by Bess | Dec 3, 2022
Arogya World, a non-profit organization working to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through health education and lifestyle change, today announced their 2022 Healthy Workplaces and recognized 34 Indian & global companies for championing workplace health at their annual Healthy Workplace Conference and Awards flagship event. The organization recognized these Healthy Workplaces for promoting holistic health and well-being which includes the mental, physical, and emotional well-being of employees while focusing on healthy lifestyles for addressing NCD prevention and mental well-being at the workplace.
As on date, Arogya World has recognized 186 companies as Healthy Workplaces, spanning over 5.83 million employees.
The 2022 Healthy Workplace companies are
1. Mercedes-Benz
2. State Bank of India
3. Mumbai International Airport
4. Sony Entertainment Television
5. HCL
6. Tata Motors
7. Adecco
8. Coffee Board
9. Mikro Grafeio
10. Avian WE
11. LV Prasad Eye Hospital
12. Bagmane
13. RMZ – CBRE
14. Fresenius – Kabi
15. GarbhaGudi IVF Centre
16. Aprava (Jhajjar Power)
17. CGI
18. Vedanta Limited (Jharsuguda)
19. Cairn Oil & Gas
20. Bharat Aluminium Company Limited
21. Vedanta Limited (Lanjigarh)
22. Ferro Alloys Corporation Limited
23. Talwandi Sabo Power Limited
24. Vedanta Ltd- Sesa Goa Iron Ore Business
25. Hindustan Zinc Limited
26. ESL Steel Limited
27. Sterlite Copper
28. Department of Tourism (Karnataka)
29. Quess Staffing
The Healthy Workplace program accreditation is a rigorous assessment that involves interaction with eminent Industry Health Experts. Along with Arogya team, they evaluate and ascertain the interventions implemented by the organization based on Arogya World’s healthy workplaces criteria aligned with the WHO guidelines. It primarily involves Leadership engagement, physical health criteria (like healthy eating, tobacco cessation, and physical activity), and also mental health criteria introduced by Arogya World for the first time in 2020 in response to COVID.
Dr. Nalini Saligram, Founder of Arogya World & An Ashoka Fellow, said, “Employees are the biggest asset of a company. NCDs have a devastating economic impact and we all have seen that some have experienced the worst during COVID. Workplaces are where people spend a significant part of their day. Therefore if we can get workplaces to champion healthy living, we can surely fight against NCDs. I firmly believe that healthy workplaces are a smart solution to the global NCD crisis. In fact, they are one of the most sustainable, scientific, and scalable solutions and that is what Arogya World’s healthy workplaces program is all about. The result is for everyone to experience – the employer benefits through reduced absenteeism and increased productivity, employees benefit with improved health, and the Nation benefits as it advances the fight against NCDs. Today, more than ever, health is being increasingly recognized as a strategic pillar in the workplace of the future. We congratulate all 2022 Healthy Workplaces for demonstrating leadership in workplace health”.
Arogya World also recognized 5 exemplary companies namely, Tata Consultancy Services, Larsen & Toubro, Manipal Cigna, Indian Oil, and Haleon, for attaining the Platinum level, the highest level of honor defined by the Arogya World’s Healthy Workplace program, and for demonstrating a data-driven culture of health. These companies stand for excellence in employee health, with demonstrated improvements in health metrics over time, making these companies true ambassadors of workplace health. This brings the total number of Platinum Healthy Workplaces to 40 in the Arogya community.
Arogya World helps you build, sustain and scale the health quotient of the company. We offer additional tools and services like lifestyle coach, behavior change training, MyThali program for eating right, Webinars on mental wellness, and mHealth solutions (leveraging technology) to enable individual employees on their health journeys.
Dr. Ashish Jain, Head – Employee Health and wellbeing at GSK, & Advisory HWP Arogya World says, “Designing and efficiently implementing Healthy workplaces is no more a good to-do but a must-do for every corporate. And today more than ever healthy workplaces extend beyond our regular workplaces, into the homes of individuals. As a corporate, we need to be mindful and more accountable for the holistic health and well-being of an individual and the family. Having said that, it doesn’t undermine an individual’s role in this wellness journey.”
