Brown and Company has worked hard to deliver on the pledge of trust we made to the people over 143 years ago with our talented human resources. Today we are proud of what we own; a thriving business portfolio, a reputation for integrity. Over the years there have been many accomplishments to look back upon with pride. Yet, the achievement that is most significant to us will always be the remarkable legacy of 143 years of trust, that continues to drive our success now and into the future. It's will be a privilege to enhance your capabilities to work with our legacy.
"To build unique winning capabilities for the business by being a trusted business partner, consistently delivering trendsetting solutions to our employees and supporting the company in holding a competitive edge in the Market.?"
Working at Browns is a great pleasure and a privilege. I am surrounded by a diverse team who are intelligent and friendly. This is exactly the working environment in which people can develop and make a difference. The company offers countless growth and development opportunities and a chance to learn how to think out of the box and always find new ways to achieve the best out of the best.
Browns is a company that supports and believes in their people. I have developed over the years and I feel that I have had the opportunity to continuously grow with the challenges and opportunities that comes my way. What I find impressive about Browns is the people and the management. I am proud to be a part of Browns and happy to see that we keep on growing and delivering great results.
My Journey with Browns has been an eventful one where I have seen myself grow continuously. The manner in which my competencies have been identified and developed has been an encouraging process. I have been able to apply myself to the challenges that have come my way as I have been provided with the gear and trainings to apply myself in the most effective and efficient manner. I find Browns to be a family that recruits, develops and most importantly retains its members to create a sense of security and stability for the long run, creating a clear career path and work-life balance.
At Browns the top management considers that employees are the key players. Ten years of experience with the Browns family has groomed me to an extent to face new experiences and take up challenges. The company has enabled me to work freely and confidently to achieve my true potential.
I joined Browns as an Audit Trainee in 2004. From there onwards I was given the opportunity for decision making, taking risks with multiple challenges. I believe Browns is the Training Centre for people with passion and right attitude to perform. Team culture in the organization is a key component to develop the unity which has driven the organization up in the ladder day by day. Proving the fact of "Hard Work Pays Off" currently I perform my duties as the Assistant General Manager of Browns Agriculture I have gained the opportunity to broaden my career path to so many other areas than finance, where I get the chance to experience the latest technology, associate world's leading manufacturers and to be one of the leaders in the pioneers in the industry.
Browns Agriculture is the "Maha Gedara" to add value to the trust, believes and the needs of the farming community, while uplifting their life standards. I joined Browns in 2003 at the grass root level, where I was taught and motivated to take risks, make decisions and perform above others to grow in this dynamic corporate world. The journey was never an easy one but I was passionate about being the leader in the market leading product portfolio. The management always trusted my voice to drive the business towards achieving excellence, where currently I lead Browns Agriculture, "The Pioneer in Agri Machinery" in Sri Lanka. The person who has the hunger to perform, will definitely have the opportunity to grow at Browns."
I joined Browns in 1985 as a labourer for Browns Battery Division, The extensive experience I had in various sections in the Battery division shaped and sharpened my career. This is my 32nd year at Browns and I am immensely happy and contended about my journey here.
I am thankful to Browns management for the way they took care of the employees during the insurgencies in the 1980s. The bond created by the company with its employment saved the lives of the Battery staff while reaching the company targets even in the middle of the country's tense situation. Thus, I would like to welcome all the loyal individuals who would like to challenge themselves and explore their potential to join Browns. At Browns your growth is limitless!
Browns Group is a highly committed organization to employee engagement along with sustaining individual dignity and respects human rights. Our employment retention practices are purely based with human talents along with performance. At Browns all our employees are provided with a highly optimized environment providing higher means of safety and health standards. We ensure that all statutory provisions governing labour practices are compliant and decent work ethics are maintained throughout the organization and Group of companies.
Relying on our strong base over more than 140 years of continuous business excellence, Brown and Company PLC, has gathered a deeper inside towards the most critical roles of Human Resources which plays a key in an Organization's success.
At Browns we strongly believe that employees who are most passionate and committed towards the organization are a key asset with regards to sustaining a business. We make it to point to keep all of our employees motivated, happy engaged and dedicated towards the business.
Our Mission Statement States
"To build unique winning capabilities for the business by being a trusted business partner, consistently delivering trendsetting solutions to our employees and supporting the company in holding a competitive edge in the Market."
