Thursday, December 30, 2010

Winner Medical bags Shenzhen Baoan District Quality Award

Winner Medical Group Inc a leading manufacturer of medical dressings, medical disposables and non woven fabric made from 100% natural PurCotton products in China, announced that it was honored to receive the Shenzhen Baoan District Quality Award from the Market Supervision Administration of Shenzhen Municipality. Winner Medical was awarded the top honor from a field of over 30 applicants, having undergone a rigorous evaluation by an independent board of examiners.

The Award recognizes Winner Medical's management team and quality, and affirms the Company is operating at a global management level and is able to compete with world-class organizations. The Award further spurs Winner Medical to continuously improve its quality, management and overall performance to enhance its competitiveness.

The Shenzhen Baoan District Quality Award is the District's highest honor for quality and organizational performance, excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership. The evaluation of the Award is based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria (or 'Baldrige Performance Excellence Program') in seven key categories: leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, workforce focus, process management and results.

The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence not only provides a systems perspective for understanding performance management, but most importantly, it offers excellent and integral tools to self-assess and compare with applicants' benchmarks to achieve sustainable development.

Monday, December 27, 2010

CIRCOT & Fibre2fashion to host Business Development Programme on Cotton Technology

When Government research institution joins hand with private sector to start playing the role of incubator of entrepreneurial projects, then businesses are definitely bound to go places, benefiting all.

Zonal Technology Management and Business Planning & Development unit at Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology (CIRCOT), Mumbai in association with Fiber2fashion is jointly organizing one day Business Development Programme for “ Cotton Technologies” on January 7, 2011 at Ahmedabad.

Announcing this, Dr P R Roy, Director, Fibre2fashion.com said, “In India, CIRCOT today is a premier cotton research organization. Their pioneering research right up to the entire textile value chain is indeed commendable and needs to be taken to the market place.”

He adds, “Fibre2Fashion offers its business networking platform to connect CIRCOT with the industry whereby its research can be commercially exploited to benefit the cotton sector at large. Last month, Fibre2Fashion hosted the International Trade Centre (ITC), Switzerland led 36 member study delegation from East African countries visiting Ahmedabad and its surrounding cotton belt. Here, too we leveraged our forte at business networking and connectivity to promote the burgeoning Indian cotton sector and its technologies to the African cotton sector representatives whose industry has huge potential to grow by learning from our Indian experience.”

This Business Development Programme intends to bring technology and machinery suppliers, seed producers, pesticides manufacturers, cotton farmers and growers, ginners, spinners, weavers, allied value chain members and ICAR Scientists to discuss about the opportunities on setting up of knowledge based enterprises using agricultural technologies.

The BPD Units are also expected to promote entrepreneurial attitude and raise awareness about the technology driven business opportunities that the entrepreneurship can bring into the local business environment.