Exterminators wins Gold at COVID-19 Restart Sri Lanka Awards

Exterminators Director Marketing Travis Ferreira, Exterminators Founder/MD Marlon Ferreira and SLIM Project Chairman Gayan Perera

The Exterminators Ltd., 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 organised by the Prime Minister’s Office of Sri Lanka and (SLIM) Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing. 

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in new challenges across organisations. The SLIM Restart Resilience Awards 2020 was organised to recognise and reward the outstanding efforts of organisations which withstood and overcame the challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Exterminators decided that in order to survive this unprecedented situation, the company needed to take some bold steps. Although it was a great risk, doing nothing was more of a greater risk. Therefore, the following strategic steps were taken considering all factors while mitigating the risk of its employees, customers, community and suppliers.  Exterminators ‘High Risk COVID-19’ team with eight specialised disinfectors working from office and five sales and operations staff working from home, ventured into a brand new industry named ‘Anti-Microbial Disinfection’. The services were provided countrywide even during curfew/lockdown periods to help the community to fight COVID-19 and businesses all over Sri Lanka to get back to business.

Exterminators disinfected 71 ‘Elders’ Homes’ covering over 350,000 sq ft, 30 Police stations in Colombo and Kandy covering over 260,000 sq ft, and 13 religious places in Colombo covering over 150,000 sq ft. Exterminators disinfected schools, railway stations, bus stations, underpass and South Asia’s tallest tower, The Lotus Tower, area covering over 200,000 sq ft. 

Since March 2020, Exterminators has increased salaries of all employees by 10-50% while the directors’ salaries were reduced by 40%. Four motorbikes were donated to the high-risk COVID team members. Reduced prices by 5% for all contract and non-contract customers for a period of 12 months and special rates was offered to the hotel industry. 

Since 15 March 2020 Exterminators has disinfected hundreds of private businesses, Government institutes, diplomatic missions to help them to get back to business within hours of COVID-19 attack travelling throughout the island day and night. 

Founder/Managing Director Marlon Ferreira stated: In this unprecedented situation we are proud of the small part we played in helping the community specially the highly vulnerable  senior citizens of Sri Lanka Police to fight COVID-19 and to help businesses to get back to business within hours.”