People’s Leasing & Finance PLC (PLC), is the benchmark company in Sri Lankan leasing and non-bank finance sector affiliated to the People’s Bank.
Recently PLC introduced ‘Gratitude’ Loyalty Card to its loyal customers at a function held at the PLC head office premises. The occasion was graced by Mr. Pradeep Amirthanayagam, Deputy Chairman, Directors of PLC and Mr. Sabry Ibrahim, CEO/GM, PLC.
The launching event was also graced by the senior management of PLC with a host of loyal customers of PLC and Senior Managers of some leading companies.
PLC has a vibrant history of two decades. Over the decades, the company has dealt with large scale companies, SMEs, individual businessmen, factories, professionals, agriculture sector and many other sectors comprising around one million customers via its 105 strong branch network.
‘Gratitude’ Loyalty Card of PLC will be initially presented to over 30,000 loyal customers from a cross-section of its customer base. They will receive Gold, Platinum and Silver loyalty cards.
‘Gratitude’ Loyalty Card of PLC will allow its loyal customers to obtain special discounts when transacting on vehicles, clothing, batteries, furniture, tourism sector, floral, spectacles, gold jewelry, vehicle services, vehicle spare parts, hospital bills.
At the inception an array of large and reputed business entities has tied up with PLC to offer discounts to its loyal customers via the ‘Gratitude’ Loyalty Card of PLC. These companies include; Nolimit, Vision Care, Amaya Hotels and Spa, Asiri Hospitals, Auto Miraj, CIB, Damro, Jetwing Hotels, Jinasena company, Lassana Flora, People’s Travels, Senok, Swarnamahal, Lanka Ashok Leyland, Janashakthi Insurance, JAT Holdings, Toyota Lanka, Dimo, Mydeal.lk and David Pieris Motor Company.
Many other companies are in the pipeline to tie-up with PLC ‘Gratitude’ Loyalty Card program.
At the unveiling ceremony, Mr. Sabry Ibrahim, CEO/GM, PLC said, PLC ‘Gratitude’ Loyalty Card is meant to pay gratitude to the company’s loyal customers.
“PLC has dedicated to offer its customers more and more facilities as value additions to its products. With this loyalty card, our loyal customers would derive more benefits when transacting with a diverse set of vendors. A host of reputed companies have already tied up to offer benefits to PLC loyal customers via PLC ‘Gratitude’ Loyalty Card. Many more companies will join the bandwagon soon.”
People’s Leasing was commissioned in 1995 as a wholly owned subsidiary of one of the largest state banks in Sri Lanka, the People’s Bank.
Fitch Rating Lanka has assigned PLC a credit rating of AA- (lka) which makes PLC the highest rated Finance company in the country. PLC is the only Sri Lankan Finance company to have two international ratings of which one is equal to the Sovereign from Standard & Poor’s (‘B+/B’) and the other is one notch below the Sovereign from Fitch Rating International (‘B’).
PLC’s financial service product portfolio includes; leasing, auto loan, fixed deposits, saving accounts, housing and business loans, gold loan, margin trading, factoring and Islamic financial services.
People’s Leasing conglomerate consists of six subsidiaries namely, People’s Insurance PLC, People’s Micro-Commerce Ltd, People’s Leasing Property Development Ltd, People’s Leasing Fleet Management Ltd, People’s Leasing Havelock Properties Ltd and its latest foreign venture Lankan Alliance Finance Limited.
The uniqueness of People’s Leasing is its strength and the stability to provide diverse financial solutions under one roof to its customers, thus enabling the customers to obtain convenient and customer friendly services.