Patton Press May 2015

MAY 2015ISSUE 13

A PERFECT MATCHPatton Acquired by Beijer Ref AB

Patton Press | Issue 13 | May 20152

CONTENTS// HIGHLIGHTS

EDITOR & CREATIVE DIRECTOR DIO ZHAO EDITORS VANESSA ADAMS CONTRIBUTORS SAMEER HANDA, JON PICKFORD, SUMEDHA ARYA, MARGARET WALKER, CRAIG PARKER GILLIAN RICKETTS & PORNPHAN YANAROD

PATTON ACQUIRED BY BEIJER REF AB

VISIT FROM BEIJER REF GROUP

AIRAH TRADE NIGHTS

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PATTON TAKING IT INPHILIPPINESP21

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Here we are, 2014 is well and truly behind us and we are looking forward to exciting times ahead.

1st April, 2015 marked a significant day in the history of Patton Limited. The Swedish refrigeration group, Beijer Ref AB, acquired 100% of Patton Ltd. Beijer Ref is one of the largest refrigeration wholesalers in the world and this acquisition is a significant step forward in the company’s strategy to continue its growth outside Europe.

Patton is very excited to be part of Beijer Group, which opens up several new opportunities for further growth. Patton will continue to operate as an independent business using existing branding under Beijer’s ownership.

Patton Wellington started the year off receiving a well-deserved facelift in February. The revamp has received many positive comments from customers. Patton Australia will once again be taking part in the AIRAH trade nights held nationwide. Patton India have moved to a bigger warehouse in New Delhi. This will support their expansion plans going forward. More good news: Patton Thailand is becoming the most successful contender in the refrigeration market in the Philippines. We can look forward to more exciting news from this promising region.

On the social front, we are making good progress with LinkedIn now having more than 1000 followers giving us wider exposure. We ended the financial year end on a high note and we are looking forward to a successful year ahead.

Sameer HandaCEO, Patton Group of Companies

MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO


New Zealand

Autumn in New Zealand


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Patton, a market leader in the Pacifi c and Asean refrigeration and HVAC industry, has been acquired by the Swedish refrigeration group,

Beijer Ref AB.

Founded in 1923, Patton is the leading refriger-ation wholesaler in New Zealand, with its head offi ce in Auckland and further operations in New Zealand, Australia, India and Thailand.

Beijer Ref is one of the largest refrigeration wholesalers in the world and Patton’s acquisition is a signifi cant step forward in the company’s strategy to continue its growth outside Europe.

”This is a key acquisition which gives us a foot-hold in the important markets of New Zealand, Australia and India and, at the same time,

strengthens our existing operations in Thailand. Patton is an established company with a long tradition and a strong growth potential in its markets. The company eminently fi ts our pro-fi le”, says Per Bertland, CEO of Beijer Ref.

Patton’s current management team and staff will continue to build Patton as a preferred “sup-plier of choice” for its customers in all the mar-kets we operate.

We are very excited to be part of the Beijer Ref Group and see the synergy in our operations opening up several new opportunities for us to further grow successfully. Patton will continue to operate as an independent business, using existing branding, under Beijer’s ownership, says Sameer Handa, CEO of Patton.

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About Beijer Ref AB.

Beijer Ref is a technology-oriented trading Group which, through added-value products, off ers its customers competitive solutions

within refrigeration and climate control. Beijer Ref is one of the three largest refrigeration wholesalers in the world, and is represented in Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Holland, Norway, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Thailand.

Patton Acquired by Beijer Ref AB

For more info visitwww.beijerref.com/en/Company

A PERFECT MATCH


Better by DesignCEO SUMMIT 2015

Patton Management Team (including: Patton CEO Sameer Handa, NZ General Manager Philip Hitchins, AU National Sales Manager John McCarey and National Technical Manager Craig Parker) will be attending the CEO Summit

2015 in Auckland, NZ in May.

The summit, held every 18 months since 2005, is a two-day inspirational design conference that brings to life some of the theory and concepts of design in business, and helps expose business leaders to global best practice in design, design thinking and innovation.

As well as inspiring New Zealand’s business leaders to adopt design thinking and build innovative company cultures, the summit also seeks to introduce them to tools that enable design-led evolution within their businesses. It will also be an opportunity for participants to share experiences and learn from each other. Summit content is within a framework of what is relevant to New Zealand business at the time, and what is possible through turning design thinking into design doing.