Arogya World has always believed that workplaces are a smart platform for tackling NCDs. We firmly believe that the Arogya World Healthy Workplace Conference has helped in advancing the dialogue of workplace health in India and continues to build on the momentum. Over 77 million Indians live with diabetes, Indians develop type 2 diabetes in their 30s and 40s, at the peak of their productivity, and 10 years earlier than most Westerners, making the public health burden in the country truly alarming. According to the World Health Organization, NCDs are largely preventable with lifestyle changes – 80% of heart disease, 80% of diabetes and 40% of cancer can be prevented by avoiding tobacco, eating healthy foods, and increasing physical activity. Prevention through healthy living is Arogya World’s focus.
It’s time to take collective responsibility and lead the conversation.
About Arogya World:
A non-profit organization, Arogya World (www.arogyaworld.org), a recipient of the prestigious 2022 UN Interagency Task Force and the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award, has been working for more than a decade to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCD), – diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and chronic lung diseases – through health education and lifestyle change. Arogya World targets workplaces for chronic disease prevention because work is where so many people spend a large part of their day.
For more information contact:
Kriti Pradhan
Head – Communications
kriti@arogyaworld.org
+91 7506193435
Arogya World
by Bess | Dec 1, 2022
Leading towards the IPO plans, CIEL HR Services, one of the leading workforce and skilling solution companies in India, is taking strides in its expansion plans by organic as well as inorganic growth.
Charting its inorganic growth journey, CIEL announced a strategic investment today into Next Leap Career Solutions Private Limited (Brand name: Jombay) by signing a definitive agreement to acquire its 100% equity stake in tranches. This acquisition is part of its strategic vision to expand its offering in the HR services space. With this acquisition, CIEL Group strengthens its position further as a workforce solutions company leveraging technology.
Jombay’s technology solutions are used by more than 500 marquee organizations for identifying and building great managers and leaders and making them future ready. Every year more than 200,000 managers and leaders go through Jombay’s Assessments & Development programs. It is a “made in India, made for the world” platform built by a team of Business Psychologists, Engineers and Product Entrepreneurs. Jombay enjoys a strong HR community connect including the HR40under40 initiative. Pi Capital and Legalogic has advised Jombay through this deal and NovoJuris represented CIEL.
Recording a 80% growth in y-o-y revenue for H1’ 22-23, CIEL continues to chart its organic growth journey by expanding its geographic footprint and service offerings. CIEL operates from 74 offices across 50 locations now; continues to expand further. New service offerings introduced recently are:
· Started EPC Staffing vertical to cater to the specialised recruiting and staffing needs of Oil and Gas, Energy, Process and Power sectors.
· Started offering services under NAPS (National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme) under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India.
· Accelerated Managed Services Programmes to help companies optimise their IT operations via SLA-based plug-and-play solutions.
· Launched CielJobs 2.0, India’s first SkillTech platform to expand our reach among candidates and thereby increase mandate conversion in the Staffing business; also, to attract employers to post jobs and generate applications.
· Introduced CIEL Rapid, hi-tech hi-touch initiative to cater to the recruitment needs of SMEs (small and medium enterprises) and startups
ProSculpt leverages CIEL HR’s immense industry network to bring to educational institutions and students the best opportunities for final placements and internships. ProSculpt is also a pioneer in providing consulting and industrial immersion opportunities for the faculty members. Industry reaps the huge benefits of reaching in an agile way a wide and diverse spectrum of talented freshers seeking employment and internships while leveraging the capabilities of a hitherto untapped talent pool, the faculty members of the colleges and universities.
The ProSculpt platform also enables students access a wide array of learning content and assess themselves and plan their learning journey towards higher job-related knowledge and skills. For students, this gives them a Ma Foi employability score that reflects their competence in their chosen domain and goads them to invest in their own growth. To employers, the Ma Foi score is a validated score for quick short listing and acts as an aid in the hiring process. ProSculpt eliminates the divide between urban and non-urban colleges and provides a level playing field, for students, for both learning and internship opportunities and final placements.
