Transcom Beverages awards top performers

Transcom Beverages awarded the company's top performers of 2016 at its annual conference for 2017.

The company also reviewed its business activities of last year and set strategies for the current year, at the event held at the Le Meridien hotel in Dhaka on January 7, Transcom Beverages said in a statement.

The company's Customer Executive Rezaul Karim was awarded as the "CE of the Year", Territory Development Manager Sohel Rana received the "TDM of the Year" award, while Marketing Manager Md Arif Hossain won the "Award of Excellence".

Chairman of Transcom Beverages Latifur Rahman, Directors Shahnaz Rahman, Atiqur Rahman and Simeen Hossain, Managing Director Golam Quddus Chowdhury and Deputy Managing Director Khurshid Irfan Chowdhury attended the event.

The programme started by paying tributes to late Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain, according to the statement.

Transcom Beverages, a unit of Transcom Group, is the only franchise of PepsiCo in Bangladesh. The popular brands of this group include Pepsi, 7Up, 7Up Light, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Pepsi Diet, Slice and Aquafina.

Transcom Chairman Latifur Rahman urged everyone to work together to achieve more success.

Transcom Beverages has been the leader in the carbonated soft drink industry for the last few years.

The company has won the "Bottler of the year" title in the India region for six times along with the award for the best plant in the entire region.

Transcom Beverages has also won the title of "International Bottler of the Year" in 2009, the most prestigious award from PepsiCo. 7Up, a brand of PepsiCo, has been awarded as the best beverages brand for seven times in a row by Bangladesh Brand Forum.