chairmanCONTENTS FROM THE CHAIRMAN EDITOR’S NOTEMMM 25-TON ELECTRIC TOW TUG LAUNCH THE HEROES AMONGST US REVA MAINI GREEN INITIATIVE RENUKA: FIGHTING FIT ‘MAINI MANOHAR’: IN HIS OWN WORDSMMM MAINI EXPRESS INDUSTRY RESPONSES: A SAMPLING MORE IMAGES NEW UNIT DEDICATEDMAINI BUGGY WINS BEST ANCILLARY SERVICES TWO BEST HONOUR ROLLMPP JIGANI UNIT START-UP STAR RISE MAGNETI-MAINI MEETARMES MAINI WAREHOUSING AWARDGRAMOTHAN FOUNDATION CHAIRMAN’S VISIT SCHOOL ADOPTION FESTIVAL SPORTS HEALTH AWARENESSYOGA FOR CHILDREN SENIOR CITIZEN CARE MICRO FINANCE

Gitanjali MainiEditorYOUR VARTA

Welcome to our fifteenth issue. You’ll find its content varies somewhat from its

predecessors in that it focuses a bit more on some of the people who make such a difference to the Group. People like you.

MAINI’S MANY STORIESIn the extended Group family, there are so many different stories, so many different paths that your lives have taken, so many joys and accomplishments, so many challenges you’ve met and obstacles you’ve overcome with determination and courage – things, often, only you and those close to you know about.

We tend to take these things as a matter of course, but many of your stories are so special they should be shared: they strengthen the bonds between us and help us remember what makes each of us special and what we all have in common.

Enjoy this issue and if there are stories you want to share, yours or anybody else’s, please let us know so, together, we can bring them to all our other readers. This, after all, is your Varta.

Gitanjali Maini

MMM 25-Ton Electric Tow Tug Launch16th to 20th Mar hyderabad. MMM launched its 25-Ton Electric Tow Tug for aviation

The Tug has been rigorously tested at several airports and military bases in the country. As with all the aviation support equipment MMM manufactures, it’s designed to customer-specific requirements with inherent flight safety features. MMM is proud to have taken the initiative in this product range, as a participant in the Make in India movement and will soon launch the 15-ton class of tow tugs as well. MINIMISING DEPENDENCYSanjay Reddy, Vice Chairman, GVK, who

launched the Tug, said its introduction was perfectly-timed, now that the Ministry of Civil Aviation has affirmed, in its draft civil aviation policy, its commitment to making all airports in India carbon-neutral by 2030. A proposed measure to this end is the induction of electrically-driven ground support equipment, in place of the IC diesel- and petrol-driven varieties in present use. Mr. Reddy went on to say that this MMM initiative would go a long way to reduce the Indian aviation stakeholder’s dependency on overseas vendors. Till now, operators in the airport environment have had to depend on foreign OEMs for most ground support equipment. MMM has long recognized the severe impact of long lead times for spares and after-sales service.

The Maini Group has many firsts to its credit in the

electric equipment space. With more than three decades of experience and expertise in cutting-edge technology, we’ve primarily focused on world-class solutions for the domestic market. Thus, in the Make in India spirit, we were proud to recently launch our 25-Ton Electric Tow Tug, a key piece of equipment for the Indian aviation sector.

This year, we’re also amplifying our various, ongoing, export initiatives in scope and reach, in further expression of that same spirit.

As always, we salute our CSR arm, Gramothan’s accomplishments: continually building – often in very challenging circumstances – to secure the future of the communities we’re privileged to serve.