The platform offers a plethora of services like placement preparatory programme, upskilling courses, student community connect, wellness programs and much more.
Commenting on the occasion, Mr. K Pandiarajan, Executive Chairperson and Director – Ma Foi Group & CIEL Group said, “I take this opportunity to congratulate the team for expanding its technological capabilities that solidifies the leading position of CIEL as a brand in the Indian HR services space. 80% growth in H1 and the onset of the inorganic journey shows the growth ambitions and the inherent strength of the brand. I am confident that CIEL, the fastest growing player among the Top 10 in India’s HR industry, will continue to lead the innovations and emerge as one of the Top 5 workforce and skilling solution companies in India by 2025.”
Talking about the Jombay acquisition, Mr. Aditya Narayan Mishra, Managing Director & CEO – CIEL HR Services said “This acquisition, in line with our IPO plans, is part of our strategic vision to expand our technology-led offerings in the HR services domain. Moreover, it will complement our existing subsidiary Integrum Solutions operating in HR technology space and will help us expand our client portfolio in the market. With this acquisition, we penetrate deeper in the market and expand our margins.”
Mr. Mohit Gundecha, CEO – Next Leap Career Solutions (Jombay), said “We are excited to combine forces with CIEL having a vast customer base and industry-leading geographic footprint in the HR services sector. This will help Jombay further expand its customer footprint and market penetration of its product portfolio mix across Talent Management, Capability building, Talent Identification and Succession Planning.”
Speaking on the launch of ProSculpt, Mr. Rajiv Krishnan, Managing Director & CEO – Ciel Skills & Careers and MaFoi Strategy said “We are happy to introduce ProSculpt as a disruptor that will bring the universes of students, educational institutions, faculty and industry much closer together eliminating the wide-spread Type A/ Type B hiring errors; cutting through the urban and semi-urban divide; and, moderating and eliminating the vernacular and English medium divide. It gives students control over their destinies by providing vast learning and self-improvement opportunities and access to coaches, mentors and wellness guides. For the faculties, often a forgotten but hugely important and pivotal part of the campus experience, ProSculpt brings immense opportunities for immersive learning and consulting. We are confident that ProSculpt will holistically transform student skilling, learning and employability and fulfil industry’s insatiable appetite for bright and highly skilled talent.
by Bess | Nov 30, 2022
Zetwerk Manufacturing, the global source of manufacturing across industrial and consumer products, today announced it has acquired Unimacts, a leading manufacturing services company operating within various industries including industrial products, material handling, and renewable energy segments.
Zetwerk’s acquisition of Unimacts will position the company for additional expansion and diversification, providing immediate access to marquee solar and wind-power customers. Additionally, Zetwerk will gain access to the large-scale consolidated demand Unimacts has generated thus far, which will be serviced by the company’s massive global supply base. Similarly, the company will benefit from Unimacts’ notable industry expertise in renewable energy manufacturing and an endless supply of highly specified mechanical products, logistics support, design for manufacturing, inventory management, and near-customer warehousing.
The executive team at Unimacts, including Matthew Arnold, CEO, Andrew Woglom, CFO, and Alan Hays, COO, along with the team at Unimacts, will be joining Zetwerk, bringing the global employee count to 1,900.
For Unimacts, this acquisition will equip the company with the necessary capital to scale up its presence in the U.S., Europe and Mexico, along with access to a strong off-shore footprint in India and Vietnam. Overall, Unimacts’ customer relations, supply partners and business operations will remain unaffected.
“Unimacts’ offerings in the U.S., Europe and Mexico markets complement our existing portfolio and vision of being a global leader in the manufacturing space,” said Amrit Acharya, Co-founder and CEO of Zetwerk. “This acquisition will immediately expand our presence in North America and position Zetwerk for additional expansion in the coming months. We are excited to usher in a new era of intelligent manufacturing for our customers, partners, and our planet.”
