

The Chinese community of Lautoka took advantage of the special Chinese Moon
Festival celebration hosted by Prouds on the evening of Wednesday, September 14.
Being the second largest festival observed by Chinese people worldwide, the
Chinese Moon Festival also known as Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated with great
pomp and passion for shopping and food with Fiji being no exception.
While other Prouds branches such as Suva Central and Downtown Nadi have
been celebrating the event with a themed shopping night event with lots of food and
entertainment together with discounts on branded items, the Chinese community
got to take advantage of this special sale in Lautoka for the first time.
Looking at the number of Chinese customers based in Lautoka, we decided to
bring the celebrations closer to them in the city, Prouds Lautoka store manageress
Pranita Nand said.
Since this was the first time for us to host such an event, we can say it will be
getting bigger and better in future.
"We also had refreshments such as mooncakes and wines.
Chinese lecturer Guilan Chang who is a frequent customer of Prouds says she is
looking forward to the event next year.

Prouds Suva Central manager Nilesh Chand hands

over one of the prizes to a lucky customer.

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Sales training 2016 held in Suva

A special one and a half day
training for the sales team of Motibhai Group was conducted at
the Walu Bay office on September 10 and 11.
Led by Sales Manager Manwal Ajay Kumar, the training was
aimed at improving customer service and overall performance of
the sales team.
Motibhai Group director
Rajesh Patel says training is an
important element of the sales
team and it will be carried out
atleast once a year from now on.
He thanked staff members
who sacrificed their weekend
away from family and friends to
be part of the training.
Staff members from all divisions attended the training. The

training was an opportune time to

inform staff members about the

new products which will now be

part of the quality products dis-

tributed by Motibhai Group Fijiwide.

PICTORIAL

Brett Neill, Group Sales Manager Oceania of SEIKO Australia Pty

Ltd hands over a gift of appreciation to Madhu Naidu for outstanding performace while Motibhai Group executive director Bhupendra
Patel and Prouds director retail Tejash Patel look on.

New Zealands iconic wine brand Matua was part of the Fiji Regatta
Yacht Race 2016 at the Musket Cove Island Resort last month.

OBITUARY

We miss you Jon

Sadness has gripped Motibhai Group as we mourn the untimely
passing away of our colleague Dominic Jonathan Fiu who passed away
in Nadi on September, 9, 2016.
Fiu, 34, was the head of advertising and based at the head-office in
Nadi Airport.
While presenting the reguregu to Fius family in Nadi, Motibhai
Group deputy CEO Manu Patel said the entire company is extremely
saddened with the untimely passing away of a very young and talented
person.
A sea of mourners united in grief to pay their final respect to Fiu
who was buried at the Nasinu Cemetery on Wednesday, September 14.
He will be missed forever...May his soul rest in peace.

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Workmates Minnel Krishnan

and Margaret Fatai pay their
final respect.

Published by Manager Public Relations | Corporate Marketing Shalendra Prasad

Mobile:- 7777519 Email:- prasad.shalendra@motibhai.com.fj