Acer rains gold coins and watches this Diwali

Bengaluru: Acer concluded three-day mega reward event for its channel partners, to acknowledge their exemplary performance during the month of September. The Shubha-Lakshmi scheme, part of Acer’s ongoing partner appreciation initiatives across the country in partnership with Microsoft, proved to be extremely successful. The company will be conducting reward distribution events across 12 cities in India, to felicitate its star channel partners, by gifting gold coins and watches.

This channel event, with a 'difference’ had various stalls to entertain the family members of the company’s channel partners. This novel event held in Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Pune, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Cochin, Nagpur, Guwahati conveys the company’s belief that family encouragement and support is the backbone of success in any form of business.

“September 2009 has been the best month ever, since Acer began operations in India 10 years back. We are sure all our partners will be as excited in joining us for this felicitation ceremony as we are in conducting it. This gesture reinforces Acer’s commitment to sustaining a rewarding relationship with our channel partners. All partners receiving rewards are from our retail channel community who have played a pivotal role in promoting genuine Microsoft OS on the Acer Hardware platform,” said WS Mukund, MD, Acer India.

Commenting on Acer’s initiative, Rajan Anandan, MD, Microsoft India said, “Acer’s channel network has truly mitigated the challenges of the tough economic times to post stupendous success in business across the last month and Shubha-Lakshmi is an innovative effort on part of the partner friendly Acer to acknowledge the passion which drove such business performance. I wish both Acer and its partner network even greater success.”

Acer, through its various schemes aims to infuse its retail channels business with high levels of energy and motivation, critical for driving sales and powering the success of the brand.