The Agent of the Year Award 2002/2003 went to the Mayer & Cie. representation in India, Batliboi Ltd. The sole reason for this particular choice was the company's exemplary customer orientation.
It is already some years ago that Batliboi Ltd. decided to concentrate its knitting technology competence by creating a dedicated customer services division. Customers are offered support from the company's own advice centre in the selection of raw materials, in machine operation and patterning possibilities through to quality inspections of knitted finished products. With this system in place, Batliboi is able to offer its knitting factory customers “Total Knitwear Solutions“.
In the course of developing these activities, the company was also able to substantially optimize its investment advisory service and service availability. In two training centres originally promoted jointly by Mayer & Cie. and Batliboi and now operating fully independently, which were established with the cooperation of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) as a PPP(Public Private Partnership) on behalf of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation in Berlin, a total of 48 knitting specialists receive theoretical and practical training every year and helped into the labour market.
Batliboi's own service organization provides backup for customers not only in India but also in neighbouring Bangladesh and Sri Lanka with the aid of service specialists trained by Mayer & Cie.
Batliboi stands for 1.000 Mayer & Cie. circular knitting machines delivered to India since 1985. In the year 2002, Mayer & Cie. headed the supplier statistics for the sale of circular knitting machines to India.
Batliboi has provided impressive proof of the crucial importance to successful machine sales of strategic marketing taking into consideration the product, service, advice and training. Not only in India, but in every other market around the world.
Other agents were also honoured for their many years of successful work for Mayer & Cie.:
Mayer do Brasil Máquinas Têxteis Ltd., Brazil (45 years)
Wm. C. Jackson & Co. Pty. Ltd, Australia (35 years)
C.A. Kennedy Inc., Canada (25 years)
Somabon S.A., France (25 years)