– Sandeep Kumar Maini

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support applications at India Aviation 2016 here. The Tow Tug is designed to tow small aircraft, ground support equipment, baggage trolleys and air cargo containers, among others.

toW tUG INtro: Sanjay Reddy, Vice Chairman, GVK and Sandeep Maini

THE HEROES AMONGST USMAINI GROUP IS YOU: OUR PEOPlE. WE ARE WHERE WE ARE, GOING WHERE WE ARE GOING bECAUSE OF EACH OF YOU. YOU ARE OUR RESOURCES, OUR ASSETS, OUR STRENGTH. AT THE SAME TIME, EACH ONE OF YOU IS UNIqUE AND YOU DO WHAT YOU DO IN THE bEST WAY YOU CAN: THIS IS WHAT MAkES A PERSON A REAl-lIFE, EVERYDAY HERO. FROM THIS ISSUE ONWARDS WE’ll bE SHARING SOME OF YOUR STORIES AS WE DISCOVER THEM TO CElEbRATE WHAT MAkES YOU SO SPECIAl TO US AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU, WHAT MAkES YOU A HERO AMONGST US.

Renuka: Fighting FitRenuka has left Maini since after she shared her story with us a few months ago. Dealing with the illness has continued to necessitate changes, as might be expected, and she has left in accordance with her priorities. She will be missed by her colleagues and all those who had the pleasure of working with her

and we wish her the all very best.

Renuka is a 36-year-old HR

professional who’s been married 12 years and is blessed with a 11-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son. She did her schooling in the Air Force and Kendriya Vidyalaya; after which she did her psychology

studies in Mount Carmel College and went on to graduate in social work from Bangalore university.

She is also a true fighter and we say this because she is a cancer survivor. In April 2014, she was diagnosed with her illness. Obviously it was a very scary realisation and many people would been shattered at the thought of having cancer and, truth be told, she was devastated.

FAMIlY TIESShe had no idea how to tell her family this and so she went to her elder brother, who was a senior army officer. He consoled her and helped her break the news to them. Her parents were strong and mature about the situation and gave Renuka their full support during this time although the same couldn’t have been said about her husband, who couldn’t accept the fact that she had cancer as a result of which several differences arose between them.

On May 2014, she started her treatment with a note to herself and that was to make cancer the best thing that had happened to her, not the worst. She goes on to explain that her sole motive for survival was to ensure her children would be prepared as much as they could be, if she were to ever succumb to the cancer.

When asked about what she learnt from this illness she said, ‘I learnt who would stand by me during by good and bad times and who wouldn’t.’

TZU GRITShe also says that the only way she had the courage to face this was by adhering to the saying by Sun Tzu, ‘Every battle is won or lost before it is fought.’ So keeping this in mind, she started her treatment with the mindset that she’d already defeated the cancer.

Encouraging words from the chairman and CEO, flexi-work hours and the constant support of her friends bolstered her will to

Reva Maini: Green Initiative

It was a beautiful Bangalore morning when we decided to sit down and speak withMrs. Reva Maini in her lovely terrace

garden for which she has won a best garden award for Bangalore. She was never truly that interested in gardening as such, but always had a deep love for plants. Sometime in 1973, when Dr. Maini started the company, she wanted to help in any way that she could.

TO bEAUTIFY, TO lEARN So she decided to do so with the landscaping of the area around one of the sheds that they had in the Peenya branch. She claims that it was a very small area to work with though at first she thought it might be quite a daunting task. Making this her first project, she learnt a lot about plants and their natural habitats: she says that learning about plants or anything for that matter never ceases and that we always have something new to learn every day. She would visit nurseries in her free time and get all the information she needed about the plants she was going to work with. This was how she built on her interest for all things green and helped make the Maini units greener.

She says that in order to have a beautiful

garden, one must love the plants and also speak or even sing to them. Having soothing music around helps with their growth as plants do respond to it.

She also says that it’s a bit like bringing up a child: they require constant maintenance and care if you want them to grow, blossom and bear fruit.

When asked what her favourite plant is, she says she does not have one but if she had the chance, she would add birds of paradise to her garden. She also grows vegetables such as radishes, chillies, carrots and cauliflowers.

THE JOY THAT PlANTS bRINGShe says that one of her favourite projects was the one she did in the MPP Bommasandra unit as it was hard work and it needed to be completed before the unit’s inauguration. She added plants and creepers aesthetically in

order to give a nice vibe to the factory units.

She mentions that if you really love plants, and plant your own garden, it gives you a sense of joy and fulfilment and helps relax you. When asked if she had any message for the Maini Group, she had this to say: 'Keep Green, Go Green'.