“Over the last decade, we have been working to scale our global supply chain and contract manufacturing businesses to better serve customers throughout North America and Western Europe,” said Matthew Arnold, CEO of Unimacts. “Partnering with Zetwerk will allow us to accelerate our growth and global reach and provide more comprehensive solutions to our customers. With the recent $1.2 Trillion infrastructure bill and Inflation Reduction Act, the renewable energy sectors of solar and wind in the US are poised for significant growth. These have been the primary end markets for Unimacts over the last five years and we are excited to pursue significant growth in these markets with our new partners. We strongly believe that joining the Zetwerk family will translate into broader offerings for customers in the U.S. and around the world, increase growth opportunities for employees and facilitate new business opportunities for our suppliers”.
Zetwerk’s 2021-2022 financial results showcased strong growth across categories. The company’s gross merchandise value grew six-fold, to $770 Million from $130 Million, and the operating revenue expanded to $670 Million from $110 Million in 2020-2021. The company is on track to do well over $1 billion of revenue in the current fiscal year.
“With this acquisition and expansion in North America, Zetwerk is well positioned to help even more businesses create self-reliant supply chains in renewable energy and infrastructure,” said Vaibhav Agrawal, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and Zetwerk Board Member.“Gleaned through deep manufacturing and internet experiences, Zetwerk co-founders have built an intelligent platform for customers to maximize manufacturing capacity, reliability and scope at the click of a button. This is why Fortune 500 enterprises are expanding their purchase volumes, securing orders from Zetwerk 3-5 years in advance.”
Zetwerk has more than 2000 customers across North America, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, and a network of more than 10,000 manufacturing partners worldwide.
For more information about Zetwerk, please visit zetwerk.com.
About Zetwerk
Zetwerk Manufacturing is the global source of manufacturing across industrial and consumer products. It helps various brands transform digital designs into physical manifestations. Zetwerk offers manufacturing solutions across a diverse range of products, from simple and complex products to industrial and consumer use cases, for small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. Zetwerk’s industry-leading global manufacturing capabilities ensure products are manufactured faster, at competitive prices, and utilizing best-in-class materials. Zetwerk offers a broad range of services, including metal fabrication, CNC machining, aluminium die casting, 3D printing and plastic injection molding. Zetwerk uses domain-specialized teams and a suite of software across its suppliers and customers — matching, production & project management, quality, pricing and logistics to make manufacturing predictable, transparent, and reliable. The Zetwerk team consists of the world’s leading engineers and innovators dedicated to future-proofing the creation of an undisrupted supply chain. For more information, please visit https://www.zetwerk.com/.
About Unimacts
Unimacts is a leading global contract manufacturing and supply chain solutions company with focus on renewable energy, as well as construction equipment and industrial products. Unimacts has developed asset-light sourcing solutions to supply highly specified mechanical products and provide complementary logistics support, design for manufacturing, inventory management, and near-customer warehousing. It is involved in the supply of solar tracker components (torque tubes, solar piles, drives, etc.), wind turbine components (fabrications, castings, fiber-reinforced plastics, etc.), and other industrial products (electro-mechanical assemblies, castings, fabrications, etc.). For more information, please visit https://www.unimacts.com/
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by Bess | Jul 11, 2017
Cuemath reaches a key milestone with 20K students
Continues to impart world class math learning program to teach math as a life skill
Bangalore, India – July 11, 2017:
Cuemath, India’s leading home-based, after-school learning program for mathematics touches 20,000 students and 2500 centers across 80 cities.
“This is an important milestone for us and it’s only the beginning,” said Manan Khurma, Cuemath’s founder, and CEO. “Our vision is to create thinkers and problem solvers of tomorrow. We believe this can be achieved through a robust foundation in mathematics by helping children learn mathematics the right way. We’re built on the idea that math is a life skill and therefore we want children to be math literate, not just learn math for an exam. Our curriculum has been thought through and designed keeping this in mind with a strong focus on mental aptitude and creative reasoning, along with school curriculum, helping them become better problem solvers.”
Learning Math can be difficult for most kids, mainly because of the traditional ways of teaching the subject which encourages kids to rote learn formulae. Cuemath addresses just thisthrough its personalized program that is learning based on discovery and by doing. Every Cuemath Center has only 6 to 8 students in a batch. This self-paced program also helps students assimilate concepts at their own pace, making them confident in the subject, one session at a time.
