Federation of Industrial & Commercial Organization, popularly known as FICO turns five years old. Incepted on 07.10.2013 by a galaxy of 13 friends, is now a family of 1874 strong members & growing. On FICO’s 5th Annual Grand Meeting held at Hotel Radisson BLU, Ferozepur Road, Ludhiana Shri Sunil Kant Munjal Chairman Hero Enterprises was the chief guest, Shri Rajive Chawla Chairman I am SME of India was the guest of honor. The Journey of MSME’s in next decade was the theme of the event. On the occasion S. Gurmeet Singh Kular have been announced the Unopposed President for the next 5 years.

Shri Sunil Kant Munjal Chief Guest speaking on the occasion said that No one is bound to succeed, unless he enjoys what he does. He said one’s work should not be a burden to him, it should be enjoyment, he said that he travels a lot, and he is never tired of it, or of working.

Shri Rajive Chawla Chairman I am SME of India, discussed the journey of MSME’s in the next decade i.e. 2018-2028. He said there is going to be an entirely new market ten years from now, he shared an example of Amazon, that how it is taking place of traditional trading businesses. He said to survive one needs to be upgraded and keep himself up to date with technical know-how.

Also on the occasion, FICO recognized 30 personalities with an Award for their fruitful efforts for upliftment of the industry. Under noted is the list of awardees.

1) Bhagwan Singh Matharoo of Bhagwan Cycle Industries with Award of Excellence
2) Gurwinder Singh Sachdeva  of H. S. Sachdeva & Sons with Award of Excellence
3) Rajat Mongia of Rex Industrial Corpn. with Award of Excellence
4) Ajay Nagrath of Pearl Polymers with Award of Excellence
5) Sushil Arora of Indian Institute of Human Excellence & Development with Award of Excellence
6) Paramjeet Singh Plaha of Nirbhai Builders with Award of Excellence
7) Chetan Kansal of Allwyn Bikes Pvt Ltd  with Award of Excellence
8) Maheshwar Gupta of Vee Aar Industries with Award of Excellence
9) Sanjay Goel  of Designex Architects with Award of Excellence
10) Raghav Chaudhary of Sind Engineering Works with Award of Excellence
11) Aryaman Verma with Award of Excellence
12) Baljeet Singh Makkar of Punjab Hardware & Mill Store with Service Excellence Award
13) Rajinder Singh of JBR Technologies Limited with Service Excellence Award
14) Dr Gaganjit Khurana of Life Diagnostics with Service Excellence Award
15) Munish Maini of Hindustan Tyres Limited with Employer of the Year
16) Raman Seth of Seth industrial Corpn with Best Enterprising Business
17) Anil Singhania of Singhania International Limited with Best Enterprising Business
18) Bikramjit Bembi of National Industries with Company of the Year
19) Suresh Goyal of Jolly Metal Products with Company of the Year
20) Ranjodh Singh Riat of G.S. Radiators with Corporate Citizen
21) Ashok  Dhall of Emson Process with Entrepreneur of the Year 2018
22) Chaman  Parkash Gupta of Laj Exports with Exporter of Year
23) Ripan Goyal of Star Polyfabs with Young Entrepreneur of the Year
24) Harpal Singh Bhamber of Bhamber Mechanical Works with Business Person of the Year
25) Upinder Singh Sondh of Surindera Cycles Pvt. Ltd. with Business Innovation Award
26) Sukhdial Singh Basant  of Rattan Hammers with Entrepreneur of the Year
27) SS Bhogal of Bhogal Sales Corpn. with Life time Achievement
28) Manjinder Singh Sachdeva  of Citizen Group with Emerging MSME Co. of Year
29) Rajeev Jain of R R Bikes with Office Bearer of the year
30) Mankar Garg of CP Agriculture Pumps with Progressive Division of the Year
31) Mandeep Choudhry of Bicycle Mirror with Service Excellence Award