'Maini' Manohar: In His Own Words

My uncle, Mr. P.P. Shanmugam, who was working in MICO’s PR department recommended I meet

Mr. Iqbal Khan, at Bangalore Commercial Corporation on the sixth floor at Devatha Plaza.

It was the 2nd of December 1981 when at 10.30 in the morning I reached Devatha Plaza: my first job interview. I took the stairs instead of the lift. I reached the fourth floor and looking at the signboards, I saw one saying Indian Commercial Corporation and, confused, entered it and asked the gentleman there if that was Bangalore Commercial Corporation.

‘This is the fourth floor,’ he said. I came out, stood there for a few minutes and walked up to the sixth floor, marched towards the office on the left, slowly opened the door and went in. A fair woman was typing on a Facit typewriter. My voice, a little bolder, calling out, ‘Madam,’ she turned towards me, and with a smile said, ‘What can I do for you?’

My voice low again, I asked for Mr. Khan. She replied that he came only in the afternoons. I said I’d meet him the next day. Next day I walked into the office, where I met Mr. Iqbal and told him about

my uncle. He said to join work the next day. I returned home and told my mother: she was thrilled, ‘At last, my son has started to work!’

Next morning, we got news that my grandfather had passed away. I had to put off starting work. A few days later, as my uncle called to say that I had neither informed Mr. Iqbal or reported to duty, I joined on the 9th of December, missing my grandfather’s 11th day death ceremony.

FIRST DAY IN DEVATHA PlAZAI entered the office at around 9 a.m.: Mr. Iqbal arrived around 12 and interviewed me. At lunchtime, the office secretary, Mrs. Bernadette Fernandes. forced me to go have

lunch, escorted by the office assistant, Mr. Devendran. After a light tiffin, it was back to office, waiting for Mr. Khan who, when he arrived, told me to go home for the day.Next morning, he showed me an old typewriter, a Remington portable, placed in one corner of the office with the delivery slip pads and invoice pads, a full box of typewriter carbons and showed me what to do, typing one set each of a delivery slip and an invoice. This work went on for more than two to three months.

FIRST SAlARY OF MY lIFEMr. Khan said that my salary would be Rs. 200 a month, calculated the number of days worked and gave me Rs.168; my hands were trembling as it was my first salary. The money was given to my mother, who said to place it in front of the deity, whom we prayed to daily. The guidelines given in those days were, no matter what you earned, a part of the percentage had to be given back to the ‘paymasters’.

I shred this same experience with our uncle, Mr. Shanmugam, who in turn guided me in fulfilling the dreams of the ‘paymasters’, by being faithful, trustworthy and proving your skill. The next day, the secretary was pleading for sweets to celebrate my salary. but I was just silent. Those were the days when I was learning about the value of money.

1982 ONWARDS From typing, I was introduced to office maintenance. That was followed by opening and closing the office, staff welfare activities like making tea and coffee, buying milk and the things needed in the office like stationery.Mr. Sareen used to chair the staff meetings. He used to say that most of our daily time was spent in office, so we should try to be happy and enjoy it without any stress or being over-preoccupied with work or such.

RElATIONSHIP WITH THE bOSSAs the years rolled by, Dr. Maini shifted his work to Devatha Plaza, spending less time at the Peenya factories. Maini Industrial

Consultants bagged a big project: to make a report titled A Key to Investment in India by Dr. Maini, to be presented in Belgium. I worked with him when he was preparing this. We used to draft the collections, typing, photocopying, re-arranging and so on. Mrs. Reva Maini would bring food from home at about 9.30p.m. I would work till 2.30 in the morning and start again from five in the

evening.

I was the youngest employee in 1982 at BCC in Devatha Plaza, with no experience in office routines, not knowing how to drive, zero fluency in English, no exposure to public life as it were. Messrs. Sareen and Khan, my guides and mentors, however, guided me in every way, not just in office work.

When our first export of lapping mandrels went to Bosch in

Germany, with Mr. S. Sridhar’s guidance I began handling foreign banking transactions like bill discounting and learning about the deutschemark, dealing with export promotion agencies and submitting relevant documents at the joint chief controller of imports and exports’ office. I also started going to MICO’s accounts department to collect payments for MPP.

