Happy Holi 2016 Celebration at SBPL Office, Bhubaneswar

Issue -XVII / March 2017

Holi, the festival of colors is celebrated every year in the Hindu month of Phalgun according to the lunar calendar. This festival is one of the biggest Indian festivals. It usually falls in the month of March and this year, it was on 13th March 2017. The festival was also celebrated in our office on the eve on a large scale. A glimpse of the celebration .....

1MARCH 2017

WOMAN'S DAY

A Good Life Contains

Supplementary Page

Birthday and Anniversary

Editorial

Holi Hai !

From the Director's DeskAt the start of a new financial year let me wish you all a successful new business year and share with you some stories suited for Business and Work.

Succeeding in business is no easy feat. It's too easy to let business knock you down. Instead of throwing in the towel when there is a business problem, pick yourself back up, buckle down, and get to work. These motivational stories prove that with a little hard work, any amount of business success is possible.

1. Colonel Sanders | Kentucky Fried Chicken

Once, there was an older man, who was broke, living in a tiny house and owned a beat up car. He was living off of $99 social security checks. At 65 years of age, he decide things had to change. So he thought about what he had to offer. His friends raved about his chicken recipe. He decided that this was his best shot at making a change.

He left Kentucky and travelled to different states to try to sell his recipe. He told restaurant owners that he had a mouth watering chicken recipe. He offered the recipe to them for free, just asking for a small percentage on the items sold. Sounds like a good deal, right?

Unfortunately, not to most of the restaurants. He heard NO over 1000 times. Even after all of those rejections, he didn't give up. He believed his chicken recipe was something special. He got rejected 1009 times before he heard his first yes.

With that one success Colonel Hartland Sanders changed the way Americans eat chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken, popularly known as KFC, was born.

Remember, never give up and always believe in yourself in spite of rejection.

2. The Obstacle in our Path

There once was a very wealthy and curious king. This king had a huge boulder placed in the middle of a road. Then he hid nearby to see if anyone would try to remove the gigantic rock from the road.

The first people to pass by were some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers. Rather than moving it, they simply walked around it. A few loudly blamed the King for not maintaining the roads. Not one of them tried to move the boulder.

Finally, a peasant came along. His arms were full of vegetables. When he got near the boulder, rather than simply walking around it as the others had, the peasant put down his load and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. It took a lot of effort but he finally succeeded.

The peasant gathered up his load and was ready to go on his way when he say a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The peasant opened the purse. The purse was stuffed full of gold coins and a note from the king. The king's P4

My Dear Family Members,

Its curtains to Year 2016-17 and herewith we usher in a new financial year 2017-18 with its set of challenges and learning. I am sure the last year was also a major leaning exercise for you all as it was for me as well. The idea is to learn and incorporate the learning so that there is a better tomorrow and the future. On the business from the year was not very significant. The force that was required was seen in bits and pieces though not consistently throughout the year.

Some divisions did well some not so good. Team Tiscon showed some grit and managed to cross the 4000 mt figure in March for the first time in the year. Significant achievement. Others like Tractors did an all time high in March. As a team there was a good amount of activity and rallying around in the month. Competition is though and one has be one step ahead on competition in order to put them back. How is all up to you. I always dreamt of a team of individuals who would be support systems to me and take the burden away from me so that I can take care of other avenues to increase and enhance the business. I have dreamt of a team who would independently get things done in tandem with me and my guidelines. A team brimming with confidence and ability. I will one day see a team with me who will take the organisation to greater heights.

Let us all work towards a better year this year. There will be different types of challenges and we need to be equipped within ourselves to be able to overcome them and become triumphant in the long run. Each one of you have the agility and with more business orientation approach and strong acumen our company can run and reach the top. Communicate and Agility are important. To ensure the job on the desk is done with without delay should be the responsibility on our able shoulders.

Information gathering and sharing is of utmost importance. Keep up with the same tempo and move ahead in the first month of the financial year with confidence and agility.

All the very best for the month and I am sure each one of you will come up as winners with great achievements this month.

God speed and God Bless !

Sunil KishorepuriaManaging Director

Editorial

2MARCH 2017

note said the purse's gold was a reward for moving the boulder from the road.