Cuemath Teacher Partners, the teachers who facilitate the Cuemath program, are handpicked from a vast pool of highly qualified and educated women who undergo several rounds of training before they start their centres from their homes. These teachers become facilitators of the math curriculum built by Cuemath and receive continued training even after they become certified Cuemath teachers. Each Cuemath session is about 60-minutes and is designed in a way, to help children on specific topics of school math which is taught through Cuemath workbooks, mental aptitude through gamification and tablets, and creative reasoning through puzzle cards.
While Cuemath facilitates learning offline, at the homes of the Cuemath Teacher Partners, parents can get regular and continuous updates about their child’s progress in real time through Cueparent, the Cuemath app for parents. Teachers can monitor progress and customize the program using Cueteacher, the Cuemath app for teachers. Cuemath’s holistic learning system is self-paced, and is standardized to give children the same learning experience irrespective of the center they join into.
About Cuemath
Founded in 2013, Cuemath is a home-based after-school, multi-format math learning program that brings together the best of technology and personal teaching. Through a unique curriculum and dedicated teachers across India, Cuemath is imparting conceptual understanding and analytical thinking of the subject with an aim to teach math as a life skill. Cuemath had earlier raised $4.1 million in its Series A round of funding from Sequoia India in February 2015. Their seed funding was raised in 2014 from Unitus Seed Fund and Alok Mittal, a well-known early-stage investor. Earlier this year, Cuemath raised $15 million in its Series B round of funding from CapitalG (formerly known as Google Capital) and Sequoia India.
by Bess | Jun 24, 2017
One Nation One TAX- Videocon and ASSOCHAM organized a GST Summit for traders. The summit is headed by Chief Guest Shri. R.V. Deshpande, Honourable Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industries, Department of Commerce & Industries,Government of Karnataka. Shri. Narayan Swamy, Commissioner – Service Tax, Bengaluru also gave his valuable thoughts.
Videocon is spreading awareness & knowledge about GST in 200 cities, The national rollout of the ASSOCHAM-Videocon GST Summit went well in bengaluru wtih overflowing crowd. Lot of traders got decent knowledge on GST during this summit and lot of trade doubts were cleared.
Shri. R.V. Deshpande, Honourable Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industries, Department of Commerce and Industries, Government of Karnataka said, “At the outset, I deem it is my privilege to be a part of this important event being organised by ASSOCHAM, and Videocon for the awareness on the GST, and appreciate this initiative to address the queries of the Retailers and Traders of Consumer Electronics & Appliances. I am glad that GST, at last is seeing the light of the day. I was pretty sure in 2006 itself when then-Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced in his Union Budget speech that India would introduce GST by 1st April 2010. I was always sure that GST would be inevitable and will free India from the shackles of archaic indirect tax laws. It is envisaged to pave way for the ‘One Nation One point single Tax’ system. Overall, GST will strengthen the positioning of organised players in market and lend fillip to growth.”
Speaking about the initiative, Mr. Vishal Sharan, Sales Head, Videocon, said, “We are committed to welcome GST and bring everyone in the consumer electronics industry within its ambit. The objective behind organizing this summit was to equip our trade partners in Bengaluru with complete knowledge of GST and prepare them for its implementation. Videocon has always taken initiatives to ensure the welfare and growth of the industry.”
Being a responsible corporate house, Videocon is committed to serve the industry and all its stakeholders. The company recently launched a digital helpline for retailers, GST@vgmail.in, where consumer electronics retailers can email their queries with regards to GST. Videocon will endeavor to respond with the help of experts within 48 working hours.
GST Summit received a tremendous response from traders in Bengaluru. Around 600 Consumer Electronics retailers attended the event who utilized the platform to clarify all their GST queries.
by Bess | May 26, 2017
Revolutionizing Genomics for Personalized Cancer Care
Envisioned to define the future of cancer care in India, Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd. – The Specialist in Cancer Care today inaugurated the Triesta Genomics and Translational Research Center. It is a state-of-the-art Genomics Center offering comprehensive diagnosis by leveraging the latest and innovative technologies like Next-Generation Sequencing to all patients.
