NOLIMIT wins big at JASTECA Taiki Akimoto 5S Competition 2013
Thursday, 6 February 2014 00:00
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Walks away with 10 prominent awards, whilst winning the Silver award and Nagaaki Yamamoto KAIZEN award in the competition and taking pride in being recognized as one of Sri Lanka’s leading 5S practitioners
Sri Lanka’s biggest retail fashion chain NOLIMIT was crowned with 10 prominent awards at the recently concluded JASTECA Taiki Akimoto 5S competition 2013, including its Ratnapura branch winning the 5S competitions’ Silver Award and also becoming the Trade & Service Sector winner (Medium Category) for the second consecutive year. The competition was organised by the Japan Sri Lanka Technical and Cultural Association (JASTECA).
Based on the company’s success at last year’s competition, NOLIMIT entered 19 of its showrooms for this years’ competition, all of which qualified for the preliminary audit round conducted by the Audit panel of JASTECA.
While all showrooms were hailed as proven 5S practitioners, three NOLIMIT showrooms - Ratnapura, Kandy and Kegalle were amongst the selected few who competed in the final round.
The final round of Audit was conducted by a panel led by the renowned Expert, Prof. Seiichi FUJITA, Ph.D of Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda Business School – Japan.
During the awards, NOLIMIT Ratnapura was awarded the Silver Award in the Taiki Akimoto 5S competition and the winner of the Trade & Service sector.
Merit award winners included NOLIMIT’s Kandy, Kegalle, Kurunegala, Nugegoda and Maharagama showrooms while certificates of compliance were awarded to NOLIMIT Dehiwala, Borella and Ratmalana showrooms.
In recognition of its commitment towards having continuous improvement throughout the organisation NOLIMIT was recognised as the winner of the prestigious Nagaaki Yamamoto KAIZEN award which was jointly won by NOLIMIT Ratnapura, Kandy, Kegalle and GLITZ Negombo.
Speaking about this achievement NOLIMIT Training & Development Manager Roshal Kotigala said: “Over the past years we have been working very hard to improve the 5S standards across all our showrooms, and to have walked away with 10 awards at a national competition to recognise 5S excellence is a truly amazing and rewarding experience that we can all be proud of and cherish in the years to come. Such a landmark achievement will only motivate us to excel in our service standards and provide a rewarding shopping experience to our customers. We are proud to be recognised as one of the leading practitioners of 5S and KAIZEN in Sri Lanka.”