The king showed the peasant what many of us never understand: every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.

3. Value

A popular speaker started off a seminar by holding up a $20 bill. A crowd of 200 had gathered to hear him speak. He asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?”

200 hands went up.

He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.” He crumpled the bill up.

He then asked, “Who still wants it?”

All 200 hands were still raised.

“Well,” he replied, “What if I do this?” Then he dropped the bill on the ground and stomped on it with his shoes.

He picked it up, and showed it to the crowd. The bill was all crumpled and dirty.

“Now who still wants it?”

All the hands still went up.

“My friends, I have just showed you a very important lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, life crumples us and grinds us into the dirt. We make bad decisions or deal with poor circumstances. We feel worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. You are special – Don't ever forget it!

4. A Very Special Bank Account

Imagine you had a bank account that deposited $86,400 each morning. The account carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every dollar each day!

We all have such a bank. Its name is Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever time you have failed to use wisely. It carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you can't borrow against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day, the account starts fresh. Each night, it destroys an unused time. If you fail to use the day's deposits, it's your loss and you can't appeal to get it back.

There is never any borrowing time. You can't take a loan out on your time or against someone else's. The time you have is the time you have

and that is that. Time management is yours to decide how you spend the time, just as with money you decide how you spend the money. It is never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and where they fall in our priorities.

Thanks !

Sunil KishorepuriaManaging Director

The values that make up the foundation of a life well lived—and, no surprise, money isn’t one of them

The ultimate expression of life is not a paycheck. The ultimate expression of life is not a Mercedes. The ultimate expression of life is not a million dollars or a bank account or a home. The ultimate expression of life is living a good life.

Here's what we must ask constantly : What, for me, would be a good life?

And you have to keep going over and over the list—a list including areas such as spirituality, economics, health, relationships and recreation.So, what would constitute a good life? Here is a short list:

1. Productivity

You won't be happy if you don't produce. The game of life is not rest. Yes, we must rest, but only long enough to gather strength to get back to productivity.

What's the reason for the seasons and the seeds, the soil and the sunshine, the rain and the miracle of life? It's to see what you can do with it—to try your hand to see what you can do.

2. Good Friends

Friendship is probably the greatest support system in the world, so don't deny yourself the time to develop it. Nothing can match it. It's extraordinary in its benefit.

Friends are those wonderful people who know all about you and still like you. I lost one of my dearest friends when he was 53—heart attack. As one of my very special friends, I used to say that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly, and, if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a real friend—somebody who would come and get you.

And we've all got casual friends, friends who, if you called them, they would say, "Hey, if you get back, call me and we'll have a party.”

You’ve got to have both real friends and casual friends.

3. Your Culture

Language, music, ceremonies, traditions, dress. All of that is so vitally important that you must keep it alive. The uniqueness of all of us, when blended together, brings vitality, energy, power, influence, and rightness to the world.

4. Spirituality

It helps to form the foundation of the family that builds the nation. And make sure you study, practice and teach—don't be careless about the spiritual part of your nature because it's what makes us who we are, different from dogs, cats, birds and mice.

5. Don't Miss Anything

My parents taught me not to miss anything, not the game, the performance, the movie, the dance. Just before my father died at 93, if you were to call him at 10:30 or 11 at night, he wouldn't be home. He was at the rodeo, he was watching the kids play softball, he was listening to the concert, he was at church—he was somewhere every night.

Go to everything you possibly can. Buy a ticket to everything you possibly can. Go see everything and experience all you possibly can.

Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.

6. Your Family and the Inner Circle

Invest in them, and they'll invest in you. Inspire them, and they'll inspire you. Take care of the details with your inner circle.

When my father was still alive, I used to call him when I traveled. He'd have breakfast most every morning with the farmers at a little place called The Decoy Inn out in the country where we lived in Southwest Idaho.

