Ceylinco Life has reopened its busy Nugegoda branch after a complete refurbishment that improves customer facilities and service while reducing the branch’s environmental footprint.
Located in one of the most densely populated suburbs of Colombo, the refurbished branch now features private discussion rooms to ensure customer privacy through specialised customer handling processes. It also has a parking facility with space for over 10 vehicles, which further enhances convenience for customers.
The branch was renovated according to the Reduce, Recycle, Reuse – 3R principle, the life insurance leader said. Equipped with energy-efficient artificial lighting and air conditioning systems, the building is also designed to operate with a battery backup, eliminating the need for a generator. This is the first time that this system has been implemented at a Ceylinco Life branch.
Ceylinco Life also recently laid the foundation stone for an eco-friendly branch building in Minuwangoda and has acquired a property in Matugama which will be converted into to a Company branch soon. Two other Green buildings are under construction for the Company’s branches in Ja-Ela and Matale and will be opened for operations in the first quarter of 2023.
The Company currently owns over 45 properties, including the buildings housing its offices in Anuradhapura, Trincomalee, Jaffna, Batticaloa, Kandy, Kalutara, Kurunegala, Gampaha, Galle, Matara, Tissamaharama, Negombo, Ratnapura, Kotahena, Mount Lavinia, and Wellawatte, many of which have already been converted to solar energy. Among the new branch buildings purpose-built to the company’s sustainable energy model are those at Horana, Panadura, Wennappuwa, Bandarawela, Chilaw, Kadawatha, Jaffna, Malabe, Divulapitiya, Negombo, Nelliady and Piliyandala.
Ceylinco Life operates the largest network of 256 branches in Sri Lanka’s life insurance industry, giving it a physical presence in 132 cities, towns, and villages in 24 districts.
Adjudged the ‘Most Valuable Life Insurance Brand in Sri Lanka’ by Brand Finance and certified a ‘Great Workplace’ in Sri Lanka for the third consecutive year in 2022, Ceylinco Life was declared Sri Lanka’s Service Brand of the Year by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) in 2021 and won the SLIM Kantar Peoples Award as the Most Popular Life Insurance Company in Sri Lanka for the 16th consecutive year, also in 2021. Ceylinco Life has been the country’s leading life insurer for more than half of the 34 years it has been in existence.
Other accolades won in respect of 2021 include the ‘Most Popular Service Provider’ in Sri Lanka’s Life Insurance industry from LMD, the ‘Most Valuable Life Insurance Brand’ in Sri Lanka from Brand Finance, one of the 10 Most Admired Companies in Sri Lanka from the International Chamber of Commerce Sri Lanka (ICCSL) in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and one of the 10 Best Workplaces in Sri Lanka’s Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector from Great Place to Work.
Ceylinco Life has close to a million lives covered by active policies and provides innovative life insurance solutions which offer protection while de-risking the goals and ambitions of the Company’s policyholders.
Photo caption:Ceylinco Life Chairman Mr R. Renganathan and Managing Director Mr Thushara Ranasinghe (above right and left respectively) at the opening of the refurbished Green branch in Nugegoda