The CEO Summit 2015 theme is ‘Balancing Transformation’. Together attendees will explore the tension of managing disruptive innovation while delivering against current business plans. Some of the tensions often seen in business include...

How do you:• Evolve your culture to embrace change?• Imagine a future that doesn’t exist while delivering today’s plan?• Make choices on where to apply radical or incremental innovation?• Bring great ideas to market at speed while keeping the rest of the organisation on the rails?• Fuse creativity with the operational and analytical?

Sameer Handa Philip Hitchins John McCarrey Craig Parker

Dr Jill Bolte Taylor talks about how organisations are like brains

Gadi Amit @NewD-ealDesign: challenge more logical ideas with sideways, dark horse concepts - they often win

Inspirational NZ stories: Dan Radcliff e @ International Vol-unteer HQ from one man band to global sensation

David Butler from Coke, talking about focusing on the ‘shark bite’ problems

BBD Summit speaker panel & audience: What will you do next?

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The new products include: wall and fl oor mounted heat pumps such as RapidHeat HyperCore® Series and HyperCore® FH Series. While ordinary heat pumps produce less heat below 7 degrees, only Mitsubishi Electric HyperCore® Technology guarantees its fully rated capacity right down to -15 degrees so customers get all the heat they are paying for.

For more information please visit www.mitsubishi-electric.co.nz/heatpump/

2015 A Space OdysseyMitsubishi Electric Specialist Product Releases

Patton was invited to the Mitsubishi Electric Special-ist Product Releases func-tion by BDT on Monday 16th February 2015. Held in the Langham Hotel Auckland, this product release was an exciting and successful function.

The latest Mitsubishi Electric innovations which are destined to revolution-ise the heat pump market were presented in an ‘out of this world’ style - Mitsubishi Electric Space Lab.


Visit from Beijer Ref Group

To mark the acqui-sition of Patton Limited by the Beijer Ref Group

all Auckland staff had the privilege of meeting the CFO/EVP of Beijer Ref AB, Mr Jonas Lindqvist, during a visit to our Auckland head offi ce from Monday 13th April to Thursday 16th April.

At the start of his visit on Monday Jonas gave us a very interesting and informative presentation on Beijer Ref AB and an-swered all our questions.

To introduce Jonas to our New Zealand culture we invited Jonas for a kiwi-style BBQ lunch and following this our CEO, Sameer Handa, present-ed him with a gift of a hand carved mere. A mere is one of the tra-ditional, close combat, one-handed weapons of the indigenous Māori of New Zealand and a symbol of chieftainship.

Beijer Ref’s CFO & EVPJonas Lindqvist


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WEDNESDAY

1ST APRIL2015

GAMES AND FOODSTARTING IN THEWAREHOUSEAT 4:30PM.

Getting Socialat Patton

Our Patton social club continues the challenge to have fun with our colleagues; we believe

it’s important in creating an enjoyable and cooperative environment in the workplace. It’s all about having fun, getting to know each other while play-ing interactive games and seeing people’s creativity fl ow, as well as sharing an enjoyable meal.

On Wednesday 1st April we ended our day with our fi rst social event for the year. Once again we had a fun and interactive selection of games such as egg throwing, egg and spoon race, balloon target and ended the evening with lots of concentration playing a few games of Bingo!

In line with the Cricket World Cup we started the night with the balloon target game. This took some concentration and skill and to our surprise we had a few brilliant bowlers in our midst, making the target look super easy and all the winners were reward-ed with a prize from our display of super prizes!

The egg tossing game proved to be the highlight and the most fun of all the games. Many of our contestants ended the game cov-ered in raw egg but two teams skillfully tossed their eggs great distances. The winning teams of the two games were Yogesh and Nitesh as well as Saw and Paea.

The evening ended with a healthy meal and each person leaving with a worthwhile prize of their choice. A big “thank you” to Umesh who works tirelessly to ensure the wellbeing of all staff is taken care of. We look forward to our next event where we continue to socialize and share.

- VANESSA ADAMS


Wellington Branch was badly in need of some TLC as the front of the building was looking very tired. The

paint was faded and the graphics were peeling off the sign.