Our Employment involves us to recruit professionals to an available position which involves using fair, objective and internationally recognized and accepted evaluation methods. Our recruitment involves 3 entry points, at trainee level, mid-career and leadership levels. Although initial preference is given to our internal talent measured by our robust Organizational talent review program, we do believe that new talents form outside could bring in new way of working along with creative and new thinking. This creates ways to train professionals for the future.
At browns we have infused a philosophy of Alive, Respect and Inclusiveness. We take into account these values as our key element in guiding the employees with their daily actions and decisions. These may be highly advantageous during a company expansion to new ventures and to face demanding industry challenges. It must be kept in mind that browns has strived to build a strong, proactive transparent 'Performance Driven' culture, which is a first history of Browns.
We have developed an environment in which learning and Development plays an intrinsic part within the company culture. New talents as we believe will be the determining factor in our ability to double the weight of our business. Our main aim is to plan leadership development programs that will help all our people to be the best they can be, irrespective of level or role.
Browns partnered with Great Place to Work (GPTW), in a bid to facilitate a Group-wide change in the lives of its employees and overall growth of the organization. Internal motivational and engagement programs were conducted in order to communicate this mission effectively to all employees and encourage them to actively take part in the GPTW survey. This independently conducted survey revealed that employees are having strong pride and honor being employed at browns. This emerged the opportunity for the employees to confidently and confidentially voice their opinions. This led us in refocussing our HR strategy opening new avenues for us to support employees in addressing all of their concerns.
The main Aim of our engagement activities is to create a team which is motivated with one common objective, basically a team that can identify problems smartly, drive innovations and have the "Can do" attitude along with supporting the business with profitable growth. We conducted events such as Sinhala & Tamil New Year Celebration, Vesak Kalapaya, Christmas Fiesta, Birthday Card Distribution, Kelibima Sports Day, Annual Pirith Ceremony, Browns Kid’s day, among others.
Browns group of companies is an agile, flexible and diverse organization which includes a representative workforce, empowering our people with policies and infrastructure to help them work quickly and effectively, and creating flexible ways of working to suit their circumstances. One of the main objectives of the centralization of support functions was to create agility and flexibility for all subsidiaries and divisions.
All benefit are based on the definition and conditions of the collective agreement. It is a unique case in the Group, where even though the collective agreement exists, our performance-driven bonus mechanism is applicable to all, driving them to achieve their potential.
Browns has been awarded with six recognized global and national awards within the past two years. Awards and recognitions are an integral part of any organization or business in today’s increasingly competitive global economy.
The positive PR that accompanies an award provides more credibility than advertising could ever bring in and is ultimately more beneficial. It also assists in attracting and retaining talent, gain an overall sales advantage and expand public relations.
International Women's Day is a day for recommitting ourselves to making the world a fairer, more equitable place for women. Having that in mind and putting the same into practice not just on IWD but every single day, we did not forget to put a smile on the faces of our wonder women at Browns. We also joined #ChooseToChallenge by bringing some of the great female leaders of our organisation into the spotlight on our LinkedIn platform.
Browns Group successfully launched the Manage Eazy system was recently. The software was introduced to the users during a special launching ceremony, which featured a training session for internal users and selected dealers from across the island. Exclusively designed to strengthen the sales force of the Company, Manage Eazy provides real time updates on field operations, including details on primary dealers, secondary dealers as well as distributors, with 100% transparency. This new sales automation software which comes with a web based app and a mobile app enables the BUs to streamline their sales processes and easily monitor sales progress in real time.
While Ajith De Silva, Cluster COO, Automotive & Hardware envisaged the idea of Manage Eazy to level up the efficiency of the Company, Sanakan Thamotharampillai, Group CFO/CFO played a vital role in execution by guiding the teams involved in the project. Most importantly, this project would not have become a success without the tireless efforts of the ERP Division of the Group, who worked in tandem with the software development company-Sandbox. Eazy is just a stepping stone towards the digital revolution of the Company. We will be continuously riding the wave of digitalisation and exploring new horizons.
At Browns, we believe that the most valuable resource of the organisation is our people. The high focus and attentiveness on the identification of the potential of each individual, continuous effort on precise analysis and effective delivery of necessary training and developmental opportunities will certainly improve the overall performance of the Company through the improvement of individual and team performance. Having that in mind, our Human Resources Department recently conducted a Full-day Motivational and Skill Developmental Training Session for several clusters of the Company. The programme was facilitated by Mohan Palliyaguru, well-known corporate trainer and consultant.
