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MEDIA RELEASEPallekele housewife wins Rs. 15 Mn luxury housein <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong>’s ‘<strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’ Grand DrawTouches the lives of 15,720 Sri Lankans from all parts of the country.Colombo. Friday 03 August 2012. Achala Nakkawita of Pallekele, a 27 year-oldmother of a four month old infant daughter became the lucky winner of the coveted Rs.15 million super luxury house in the ‘<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’ Grand Draw.Together with her husband Harsha and baby daughter Tharuki, she symbolicallyreceived the keys to her new house from Chairman <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong> Mohan Pieris PC at aglittering ceremony at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo, which was attended bythe senior management of the bank, the final draw winners and previous five monthlymillionaire winners as well as the media.An emotional and delighted Mrs. Nakkawita said that she initially felt no emotion themoment the news was broken to her by the <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong> officials. “I was stunned for afew moments and felt nothing. It was then that the reality dawned on me. The feelingwas unbelievable. Of course I had heard of ‘<strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’ since its launch inOctober last year but I never thought I would win the grand prize, leave alone even oneof the many other prizes offered by <strong>Seylan</strong>”.“I am absolutely delighted that by saving in <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong> I got the opportunity of winningthe biggest prize that anyone can ever dream of. All my family savings and investmentswill henceforth be with <strong>Seylan</strong> and I am specially going to open a <strong>Seylan</strong> Tikiri PlusAccount for my new born child’s future. I also invite everyone to join the growing <strong>Seylan</strong>family and thereby be a part of a winning team”, she added.Achala Nakkawita was a former staffer at an insurance company and later a MontessoriTeacher while her husband is also attached to an insurance company in Kandy. Theyboth have Savings Accounts with <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong>. “We’ve been banking with <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong>for many years due to its superlative service and the confidence we have in it. As I keeptelling everyone, it is undoubtedly the best bank and certainly the <strong>Bank</strong> with a Heart”,she said.The excitement began on 24 October 2011 when <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong> re-invigourated theconcept of banking rewards schemes in Sri Lanka with the launch of ‘<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong><strong>Thagi</strong>’ rewards scheme. This was a one-of-a-kind rewards scheme which offered dualbenefits and reward structures.The promotion began with an exciting teaser campaign where a number of helicopterswere used to drop coupons across the country with all 3300 <strong>Seylan</strong> staff members also
going door-to-door across the island distributing leaflets and giving away a total of Rs.01 million in prize money.Acclaimed as the most innovative rewards scheme in contemporary banking history inSri Lanka, ‘<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’ had one of the most unique prize schemes offeredby any <strong>Bank</strong> and was linked to eight of <strong>Seylan</strong>’s banking products thus offering thehighest number of winning chances to its customers.Over these past six months ‘<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’ has created six millionaires andhas meaningfully touched the lives of nearly sixteen thousand Sri Lankans from all partsof the country with a variety of prizes.These lucky customers won from a wide range of attractive prizes such as monthly Rs.01 Million, motor bikes, LCD TVs, refrigerators, home entertainment systems, sofa sets,lap tops, fully automatic washing machines, four-burner gas cookers and goldsovereigns each month.‘<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’ went several steps further and offered gifts over and abovethe customary gift scheme on offer for their account holders and customers, thus takingthe concept of rewards to a totally different platform which was connoted in the Brandname ‘<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’.With the highest number of qualifying products ever, ‘<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’ also had20 guaranteed monthly consolation winners (branch wise) in addition to the other luckymonthly winners.Says <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong> Chairman Mohan Pieris PC, “As we reach <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’sgrand finale, we are happy to have brought about a significant and meaningful changein the lives of many citizens in this country. Apart from the six millionaires who werecreated, thousands of others benefited through the gift scheme during these past sixmonths. We’re delighted to note that ‘<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong>’ has not only blazed atrail in Sri Lanka’s banking industry but has also rewarded so many Sri Lankans acrossthe country”.<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong>’s General Manager / CEO Kapila Ariyaratne said, “‘<strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong><strong>Thagi</strong>’ was yet another example of our commitment to constantly deliver greater valueto our customers by focusing on more innovative value propositions. We are extremelygratified that this rewards scheme rapidly became one of the most popular and soughtafter propositions in the financial services industry. As always we are fully committed toserve our thousands of customers across Sri Lanka and we invite all Sri Lankans toshare the benefits of being part of the ever growing <strong>Seylan</strong> family”.CAPTION FOR PHOTO - Chairman <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong> Mohan Pieris PC, symbolically handsover the key of the house worth Rs. 15 million to the winner of the <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Thagi</strong> <strong>Pita</strong><strong>Thagi</strong> Grand Draw Mrs. Achala Nakkawita. Also in the picture is <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong>’s GeneralManager/ CEO Kapila AriyaratneMedia ContactTilan Wijeyesekera, DGM (Marketing) <strong>Seylan</strong> <strong>Bank</strong> – Mobile : 077 2268 600Adahas PR – Tharindra de Silva. Mobile : 0777 560 611