It was defi nitely not show-ing the image of a dynamic and go-ahead company and branch.

So, towards the end of 2014 it was decided that the building was in need of a makeover. I provided Dio with a photo of the front of the premises, he worked his ‘magic’ and came up with

the current colour scheme and signage.

At the end of February the painting and signage were fi nally fi nished and it looks great!

Our customers have commented that the building is very much improved – it now looks smart and bright.

BEFORE

- ANDY HENDERSON

NEWLOOK! Patton Wellington

FACE LIFT


Hello. Hej. (HAY.)

How are you? Hur mår du? (Hoor mor doo?)

Fine, thank you. Tack, jag mår bra. (Tack, yag moor brah.)

What is your name? Vad heter du? (Vaad hay-tehr doo?)

My name is _ . Jag heter _ . (Yag hay-tehr _ .)

Nice to meet you. Trevligt att träff a dig. (Trayv-leet at treh-fa day.)

Thank you. Tack. (Tack.)

You’re welcome. Var så god. (VAHR saw good)

Yes. Ja. (YAH.)

No. Nej. (NAY.)

I’m sorry. Jag är ledsen. (Yaag air lessen.)

Goodbye. Hej då. (Hay doe.)

Help! Hjälp! (Yelp!)

Good morning. God morgon. (Good morron.)

Good day. God dag. (Good daag.)

Good afternoon. God eftermiddag. (Good eftermeedag.)

Good evening. God kväll. (Good kvell.)

Good night (to sleep.) God natt (Good natt.)

To be continued...

Let’s talk in Swedish - Basic

Tauranga Branch Manager, Harvey Win, played the drums in the orchestra for the recent Tauranga Musical Theatre production The Little Shop of Horrors.

The Little Shop of Horrors is a comedy horror rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless fl orist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and fl esh. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy fi lm The Little Shop of Horrors, direct-ed by Roger Corman. The music, composed by Menken in the style of early 1960s rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, includes several well-known tunes, including the title song, “Skid Row (Downtown)”, “Somewhere That’s Green”, and “Suddenly, Seymour”.

Harvey has played drums ever since secondary school, and then continued performing in many bands. He is a member of a few local bands playing in diff erent gen-res – jazz, rock and folk, and most recently he played in the Tauranga Jazz Festival. This is Harvey’s second production with the Tauranga Musical Theatre, the fi rst being Chicago and he is looking forward to the future upcoming productions.

Hej!

Our VeryTalented ManagerOur VeryTalented Manager

Harvey Win

- GILLIAN RICKETTS

Site Visit Craig Parker & Alddon MacKay recently visited the new Biomarine Oyster processing facility in Wellsford, north of Auckland. Just

recently commissioned, the plant is solely equipped with Patton capital plant for refrigeration.

There is a large blast freezer with Copeland Stream Rack & 3 x JCW evaps running at -36°C. This plant is freezing trays of oysters in half shell from 10° to -23° in just fi fteen minutes.

Additional to the blast freezer are storage freezers, refrigerated process areas and refrigerated load-in/load-out areas.

- CRAIG PARKER


Australia

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia


Trade NightsTrade NightsTrade NightsAIRAH 2015

Thursday, 5 March Coffs Harbour, NSW CEXThursday, 19 March Hobart, Tas Wrest Point CasinoTuesday, 23 June Western Sydney, NSW Parramatta LeaguesThursday, 16 July Melbourne, VIC Flemington RacecourseThursday, 30 July Brisbane, QLD Brisbane Racing ClubThursday, 13 August Newcastle, NSW Newcastle PanthersTuesday, 25 August Cairns, QLD Shangri-LaThursday, 27 August Townsville, QLD Jupiters Casino

Patton Australia will exhibit at the following AIRAH 2015 Trade Nights:

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Date Location Venue

Trade NightsAIRAH 2015

Thursday, 5 March Coffs Harbour, NSW CEXThursday, 19 March Hobart, Tas Wrest Point CasinoTuesday, 23 June Western Sydney, NSW Parramatta LeaguesThursday, 16 July Melbourne, VIC Flemington RacecourseThursday, 30 July Brisbane, QLD Brisbane Racing ClubThursday, 13 August Newcastle, NSW Newcastle PanthersTuesday, 25 August Cairns, QLD Shangri-LaThursday, 27 August Townsville, QLD Jupiters Casino

Patton Australia will exhibit at the following AIRAH 2015 Trade Nights:

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Date Location Venue

The AIRAH Trade Night allows AIRAH members and other industry representatives to discuss, touch and ob-

serve new products in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration industry.