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The Browns Construction Symposium was held recently, which was a knowledge sharing forum exclusively organised for the business units within the Group that represent the construction industry. The aim was to introduce the concept of ‘Cross Selling’ and educate the divisions on the products and services offered by other divisions. Construction and physical infrastructure are among the largest sectors of the Sri Lankan economy. A steady stream of investments from foreign property developers, local investors and the Government is flowing unabated into a multi-billion-dollar project pipeline, which definitely will benefit the service providers in the industry. Therefore, the senior management believes that it is important to practice cross selling to capitalise on such opportunities. The event was graced by the presence of Mr. Sanakan Thamotharampillai, Group Chief Operating Officer/Group Chief Financial Officer; Cluster Chief Operating Officers & officials from Browns Engineering. The following divisions participated in the programme and enlightened each other about the operations of their respective divisions; Heavy Machinery, Agriculture, Power Solutions, General Trading, Thermal Engineering, Battery, IED-ELGI/Chemical, Boiler and Browns Deals. The forum, held at Excel World was followed by a cocktail reception and the convivial evening was enjoyed by all.
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The annual pirith chanting ceremony followed by an almsgiving was held at the Browns Head Office to invoke blessings upon staff members as well as the citizens of the entire nation. Mr. Ishara Nanayakkara, Executive Chairman; Mr. Kapila Jayawardena, Group Managing Director; Mrs. Kalsha Amarasinghe, Director, senior management team of Browns Group and staff members from branches around the country and head office departments participated in the ceremony.
An induction programme is conducted for the newly recruited staff to introduce them to Brown & Company and its culture. The programme held at the Browns Corporate Training Room familiarized them with the policies, processes and people of Browns to ensure that the newbies have a smooth transition to their new workstation.
Browns HR engagement team in collaboration with Nawaloka Hospital, celebrated the national breast cancer awareness month by conducting a breast cancer awareness programme at the Browns Corporate Training Room. The programme which consisted of two segments; an informative seminar and the preliminary investigation by lady consultants, highlighted on the vitality of early detection of breast cancer. The programme also served as an advocacy campaign that emphasized on creating a stigma-free environment for breast cancer identification and treatment.
The sole objective of executing a mobile service to renew national identity card is to reduce the hassle and the burden the employees have to bare. This was 2 days programme which was held in Browns Head office where Group HR engagement team arranged required officers from Department for Registration of Persons to verify documents of employees along with “Justice of Peace” from the company. This service provided many benefits to employee by creating a hassle free environment with their busy daily schedules.
Browns Group HR Division organized a basic life support skills training programme for Browns employees at Browns Head Office. The training programme provided comprehensive insight on performing CPR and first aid related to choking of infants and adults. The participants could learn about basic life support skills through practical demonstrations. Dr. Upul Illangasinghe from Browns Hospitals conducted the programme with the support of the Chief Nursing Officer and nursing staff from Browns Hospital, Ragama.
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Browns Api Privilege card is a special loyalty card initiated to the employees at Browns by the GHR team to go an extra mile, Api Privilege card is a special loyalty card provided to the employees with gigantic benefits & privileges through different merchants island wide in getting discounts, cashbacks and etc. in day to day purchases. Our intention towards this initiative is to ease their burden financially in addition to the salaries and allowances they get and support them with their work life balance.
This is one of the grand festival day out of all of Browns. Employees can hardly wait for this day to happen, the sole reason is because they get the support from the company itself to enjoy and entertain won’t only with their colleagues but also with their family members. Furthermore this is competitive and very thrilling event because the staff is been segregated among four teams and most outstanding games among the other games are Browns Queens & King competition, best house decoration competition, Fancy dress parade and many more exciting games and events.
There will be a Christmas tree competition among all the departments/divisions to welcome the most creative Christmas tree from the company. This approach will break the ice and they feel relaxed to mingle with their own employees freely and to achieve a common goal to win the best Christmas tree but with fun filled with entertainment rather than day to day stressed life within the divisional members. In addition, kids party which entertain kids with exciting games, surprises, scrumptious goodies and gifts. Furthermore, in this fiesta there will be Christmas carols sung by our own Browns employees to spread the Christmas cheerful vibes among all the employees. This is one of the approaches HR team does to make them happy and to make them more comfortable with their own divisional members, to be like a one family.