Triesta Genomics and Translational Research Center will support an emerging medical discipline called Genomic Medicine that involves usage of genomic data of patients for better diagnosis. These will help in making therapeutic decisions more effective and help improve health outcomes for patients.
With the largest patient base in private cancer care, HCG – Triesta Genomics and Translational Research Center stands on a strong foundation based on their access to the availability of well-annotated tissue biorepository, clinical data along with a strong clinical excellence of oncologists and scientists. The aim is to aid oncologists in their relentless pursuit to deliver personalized medicine using the genetic data of patients for better diagnosis at the very first time and achieve overall improved health outcomes.
Speaking at the launch, Dr. B.S. Ajaikumar – Chairman and CEO – HCG Enterprises Ltd. said, “Cancer cases in India are on the rise and the goal is to offer affordable as well as right cancer care to all. We have seen instances where 48 percent of patients do not respond to certain drugs due to their genetic makeup. However, by conducting genetic analysis and radiation genomics followed by ‘Precision medicine’ or ‘Personalized Medicine’, we were able to come up with an innovative approach to prevent or manage the disease and design the course of treatment with the best outcomes. With the launch of “Triesta Genomics and Translational Research”, at the Center of Excellence in Bangalore, HCG aims to implement an individualized predictive treatment model that will revolutionize cancer treatment, make it accessible for all patients to focus on improved outcomes, reduce cost and ultimately follow the HCG way of treating cancer: the right way, the first time.”
Also present at the conference, Dr. Mithua Ghosh, Director and Head – of Triesta Genomics and Translational Research Center said, “Understanding the genetic signature or profile of the cancer helps oncologists penetrate the root level cause of the disease at the molecular and genetic level. The application of next-generation advanced technologies has set its foot strongly in diagnostics and understanding the molecular landscape of cancer, which, in turn, has facilitated the development of diagnostic, prognostic and predictive biomarkers for clinical oncology. With HCG’s Genetic Counselling center and preventive oncology clinic, we have expanded the collaborative role in patient care to support the patients and their family members. Along with this, and the constant addition of new technologies like Liquid Biopsy, our center is also well-equipped to cater to the research and development needs of Biotech, Pharma, and the CRO sector.”
The center has also partnered with Strand Life Sciences for clinical informatics. The wealth of data emerging from cancer genome studies will be integrated with patients’ medical histories and clinical data using predictive and big data analytics. This “Genomics Data Bank” can lead to a better understanding of Indian population genetics and help develop more tailored approaches to predict treatment response in patients.
Dr. Intezar Mehdi – Consultant – Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and BMT and Dr. Vijay Agarwal – Consultant – Medical Oncology said, “Having a molecular along with a clinical genomics laboratory and the right expertise adds up to a lot of value. There is a seamless interaction between the clinicians, molecular pathologists, geneticists, which enables us not only to adopt the comprehensive multidisciplinary diagnostic approach to treat cancer, but it also gives us an opportunity to answer our research by accessing the latest and innovative technologies.”
With this launch, HCG has revolutionized cancer treatment, making it accessible for all patients to focus on improved outcomes.
About HCG Enterprises Ltd:
Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd. (HCG), headquartered in Bangalore, is the largest provider of cancer care in India. Through its network of 19 comprehensive cancer centers spread across India, HCG has brought advanced cancer care to the doorstep of millions of people. HCG’s comprehensive cancer centers provide expertise and the latest technologies in diagnosis and treatment of cancer under one roof. HCG has pioneered the introduction and adoption of several technologies in the country including stereotactic radiosurgery, robotic radiosurgery and now using genomics for personalized treatment of cancer.
The Triesta Genomics and Translational Research:
The Triesta Genomics and Translational Research, a unit of Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd. (HCG) is the one point, state-of-the-art solution for Cancer Diagnostics, Genomics (Next-Generation Sequencing based diagnostics), Biomarker and Translational Research, Laboratory services and Clinical Research Services. Based out of Bangalore, Triesta Sciences is an integration of Laboratory services, Research and Development, Biorepository, and Clinical Research with a focus on innovation, quality and accuracy for better diagnosis and prognosis of Cancer.
