Dear colleagues, usually at this time of year I write to you with plans and priorities, but this year above all else I want to thank you.
I want to say thank you entirely team (CPPians), in 2020 our company brand spreads in 161 countries across the globe. And we stand as one of the best entrepreneurship print and packaging companies in PAN India.
In this COVID era, we expand our business into Pharma, FMCG industries and we manufacture and deliver packaging products double compare to the last financial year 2019-20.
"The year was tagged as the year of crisis – a crisis in health, a crisis in the economy, a crisis in jobs, a crisis in business continuity. But as a reputed print and packaging company, we grab the opportunities, and we achieved."
Now we invest in our employee wellness in the COVID era. The investment in wellness technologies has increased to double, from 18 percent to 36 percent.
The logistical challenges that consumed the leadership team over the past year do not compare to the personal challenges many of you have faced. Behind the pandemic’s unfathomable statistics are individual stories of pain and loss. My deepest sympathies are with all who have been directly affected.
It is important, also, to acknowledge the psychological toll of upheaval. It is a burden you have shouldered with great professionalism. Set against tremendous loss, this has also been the year in which I have most vividly seen people work towards things, both big and small because they were the right things to do - not just because they thought their efforts would succeed.
Beyond individual companies, citizens and governments have come together in ways that only recently would have been hard to imagine. We are, I hope, on the threshold of a new era of co-operation, in which individuals, businesses, and nations more readily join forces. We need it. To distribute a vaccine to every country in the world will be an international operation of unparalleled complexity. The same is true of rapid testing and new treatments. Only a global effort can get us back to normality.
If there is one lesson to take away from this consequential work, it is best summed up in a quote by the successful football coach, Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant: ‘It’s not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.’ It can be difficult, in the heat of a crisis, to keep focused on the long term, but it is essential. The pandemic didn’t alter the course of the world so much as accelerate it along the path it was already on, especially when it comes to questions we can no longer avoid - whether it is the pivotal nature of technology in the era we enter, our relationship to the planet or the roles of our public, private and civil society institutions.
Rules are being rewritten. This year we learned that many things once undertaken outside the home can be done equally well inside it. Shopping. Education. Healthcare. Work. Alongside practical adaptations to lockdown, there has been a shift in priorities: greater focus on safety and resilience, and a transition from ‘just in time’ toward ‘just in case’. Such changes offer a glimpse of the new economy that will emerge from the old. Resilience will be key-in our approach to the environment, supply chains, or how we build stronger connections with our communities.
Though this year has been hard, we end it with a renewed sense of possibility. Buried in the stress and trauma of Covid-19 are opportunities for renewal. Pandemics have, in the past, inspired progress in medicine, urban planning, architecture, and countless other fields. This one will be the same. This moment is akin to walking on a bridge, but it’s a special bridge because we are not simply waiting to see what is on the other side. Instead, we have a hand in building our destination.
Happy Holidays, and to a New Beginning in 2021,
- Kondaiah Chowdary