When I was in Israel, I'd have to get up in the middle of the night, but I'd call Papa. I'd say, "Papa, I'm in Israel." He'd say, "Israel! Son, how are things in Israel?" He'd talk real loud so everybody could hear. I'd say, "Papa, last night they gave me a reception on the rooftop underneath the stars overlooking the Mediterranean." He'd say, "Son, a reception on the rooftop underneath the stars overlooking the Mediterranean?" Now everybody knew the story. And giving my father that special day only took five or 10 minutes.6

If a father walks out of the house and he can still feel his daughter's kiss on his face all day, he's a powerful man. If a husband walks out of the house and he can still feel the imprint of his wife's arms around his body, he's invincible all day. It's the special stuff with your inner circle that makes you strong and powerful and influential. So don't miss that opportunity.

The prophet said, "There are many virtues and values, but here's the greatest: one person caring for another." There is no greater value than love.

So make sure in your busy day to remember the true purpose and the reasons you do what you do. May you truly live the kind of life that will bring the fruit and rewards that you desire.

3MARCH 2017

A Good Life Contains These 6 Essentials :

WOMAN'S DAYWomen’s Day is celebrated globally on 8 March every year in honour of their remarkable contribution to our society. The day also commemorates the inspiring role of women around the world to secure women’s rights and build more equitable societies. Women’s Day also remembers the voices of many women that go unheard and who continue to be dominated from securing their rights and realizing their full potential.

Woman – the power to create, nurture and transform! The word ‘woman’ conjures up the images of selfless love, care and affection. At the same time, women ignite the spirit of power and hope. Unfortunately, across the world, women had to fight for their independence and protection of rights. Since decades, women had fighting to express their right to speech, to vote, to equality, to education, to income and most

importantly, to freedom.

International Women’s Day honours the women who have paved the path towards our progress and struggled to take ‘womanhood’ to a level where it is now. The objective of Women’s Day is to express love and gratitude towards women’s’ contribution to our lives and society. It honours the power and struggles of women who have broken all barriers and reached the pinnacle of success in every sphere of life.

Woman’ day was also celebrated in our office with Radha Madam taking a lead and personifying leadership in women.

On this occasion a child was adopted by Sagar Business Private Limited. A cheque amounting to Rs. 7500/- was presented to Plan International in this regard.

Nest In as a product was show cased through a stall at Exhibition Ground. A few glimpses.....

Birthdays & Anniversaries in month of December

Sagar Business Private Limited wishes its customers a happy birthday & anniversary.....

CUSTOMERS

And to all our Employees a very happy birthday & anniversary

EMPLOYEE

RWD Project, Bhubaneswar

4MARCH 2017

th Mr. Suresh Ranjan Tarasia & Ajit Kumar Dash Birthday celebrations on 15March 2017,

th Pritam Kumar Dash Birthday celebrations on 28 March 2017

Anniversary of Mrs.Radha Kishorepura & Mr. Sunil Kishorepuria on 7th March 2017

st01 April - Keerti Chandra Panda (Birthday)st 01 April - Hrusikesha Dash (Birthday)th09 April - Sai India (Birthday)th10 April - Shree Oum (Birthday)th10 April - Hotel Neelamadhab /Satkar (Birthday)rd13 April - Bishnu Charan Behera (Birthday)st21 April - Uma Parbati Construction Pvt Ltd (Birthday)nd22 April - Chhabindra Kumar Pradhan (Birthday)rd23 April - B N Parida & Co (Birthday)rd23 April - J.K.Engineering & Traders (Birthday)th25 April - Konark Innovation (Birthday)th28 April - Steelage Traders (Birthday)th30 April - Maharana Engineering & Furniture (Birthday)th04 April - Ibiel Enterprises (Anniversary)rd13 April - M.C.Marketing Pvt Ltd (Anniversary)th19 April - M/s Ashirbad Developers (Anniversary)th20 April - Jagadamba Realcon Pvt. Ltd (Anniversary)th25 April - RUPANTAR (Anniversary)

th05 April - Chitta Ranjan Samal (Birthday)th05 April - Umesh Chandra Routray (Birthday)th06 April - Sankarsan Kar (Birthday)th08 April - Debasish Das (Birthday)st11 April - Prasanna Kumar Behera (Birthday)nd12 April - Arup Sampad Jenath14 April - Rakesh Kumar Chhatoi (Birthday)th16 April - Raju Bharadwaj (Birthday)

Mr Shubhadeep Brahma was blessed withbaby twin girls

Mr Rajiv Meher was blessed with a baby girl

Issue -XVI / February 2017 / Supplementary page

Philips Retail Activity

5MARCH 2017

Tata Smaranika - a Farmers meet in Kalinga Nagar - Jajpur.

