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Shanthi Fernando

Shanthi Fernando

The Charitable work carried out by MJF Charitable Foundation is immeasurable. The Beneficiaries are forever grateful to him.

Mr. Fernando is one of the Greatest sons of Mother Lanka who built up his own Brand and the Consumers across the Globe are fully satisfied and enjoy the Dilmah Tea. I personally know a few of them

The Charitable work carried out by MJF Charitable Foundation is immeasurable. The Beneficiaries are forever grateful to him. A few events / incidents, Quotable Quotes:

I first met Mr. Fernando in 1985. He instructed me to design / submit certain reports on Machine Utilization. I designed a Form / Summary on Capacity Utilization / Idle Time / Reasons for stoppages were analyzed - Material Change over time / breakdowns. The
data was collected from the Production Floor and the Reports were tabled at the meeting held at 9.30 a.m. No Computers were available and the workings were done manually. I think he was happy with the Reports which were submitted.

Mr. Fernando was directly handling the operation single handed and had with him a few Junior Executives in the Tea Department. One day Mr. Fernando wanted one of the juniors to prepare a list of all the straight-line teas we had in stock to offer to a Buyer. He was asked to list the teas of the same garden mark together. The breaks are generally either in 20 or 40 chests lots and this person prepared the list with one garden mark as having 35 or 55 (cannot remember the exact figure) chests as a lot to be offered. When Mr. Fernando saw the list, he got very angry and told him “DON’T THINK YOU ARE BRIGHT. IF YOU ARE BRIGHT I WILL KNOW THAT BEFORE YOU”

A person who bought Mr. MJF’s Car paid an Advance and wanted to take the Vehicle the same day. Mr. MJF released the Car since it was a person known to him. It was around 8 p.m. and we agreed to drop him at Gower Street. Our Car was an old Hillman, the Petrol consumption was very high. When this incident took place, the Tank was almost empty but we did not want to take him to the Filling Station at McCullum Road, instead we went to Bambalpitiya dropped Mr. MJF. Managed to come back to Maradana to pump Petrol

The Charitable work carried out by MJF Charitable Foundation is immeasurable. The Beneficiaries are forever grateful to him.