NORD India celebrated Family Day in recognition of 100crores milestone achievement on Jan 24, 2014, which is one of the novel strategies by NORD Management that has come up very well in reaching out to employee's families. Family-day helped everyone gel well with each other along with their families and creates a feeling of benevolence and goodwill towards organization. The 'connect-with-family benefits' strengthen emotional bonds as well as increase motivation, commitment and satisfaction.

Mr PL Muthusekkar, Managing Director, NORD India says "In Indian culture, family is the core of the society & as the family plays a prime role in any employee's life and career, we believe that reaching out to members helps strengthen the relationship with the employees".

The celebration started by welcoming all guests of honour Mr Klaus Bormann, Consul at the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Mumbai; Mr N Siva Subramanian, Managing Director, ThyssenKrupp and Mr Tushar Mehendale, Managing Director, Electromech along with all families and lamp lightening ceremony.

The company also unveiled their 2015 logos for 50 years completion in NORD Group and 10 years in NORD India by the hands of honourable guests Mr Klaus Bormann and Mr Sivasubramanian respectively, which was followed by the launch of company jersey with the logo. After that Mr Tushar Mehendale released special issue of NORD Insight, which is a quarterly magazine of NORD India.

Further, various edifying speeches were made by all the guests: Mr Jan Block, Global Sales Head, NORD Drivesystems and Mr Joerg Niermann, Global Marketing Head, NORD Drivesystems; followed by the thanks giving speech of Mr PL Muthusekkar, Managing Director, NORD India.

Mr Jan Block said, " I am very proud to celebrate this event with you and we have a lot to celebrate apart from reaching Rs 100 crore milestone in India, i.e., 10 years completion in India, 50 years completion for NORD Germany and reaching 500 million euros milestone for the NORD Group." He further added, "I am really impressed with the Indian team and their dedication, we have literally worked on broken glasses in the initial days. The current result shows that NORD India is a strong team with Passion for Growth."

Mr Joerg Niermann expressed his thanks to the guests and families for being present in the event. He shared many highlights of NORD India achievements in 2014 like "Customer Value leadership Award" by Frost & Sullivan, NORD India grabbing excellent marketshare in steel industry, etc. He ended up his speech with a German Saying, "nicht auf den Lorbeeren ausruben", which means "don't rest on laurels".

Mr Klaus Bormann highlighted the significance of having a great team in his speech with an excellent example of soccer world cup 2014. He says, I am really amazed after seeing huge number of Indian followers of soccer and as we all know Germany has won the world cup 2014, on this win somebody asked why Germany and not others, I was having only one reply Argentina has Messi, Brazil has Neymar Jr., Portugal has Cristiano Ronaldo but Germany has a great team. Similarly, NORD has a strong team who is responsible for achieving Rs 100 crore milestones. Further, Commenting on the new government in place, he says, "India and Germany are together for Mr Modi's 'Make In India' Project and India is very important country for Germany."

Lastly Mr Muthusekkar thanked everyone for their presence and kind words. He said, "Charity begins at home and success starts at home, and that is the importance of family."

NORD India also rewarded employees for long serving and outstanding attendance at the event and spouses were invited to receive these awards.