At the AIRAH Trade Night in Hobart Tasmania, Patton Australia show-

cased the new Unit Coolers with light weight alu case - ‘Signal White’ powder coat and factory applied ‘Blue Coil Coat’ corrosion protec-tion features. UNADA motors and Uniweld tools were also displayed.

In order to make the Patton booth stand out, a brand new wall banner and a travel case which converts to

a promotion table were also created.

The next AIRAH Trade Night will be in Western Sydney on Tuesday, 23rd

June. So save the date and come to visit our stand!

Check out the full schedule


India

The Holy City Haridwar on the Ganges in India


Patton India Product Display in Trade Shows

Patton displays at 5th India cold chain show at Mumbai:India Cold chain show was held at Mumbai from 10th to 12th December 2014 and we displayed Patton evaporator. Navneet Kumar from Patton Ahmedabad was present at the stall on all three days along with other senior team members. 14-15 business enquiries were received including one from Sri Lanka.

Around 110 exhibitors from over 14 countries including India, Italy, France and many more participated in the event. The event bought together the cold storage and supply chain industry professionals.

Patton displays at ACREX 2015, Bangalore:ACREX India show was held at Bangalore from 26th to 28th February 2015 and we displayed Patton evaporator units, Henry, Fieldpiece, Sup-co and Uniweld products at the stall of two of our appointed dealers from south India (Shra-van Ref Air Pvt Ltd, Bangalore and Refrigeration & Allied Traders, Chennai). Vikram, Devaiah and Patton south zone team members were present at the stalls for all the three days. Swatantra also attended the show for two days.

ACREX India is the largest International show in South Asia on Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Building Services. More than 300 exhibitors from over 12 countries including India, China, Germany, USA and many more participated in the event.

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- SUMEDHA ARYA


Patton India Moved to a Bigger Warehouse in New Delhi

Patton India inaugurated its new warehouse at Ghitorni, New Delhi on 5th December 2014. We have shifted to a bigger warehouse, which was needed to expand operations.

In the morning hours of 5th Dec, we started the warehouse activities with havan puja (a sacred ceremony) and prayers for prosperity and profi table business for Patton. Coconut breaking ceremony by Abilash was followed by Ribbon cutting and then havan puja. The entire Patton team attended this auspicious occasion.

- SUMEDHA ARYA


One of the major festivals of India, Holi was celebrated with enthusiasm and gaiety by team Patton India in the month of March 2015. The main event of Holi is indeed a carnival of colors and is a celebration of triumph of good over evil,

a community festival and a tradition of ancient spring rites.

We, at Patton India, made arrangements in offi ce to play and celebrate Holi. Celebrations begin with Patton staff applying Gulal (colours) on each other to make their faces colorful and later on distribution of Gyjiya a type of sweet distributed during holy festival.

Entire staff enjoyed the and it was a great fun !

Patton India Team celebrates Holi Festival!

Holi is a spring festival, also known as the festival of colours or the festival of love. It is an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many parts of South Asia, as well as people of other communities outside Asia.

- SUMEDHA ARYA


BY TEAM PATTON INDIA

BIG WIN

team Patton India has proved this once again. Wow!! Big win by team! In the month of March 2015 Patton India has won a big order for supply of tool kits, instruments and safety equipment (710 Tool kits).

This order was to be supplied within very tight timelines. Our logistics team has put in their best eff orts to process this

order on time and did it successfully.

Team comprising of Sachin, Akash, Vipin and led by Abilash has left no stone unturned to get this order supplied on time. There were 67 items to be procured from various international brands to make a tool kit. Procurement of products and making these tool kits ready for dispatch was like setting up an assembly shop within our warehouse and warehouse team came out with fl ying colors. They have set an example of team work. Good job done Abilash, Sachin, Akash and Vipin. Keep it up!

“Together we can do so much”

- SUMEDHA ARYA


Call us @ 092 6670 6670 Patton India’s Phone Number

Patton India has now provided a single phone number access to its customers across India. An easy to remember phone number (092 6670 6670) is being circulated to all customers, dealers, OEMs and

consultants to provide ease of access to Patton India.