Village India is rich in traditional resources. However, over a period of time it has dwindled due to neglect, invasion of industrial products and lack of skill development and marketing facilities. To adress this TATA STEEL has organised a rural farmers meet - "TATA SMARANIKA" to impart knowledge on various subject ranging ffrom modern horticulture, handicrfts promotion and marketing, other livelyhood in Duburi, Jajpur on 10th March, 2017. Sagar Business Private Limited has participated in the "TATA SMARANIKA"- with the Wiron team. The Wiron division has put up a stall in the exhibition area and educated the visitor farmers on TATA WIRON's competitive characteristics over other available local products. It was a learning event for the team as well as they interacted directly with the farmers, and learnt there needs and expectation over the wiron product range. Team has shared brochures, showed demonstration of different products and shared the product knowledge to the visitors. Visitors had also shown a good response and a developing market for tata wiron is expected in the vicinity of JAJPUR area.

Date: 10th march 2017

Retailers of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar area were invited for a product update and information sharing. Mr. Kaushik Patnaik attended the show along with our Philips team from Sagar Business.

There was a man taking a morning walk at or the beach. He saw that along with the morning tide came hundreds of starfish and when the tide receded, they were left behind and with the morning sun rays, they would die. The tide was fresh and the starfish were alive. The man took a few steps, picked one and threw it into the water. He did that repeatedly. Right behind him there was another person who couldn't understand what this man was doing. He caught up with him and asked, “What are you doing? There are hundreds of starfish. How many can you help? What difference does it make?” This man did not reply, took two more steps, picked up another one, threw it into the water, and said, “It makes a difference to this one”.

IT IS THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.......

6MARCH 2017

Tata Wiron Canopy Campaign &Auto Branding at Angul & Denkanal

15th March and 16th March, 2017. Sbpl Wiron team has a market sensitizing program for Angul and Dhenkanal area. Team has put multiple canopies in the areas of Angul, Talcher and Dhenkanal. They have distributed TATA Wiron Product Brochures and educated mass on the benefits of using tata product. Team has also done auto branding in Angul bus stand area to promote TATA Wiron product, where vinyl posters are placed on auto back and sides.

A lady in a faded grey dress and her husband, dressed in a home-spun suit walked in, timidly, without an appointment into the outer office of Harvard University President. The secretary was shell shocked and told them in a moment that they could not meet the president. She further said very tersely that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn’t even deserve to be in Harvard.

“We want to see the President” the man said softly.

He’ll be busy all day” the secretary snapped.

We’ll wait” the lady replied.

For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn’t and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the President…

“Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they’ll leave” she said to him. The President, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.

The lady told him “We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed… My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.”

The President wasn’t touched…He was shocked. “Madam “he said, gruffly, “we can’t put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery.”

Drams of statues, graves, memorials, names, donations etc., are possible in a country like India but at Harvard such stupid things are unthinkable.

“Oh, no,” the lady explained quickly “We don’t want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.”

The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, and then exclaimed, “A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.”

For a moment the lady was silent. The President was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, “Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband nodded. The President’s face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, travelling to Palo Alto, California where they established the University that bears the name: Stanford University, a memorial to a son that

Harvard no longer cared about.

They also got a church constructed named Stanford Memorial Church in the centre of the university campus to pay their thanks to God.

We judge people by their outer appearance, Most of the time which can be misleading. And in this impression, we tend to treat people badly by thinking they can do nothing for us. Thus we tend to lose our potential good friends, employees or customers.

Today Stanford is a prestigious university and competes heavily with Harvard. Harvard is known for its Business School but Stanford became the first university to raise 1 billion dollars in a year.

Remember, in our Life, we seldom get people with whom we want to share and grow our thought process. But because of our inner ego we miss them forever. It is you who have to decide with whom you are getting associated in day to day life.

How our inner Ego sometimes misjudges a Person. Real story and truly inspiring!