As the company started growing, I was also involved in applying for new telephone connections, payment of telephone and telex bills, renewal of telegraphic address, and in upgrading the office equipment, Bangalore Club bills and so on.

Later, Mr. A. Jairaj came into my life. From being in-charge in the Purchase Department at one of the Peenya factories, he moved to Devatha Plaza to help with the office’s daily routine. Messrs. A. Jairaj, S. Sridhar and B. Shivanna were the office team in Maini Group those days, where everybody treated us with respect us in our daily lives.

I’m highly honoured to get an opportunity to narrate my experiences in my first job, first salary and the employee-employer relationship I shared, for Maini Varta.

win and also helped distract her and keep her mind off the illness.

THE RIGOURS OF RECOVERYDuring this time, she underwent 16 chemotherapies, a breast surgery and 30 days of radiotherapy which went on till February 2015. She claims modern medicine is truly a miracle and the doctors and nurses who were with her during this phase need to be

truly appreciated as her cancer has been vanquished and now life after it has become easier than what she thought it would be.

Renuka says that she is now fine, spends time with her kids and even drives to work every day.

She even goes on to say that cancer has been a gift for her as she has learnt so much more about life, herself and the people who are

truly important. ‘I have never been as happy as I’ve been after defeating the cancer and have faith in myself to be more and do more. From the beautiful surroundings I call home, being blessed with the opportunity to be cared for at work, and the love of my friends – it’s all just one big hug from the universe!’

We are so proud of you Renuka and we hope you keep rocking.:)

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Sanand Baroda

Dahej Ankleshvar

Vapi/ Silvasa

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Gandhidham Rajkot

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Verawal Bhopal

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24th aUG 2015 hero MotoCorp GUrGaoN

Maini and Yale launched the Maini Express – a next-generation customer engagement initiative.

Maini Express is a mobile experience centre showcasing comprehensive material handling and warehousing solutions. It’s a first-in-the-industry, one-stop shop campaign, created primarily to help customers choose the right material handling equipment and storage solutions for increased efficiency and productivity at their warehouses and manufacturing facilities. Maini Express was unveiled on 24th August 2015 at the Hero MotoCorp Gurgaon plantby Vikram Kasbekar (Head Ops and Supply Chain, Hero MotoCorp), our Chairman SandeepMaini and our CEO S.A. Mohan (see below).

Rajesh Wazarkar, MD and Kiran Shetty TM, Indian Subcontinent, NACCO Materials Handling Group India, Hero MotoCorp senior management and MMM’s sales and marketing team were also there. OPTIMUM OUTREACHAs Sandeep Maini commented, ‘We intend to go to our customers, rather than have the customers come to us. With the Maini Express, we can convey what we offer in terms of solutions, technology and what the future holds in material handling and warehousing sector.’

‘This will further strengthen the position of Yale and Maini in the growing Indian material handling industry and touch base with its key influencers and B2B accounts. We hope for increased customer engagement through the mobile experience centre and to position Maini Materials Movement as a complete solution provider in the material handling space,’ said S.A. Mohan. After the launch, the Mobile Experience Centre completed an all-India campaign covering more than 50 cities and over 200 industrial hubs to provide an exclusive ‘touch-and feel’ experience of comprehensive Maini material handling and warehousing solutions. Representatives from 965 companies visited and 7587 footfalls were counted. On display for demonstration were the Stacker, Electric Pallet Truck, Tow Truck, Hydraulic Hand Pallet Truck and the Yale Electric Forklift Truck. Also on display were the Yale ERP 2.5 CF, SP 20i, TT 50i and PV. Special spot booking deals were available. Maini Express is, thus, an excellent platform not only for decision-makers but, needless to say, also for users, from which to explore the ideal material handling and warehousing solutions.

