BNI members have a gala time celebrating their fifth anniversary!
Hyderabad, 1st July, 2017: BNI Hyderabad, - the world's largest business referral organisation, with presence in 77 countries, hosted a Gala Evening to celebrate its fifth anniversary on Saturday at HITEX Exhibition Center, Madhapur. Mr Mahesh Mac Srinivasan, President, Asia Pacific & National Director, India, BNI; Mr Murali Srinivasan, District Director, BNI South-India and Mr Bharath Shah, Executive Director, BNI, Hyderabad; joined over 1500 members and their families from all over India, to make the occasion truly memorable.
The evening had a colourful fashion Show spread over five sequences, with members in designer outfits pranced the ramp to the rousing applause from the audience. Outstanding BNI members were presented with awards in recognition of their stupendous performance and being the epitomes of 'Givers Gain1 in the true spirit of BNI. Later Ishita Sarkar's Musical Nite mesmerized the gathering, the auduience enjoyed it to the hilt and let their hair down.
About BNI
BNI is a platform where members work as sales promoters for each other. Every member constantly explores opportunities to generate business for fellow members. Often even the best of the dedicated sales professionals employed by an organisation may not match up to this motivated sales force.
Today, BNI has 221,000 members in 8,026 local chapters in 77 countries. Members globally passed on 9.3 million referrals which translated into over $13.5 Bn worth of business in the preceding twelve months alone. The BNI at Hyderabad is completing 5 years this June and already has 1000 staunch advocates of the concept across 23 chapters.
Last year alone BNI Hyderabad facilitated Rs 550 crs of business and is continuing with its spree of fostering the growth of entrepreneurship and business in this part of the country, says Mr Shah.
It currently has 321 Chapters with over 14,720 members in thirty one cities in India, which are equally robust and growing from strength to strength. Members passed 5,66,909 referrals in India, which translated into over Rs. 5005 crores of referral Business in 2016.
We are one organisation which is persistently working towards making our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's dream of 'Make In India', a realty, opines Mr Shah. Each of our members is hungry for that extra business and this quest will propel the growth of Indian business, he adds.
