Bank of Ceylon invites customers for Avurudu Ganu Denu on 15 April

Friday, 8 April 2016 00:00 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}

Bringing new inspiration whilst preserving the true sense of Avurudu spirit, the bankers to the nation, Bank of Ceylon invites customers to conduct Avurudu ‘Ganu-Denu’ for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year on 15 April. As always, keeping up with Sri Lankan traditions the bank will be serving traditional ‘Avurudu refreshments’ to all its customers on that day to celebrate ‘Avurudu Ganu-Denu’ with BOC.

Preserving national traditions the bank wishes to encourage every Sri Lankan to celebrate Sinhala and Tamil Avurudu more meaningfully with their families during New Year auspicious times that fall on 13 April. The bank invites all its valuable customers to come with their families especially their children on 15 April to experience this tradition of Ganu-Denu and receive gifts for ‘Ran-Kekulu’ accounts ranging from Dialogue ‘Suraksha’ Phones, cricket-bats, educational toys-loom band sets, Grade 5 scholarship paper sets, ‘Atlas’ map books, remote control cars and stylish dolls set with accessories.

The bank hopes to encourage children to cultivate the habit of saving this Avurudu Season through this valuable gift scheme. The Bank of Ceylon will keep this offer open through its island-wide branch network until stocks last. Customers can enjoy this special Avurudu gifts by opening a new Ran-Kekulu account or depositing money to an existing account at any BOC branch. The Bank of Ceylon wishes all its customers and all Sri Lankans a happy and a prosperous New Year.

The Bank of Ceylon was named as the Strongest Bank in the country for the year 2015 by the prestigious ‘The Asian Banker’ and it earned global recognition as one of the top 1000 banks in the world, (Country rank No.1) as listed by ‘The Banker Magazine’ (UK) respectively in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. The Bank of Ceylon won the overall Gold Award at the NBEA Awards Ceremony 2015 with five other ‘Winner’ awards. The bank claimed its award as the only Sri Lankan brand recognised as one of Asia’s Best Brands in 2013 by the Chief Marketing Officer’s Council (CMO Council) based in Mumbai, India.

Brand Finance Lanka ranked Bank of Ceylon as the country’s No. 1 brand for the last seven consecutive years. The bank has passed exceptional milestones in recent years such as becoming the first to gain over Rs. 1.5 trillion assets and over Rs. 1 trillion deposits. Focusing on the bank’s achievement, Fitch Rating Lanka ranked the Bank of Ceylon at AA+(lka) which is the highest rating awarded to a local commercial bank and ICRA (lk) awarded AAA rating which is the highest credit quality rating issued by ICRA Lanka. Bank of Ceylon maintains international presence with three overseas branches and a subsidiary in London.