Industry Responses: A Sampling

Overall concept excellent. Very innovative way of marketing – Balwant, Sr Mgr. Warehousing

Concept excellent. It gives you the one-to-one product experience. Also we got to see the range. Maini has a

good brand image. – Dinesh AGM WH (Corporate)

I really liked the concept of a roadshow. An interesting initiative by Maini – Munish, Plant Head

I got to see a wide range of Maini products

– Rajesh Dy. Mgr. Project

I like the overall concept of the Maini Express roadshow. Got to know about the entire range of products.

– Deven Gohel Purchase Head

Hands-on experience and solutions on the spot. – Vapendru Patel, Ahmedabad

ROAD STOPS: 50 CITIES AND OVER 200 INDUSTRIAl HUbS

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Faridabad

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Dehradun

Baddi

Mohali

Ludhiana

Sonipat Daruheda/

Tapukara/ Bawal

Neemrana

Bhiwadi

Jaipur Jodhpur

Sanand Baroda

Dahej Ankleshvar

Vapi/ Silvasa

Ahmedabad

Surat

Gandhidham Rajkot

Morbi

Verawal Bhopal

Indore/

Pitampura

Aurangabad

Bhiwandi

Thane, Belapur road

Dharwad/ Hubli Goa

Hyderabad

Coimbatore

Mysore

Bangalore

Tirupur Hosur

Pune Kolhapur

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Maini Express Launch: More Images

Maini Buggy Wins Best Ancillary Services21st JUl 2015 CroWNe plaza KoChI. At the India Hospitality Awards (West and South) 2015, Rahul Sagar, AGM-Mktng, received the Best Ancillary Services Award for MMM. This awards event brings together leaders from the hospitality and tourism industries to recognise the most outstanding contributions in taking hospitality to the next level.

The Maini Buggy has been a part of the hospitality industry for more than a decade now and the award attests to not only our innovative solutions for the industry, but also to how well the Buggy is known and how sought after.

MMM’S Rahul Sagar receives the Best Ancillary Services Award from Mrs. India 2015 Tanushree Pandey and Mr. Rao, the Tourism Secretary, Govt. of Kerala.

New Unit Dedicated15 oCt 2015 boMMasaNdra. Our exclusive manufacturing plant for the Yale-Maini range of forklifts and reach trucks went onstream. At the new unit’s inauguration we were delighted to welcome a team from Nacco Materials Handling Group (NHMG) Global and India who joined us for the cutting of the ribbon. The team comprised of Colin Wilson, Global CEO and Pres.,Victoria Rickey Sr. VP, Asia Pacific and Brazil, Rajiv Prasad Sr. VP, Prod. Dev, Manuf. and Proc.and Rajesh Wazarkar MD, NMHG India.

at the rIbboN-CUttING: NHMG’s Colin Wilson and Victoria Rickey, Rajiv Prasad and Rajesh Wazarkar with Sandeep Maini.

Warehousing Award29th, 30th sep taJ laNd’s eNd, MUMbaI.

At the ninth annual edition of the Express Logistics and Supply Chain Conclave (ELSC) awards, which

honours excellence in warehousing, Armes Maini was conferred with the Warehouse Material Handling and Storage Solutions of the Year award in the night’s Warehousing Excellence category.

The event had over 200 speakers and more

than 700 attendees. The award acknowledges not only our innovative warehousing storage solutions, but also the high degree of customer appreciation of our service and product suites. As the citation said, the award is part of the first initiative of its kind to acknowledge excellence in the warehousing industry by setting a benchmark and helping disseminate domain knowledge and as such, it honours the efforts that contribute towards the success of a good warehouse.

Honour Roll22 JaN 2016. The year has begun with a bang and another award: this time the Economic Times Logistics Award in material handling equipment manufacturing. We’re humbly proud and energized: there’s no better incentive to keeping doing more than media acknowledgment like this. Thinks again to all of you who made this possible.

Two BestTwo reasons to be proud: we received Best Cold Chain Material Handling Service Provider of the Year 2015 and the National Award for Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (Scale) 2015.

Jigani Unit Start-Up deC 2015 We have inaugurated a new plant to manufacture automated manual transmission machined parts.

