HNB fosters prosperity with bountiful ‘Avurudu Jayayi’ cards promotion

Honouring the values that define the Sinhala and Tamil New Year – togetherness, benevolence, and prosperity – Sri Lanka’s premier private sector bank HNB PLC is encouraging its cardholders to celebrate new beginnings in style with its new ‘HNB Avurudu Jayayi’ promotion.

Well known for its Avurudu promotions and discounts, HNB’s credit and debit card deals in 2021 aim to surpass customer expectations entirely by partnering with an even wider range of the most popular local and international retail brands. In keeping with the theme of prosperity, the seasonal card offers encompass multiple outlets in the fashion, hospitality, fine dining, supermarkets, online, healthcare, education, lifestyle, jewellery and autocare sectors.

“We’ve just come out of one of our most challenging years to date, and we’re beginning to return to a sense of normalcy. As the nation’s leader in retail banking, we’re committing to giving our customers unmatched value this well-deserved holiday season so that they can celebrate Avurudu to their heart’s desire,” commented HNB Head of Cards Gauthami Niranjan.

In response to the demands of its discerning clientele, the bank has also emphasised travel and hospitality this season by providing discounts of up to 70%. The limited-time offers are applicable to selected properties in the Jetwing hotel chain and more than 40 idyllic destinations island-wide.

Keeping pace with the latest consumer trends, HNB offers cardholders exclusive discounts of up to Rs. 42,000 off of Apple products, including iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches sold at Abans showrooms and on buyabans.com, together with attractive 0% instalment plans of up to 48 months. Similarly, customers can now upgrade their homes with premier white goods from Softlogic, Singhagiri, Singer, Damro, Arpico Furniture, Dinapala, Seetha Holdings, Hunters Thilawardhana Lifestore, Quantum fitness and many more will offer attractive discounts of up to 35% on selected items, complemented by easy payment instalment plans of up to 24 months.

“Above all, the Sinhala and Tamil New Year is a way of expressing gratitude – to nature, to tradition, and to each other. We’re hoping to honour this spirit with our Avurudu Jayayi promotion and display our genuine appreciation for our customers with these generous discounts and 0% instalment plans,” continued Gauthami. During the promotional period leading up to Avurudu, HNB credit cardholders can enjoy discounts of up to 25% off at leading retail outlets such House of Fashions, Odel, CIB, Kelly Felder, Cotton Collection, Leather Collection, Crocodile, Berverly Street, Diliganz, Spring and Summer, Shirtworks, DSI Premier and DSI, Hugo Boss, Under Armour, Dilly & Carlo, Cool Planet, Zigma Jones, Fashion bug and Hameedia , (Softlogic branded apparel such as Galleria, Odel.lk, Odel Sports, Levi’s, Luv SL, Nike, adidas originals, Adidas performance, Skechers, Aldo, Tommy Hilfiger, Mango, Diesel, Guess, Tissot, Mothercare, The Toy Store, Armani Exchanage, Fossil, International Watch Station, Sacoor Brothers, Furla, Luxe Bags, Love Moschino, Vero Moda, Carpisa, Yamamay, Clarks, Jack & Jones, American Tourister, Hallmark, Longines, Charles & Keith, Calvin Klein and Crocs). HNB debit cardholders will also entitled to 10% off on purchases at the same stores wherever applicable.

Ensuring that customers can entertain and celebrate in style during the season, the bank will also offer promotions in partnership with leading supermarket chains, Arpico Supercentres and daily outlets will offer 25% off on selected vegetables, fruits and seafood on weekends until the end of May, Softlogic Glomark will offer 20% off and 10% on the total bill for HNB credit and debit cardholders respectively, every Friday till end of April. Additionally, Keells Super is set to offer HNB credit cardholders 10% off on the total bill on Tuesdays between 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the same period, while Cargills offers an added 10% off on over 300+ Cargills BestBuys products till end March.

Further, HNB customers are encouraged to indulge at fine dining restaurants with their exclusive access to the bank’s range of discounts during this season. In particular, cardholders will be entitled to tantalising promotions at local restaurants and international franchises such as Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Taj Samudra, Galle Face Hotel, Maharaja Palace, Indian Summer Restaurant, Marino Beach hotel restaurants, & Co Pub & Kitchen, Crystal Jade, Asylum, PappaRich, Barista, Eastern Wok, Café Beverly, and Sizzle.

The bank extends further convenience and satisfaction to cardholders, through zero interest instalment plans up to 12 months in addition to these attractive discounts, for any credit card transaction till 30 April 2021.

Currently, HNB offers credit cards ranging from Visa Gold, Platinum, Signature and Infinite, as well as MasterCard Gold, Platinum and World, while each cardholder is provided with a host of other exclusive benefits, including the waiver of joining fees and free supplementary cards with no joining or annual fees with the longest interest-free credit period of 55 days for repayments.