Sumedha and Bhanu spearheaded this project and are working to make it a success.

Stickers saying “Call us @ 092 6670 6670” were pasted at business partner / dealer shops. Sumedha sent WhatsApp messages through this number and has set it as part of the digital signature on the emails of all Patton India employees.

There is a long way to go to make this single number popular among all business partners but Sumedha is striving hard to make this happen.

Business Partner Events

In the last three months the team has attended the following events organized by our business partners / dealers and represented Patton

India:

In January Swatantra attended the opening ceremony of a new shop by Ramesh Trading, Mumbai and Ramesh Patel was very excited to have Patton staff with him for this occasion. On behalf of Patton, an Idol of Ganesha was presented to Ramesh to mark such a signifi cant milestone.

In December Vikram attended the opening of Volga Mumbai.

Recently Swatantra and Arun attended the opening ceremo-ny of Volga Agencies Indore. Team Volga is very proud to business with Patton at all their branches i.e. Ahmadabad, Baroda, Mumbai and Indore.

- SUMEDHA ARYA

- SUMEDHA ARYA


Thailand

Bangkok City aerial view


Patton takingit all inPhilippines

In a matter of a few months of marketing, our success has been phenomenal with most of the major projects this year and the major customers turning to Patton.

The success story includes the following major customers and projects:

• Panasonic Retail – Panasonic has converted their entire workload from Danfoss to Patton Evaporators, Compressor Racks and CDU’s• Family Mart – We have already delivered 80 stores of refrigeration and have secured the exclusive contract for 5 years with approximately 10 stores per month.• Lawson Convenience Stores – We are delivering our fi rst 2 stores in April and expect to continue to deliver stores this year through Panasonic.• Alphamart Premium Stores – We have delivered our 1st Premium store as a store format test. Assuming this is successful, we expect nearly 1000 stores.• SM Super Markets – We have been awarded our fi rst 2 major supermarkets with the biggest retailer in the Philippines. We expect a further 5 more stores this year.• SM Hyper – Our bid has been successful and we are awaiting offi cial confi rmation.• SM Savemore - Our bid has been successful and we are awaiting offi cial confi rmation.

Santis Deli Manufacturing – This is the largest facility this year for industrial refrigeration and we have been successfully awarded this project in April.

The ASEAN General Manager has been performing this marketing directly and attributes Patton success to the exceptional design performance of Thailand’s Technical Manager, Mark Campbell, who has been tireless in his eff orts to produce the best products for the Philippines market. This market is exceptionally challenging given the 60Hz power supply and multiple voltages available in the Philippines.

Patton is new to the Philippines market but without doubt we have become the most successful contender in the

refrigeration market in 2015.

- JON PICKFORD

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PATTON

Patton Thailand celebrated the Songkran

Festival on 13 April. But how could

Songkran festival without Water pouring? A

Water pouring competition was held between

the staff . who was the winner? But who care?

As long as they had so much fun!

The Songkran festival (from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti, or literally “astrological passage”) is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year’s Day from 13 to 15 April. It coincides with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia. The festive occasion is in keeping with the Buddhist/Hindu solar calendar.

The traditional water pouring is meant as a symbol of washing away all of their sins and the bad and is sometimes fi lled with fragrant herbs when celebrated in the traditional manner

- PORNPHAN YANAROD


After two years planning and hard work, our LinkedIn followers number has increased from 230 to 1026. LinkedIn is one the most important social media tools for a

business-to-business company like Patton.

According to a recent study of the 50,000 member strong B2B technology marketing community on LinkedIn, 85 per cent of respondents said LinkedIn is the best social network through which to spread content. In a separate study, Webbiquity found that, at 17 per cent, social media drove a majority of traffic to blogs when com-

pared to other vehicles. Moreover, of the social media networks, LinkedIn generated the most traffic, responsible for 8.5 per cent of all traffic. From weaving LinkedIn into our lead generation strategy to relying on it to increase our website traffic, there are a number of use cases for the exceedingly popular professional network-ing site. And, in many instances, LinkedIn is surpassing Facebook and Twitter in terms of its marketing potential.

Patton will continue to focus on using LinkedIn as the key social media tool alongside Google+, Twitter and YouTube.

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