MaGNetI-MaINI Meet Magneti Marelli is an international design and manufacturing entity for automotive systems and components. A team of senior delegates from Italy and from its Indian unit visited to further the leverage of new opportunities. From left: Ritesh Haryan, Avinash Kumar, Sandeep Maini, Neeraj Sachdev Valeriano Casci, Albert Soler, Gautam Maini, Manish Khosla, Gaurav Saha, Amit Tyagi and Venkatramanappa

Star Rise25th deC 2015 A gratifying Christmas present – EEPC India’s Star Performer – Large Enterprise (Southern Region) award. It was an acknowledgment of our ‘outstanding contribution to engineering exports in 2013-2014’ in the category of metal fasteners, springs and miscellaneous articles from metal wire.

Congratulations to our MPP team whose initiative and efforts always prevail.

Health AwarenessaUG 15 MaChUrU VIllaGe. A significant degree of care has been taken to raise awareness about the prevention and eradication of disease.

The Swarnabhindu Prashayana (Ayurvedic Immunization Progress) camp is conducted every month on Swarna Pushya Nakshatra day, regarded as the most auspicious to prepare and take herbal medicines: it also signifies the nourishment a mother gives her child.

The camp is held at the anganwadi for children from the ages of two to sixteen and provides nutritious food free of cost as well as transport.

It also provides free medicine. The total number of children treated here include 18 boys and 27 girls. The objective is to prevent skin diseases and to build their immunity.

School AdoptionGramothan Foundation has adopted two schools, one in Vadakanmala and another in Bavali which is a tribal school. In both these, we now provide basic kits and facilities.

Festival SportsFestival sports were also organised for about 18 villages with cricket, volleyball and kabaddi for the boys and rangoli, kunte bille and kho kho for the girls. The winners were given medals and T-shirts.

Chairman’s VisitNoV 2015 d.b. KUppe paNChayat. Our Chairman and Vikrant Maini visited for a firsthand look and to interact with those involved Among other things they went to the schools Gramothan has adopted. The Chairman spoke to them about the importance of education and assured them of Gramothan’s continued support. They met with some senior citizens and enquired after their wellbeing, and also visited a tribal community to learn a little more about their way of life, their children's education and how GF could engage in their progress.

Children are issued textbooks and exercise books, uniforms, shoes and socks, schoolbags and sports equipment. We also provide them meals planned along Narayana Hrudayalaya, Mysore, guidelines that will improve their health and immunity.

The schools themselves have been supplied furniture – desks, chairs and almirahs. We’ve also painted both school buildings, constructed toilets and planted gardens.

On the whole it was a fruitful visit for the extent of information gathered and on-the-spot reviewing, as also in enabling the dialogue between all stakeholders that’s essential to the effective implementation of GF programming.

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MaChUrU, boGapUra, hosUrU, hUlMUtlU. A wellness and an awareness programme for children was held in four schools. Forty boys and girls took part in the awareness programme and twenty-five girls in the wellness programme. These are hygiene-and-health-related programmes for children between 1st and 5th grades.

seNIor CItIzeN Care Gramothan provided free food for the elderly at the 05 house which consists of seven members all above the age of 60. Gramothan also provided them with beds, sheets and pillows for Onam. Staff visits to dispense panchakarma treatments help maintain the residents’ health.

Micro Financeapr 2015. We set up a Sahaya Kendra to assist those eligible to access government benefits such as Aadhar, ration and Yeshasvini cards, as well as medical, below-the-poverty- line benefits and old-age pensions.The Sahaya Kendra then started a door-to-door awareness

Yoga for ChildrenClasses were held for children in grades from fifth to tenth, in schools in Hosuru, Kadagadde, Vadakanamala and Bhavali among others, by Smt. Raja Rajeshwari, a yoga teacher, along with Kumari Savitri.

campaign to help people understand the how-to’s: many of them would need help with some of the formalities and this service is going a long way to ensure that they know and receive what they are entitled to.

JUl 2015. The Gramothan Vividoddesha

Souhardha Sahakari NiyamithaVadakanamala resumed loan disbursements to villagers this month and has released to 13 members a total of Rs. 2,20,000. It also set up an accident insurance scheme for first-time loan applicants.

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