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Events 41 maltatoday, Sunday, 25 May 2014 HSBC: leading people through change Emirates SkyCargo launches freighter service to Mexico City and Atlanta HSBC Bank Malta brought to- gether business leaders from four prominent Maltese businesses for the second inter-company lead- ership development programme called 'Crossover'. An inter-company seminar's pan- el, formed by HSBC Malta Retail Banking & Wealth Management (RBWM) Head Paul Steel, Play- mobil Malta CEO Mattias Fauser, Island Hotels Group CEO Winston J. Zahra, Lufthansa Technik Malta CEO Stephen Drewes, and Si- monds Farsons Cisk CEO Norman Aquilina, met with their respective employees at the Radisson Blu Re- sort, Golden Sands, to discuss and shed light on how to tackle their particular business challenges, as well as to share best practices and techniques for addressing change to build on success stories. The aim of the development pro- gramme was to bring together the talented leaders from the different successful companies and market sectors within various Maltese industries to help participants gain a better understanding of the changes taking place in different organisations. Each panel member shared effec- tive strategies on the challenges affecting their companies and the market in Malta, their expecta- tions from their leaders and man- agers as well as some advice on how to achieve personal success. "Customer expectations have changed dramatically in the last few years," said Paul Steel from HSBC Bank. "Businesses nowa- days must be quick, not only to adapt into the fast paced changing world, but to remain competitively ahead. "We are constantly facing new opportunities, new products and new business initiatives. Leading our employees through change, we need their commitment in order to achieve the desired results to en- hance the business performance." The programme also helped the participants to build more rela- tionship networking between com- panies and to seek ways how best they can work together to address on-going developments in an in- creasingly dynamic marketplace. The participants received a pres- entation from the Richmond Foun- dation. The companies will be working on a Corporate Social Re- sponsibility (CSR) project together with the Richmond Foundation with the aim of increasing aware- ness about mental health wellbe- ing and enrolling a number of cor- porate clients to benefit from the support and services Richmond Foundation offers. Emirates SkyCargo, the freight divi- sion of Emirates, has added Mexico City and Atlanta to its flight sched- ule, further expanding its freighter network to more than 50 destina- tions around the world. The once-a-week service to Mexi- co City starts in Dubai with a stop en route to Frankfurt, while on the way back the flight makes a scheduled stop in Houston and Copenhagen before heading back to Dubai. The freighter service to Hartsfield-Jack- son Atlanta Airport from Dubai, which is also a weekly service, has a scheduled stop in Frankfurt and on the return leg stops at Copenhagen. This multi-stop service provides customers with the additional ben- efit of moving cargo between these cities. On both routes Emirates Sky- Cargo uses its Boeing 777 Freighter aircraft, which is capable of carry- ing 103 tonnes of cargo, and with its main deck being the widest of any freighter aircraft, it's able to uplift outsized cargo and carry larger con- signments. "The recent introduction of freighter services to Mexico City and Atlanta is part of Emirates Sky- Cargo's continued expansion of our route network to offer customers new trade and business opportu- nities across the world. Both cities are major cargo destinations, with Mexico City being one of the larg- est manufacturing hubs in Latin America, while Atlanta ranks tenth among North American airports in terms of cargo volume," said Nabil Sultan, Emirates Divisional Senior Vice President, Cargo. Imports into Mexico City include general cargo, pharmaceuticals, textiles, apparel, machinery and electronic parts, with its exports being mainly general cargo, phar- maceuticals, automotive and ship parts. Goods moving into Atlanta are mainly general cargo, textiles, apparel, footwear and leather goods, while its exports across the Emir- ates network include general cargo, construction equipment, machin- ery, electrical and electronic equip- ment and products. Emirates SkyCargo has a fleet of 12 freighters, 10 Boeing 777 Fs and two Boeing 747-400 ERFs, which from 1 May 2014 started operating from its new cargo terminal at Du- bai World Central's Al Maktoum International Airport. Emirates flies on a daily schedule from Malta to Dubai. From 1st Au- gust 2014, the airline will be oper- ating twice daily flights between Dubai and Malta. Emirates Sky- Cargo is located on the First Floor at MIA Departures and can be con- tacted on tel. no 2166 0102, or at skycargomla@emirates.com. GO contributes to 'Let's Do It!' clean up The Let's Do It! cleanup event which took place on Satur- day 10 May and Sun- day 11 May across 20 sites in Malta and Gozo was supported by GO staff, which actively participated in the cleanup event – on land at Dingli Cliffs and at sea in Valletta.. The Let's Do It! Malta event was part of Let's Do It! Medi- terranean, a regional effort to clean up the sea and coastal re- gions of the Mediterranean Sea over a weekend. The Let's Do It! move- ment is one of the fastest growing international civic movements, having been formed in 2008 when 50,000 people in Estonia came to- gether on one day to clean up the country. Laurie Pace from Brand Market- ing at GO, said, "Let's Do It! was a great initiative, with 20 sites around Malta and Gozo, on land and under- water, being cleaned up over a single weekend. By supporting this event, GO continues to support the com- munity and to play an active role in helping to ensure we can all enjoy a better environment." Rebecca Borg from Let's Do It! Malta said, "GO's support was great and the clean up was a tremendous success. We collected over 23 tons of waste and that's a conservative estimate. It's only when everyone comes together that we truly make a difference. This time we've made our beautiful country cleaner and we look forward to building on this success next year." More information on the campaign can be found on: www.letsdoitmalta.org. Attard & Co. host Masi wine tasting Masi Agricola Export Manager Ca- rina Kurttila gave a presentation on the leading Amarone producer Masi, owned by the Boscaini fam- ily for the past six generations, and took guests through six wines out of a portfolio of 35 labels on 15 of May. The event, introduced by John Bugeja, Wines and Marketing Ex- ecutive of Attard & Co. Food Ltd, was held in the spacious foyer of Attard & Co.'s premises, the Canter Business Centre in Marsa. Kurttila explained how the cur- rent owner of Masi Agricola, Dott. Sandro Boscaini, is the sixth gen- eration owner of the high qual- ity vineyards in the Vaio dei Masi, along with his brothers Bruno, an engineer who is responsible for all the facilities and the logistics, and Mario, a shareholder who is not ac- tive in the company. Sandro, who has made it his life- time passion to interpret the values of the Venetian region and even exported them to other regions in Italy and as far as Argentina, in South America, has also involved his two children in the business, Alessandra and Raffaele, who are Commercial and Marketing Direc- tors, respectively. The original Masi winery is based in Verona, in the Valpolicella Clas- sico region, but it also produces wines in other Verona areas, in- cluding Soave and Bardolino. Thus, Masi can be said to be producers of supervenetian wines, Kurttila pointed out. Thanks to collaboration with the Conti Serego Alighieri, descendents of the poet Dante, a noble family that has lived in Verona since 1363, Masi also produces a wine with grapes from Tuscany, with Vaio Ar- maron being their top wine from this region capable of ageing for 30 or 40 years. It also produces in the regions of Friuli and Trentino, where a similar collaboration with another noble fam- ily, the Conti Bossi Fedrigotti, enables Masi to handle the production and distribution of the wines from the vineyards spread over 40 hectares in Revereto. "Their top wine is Fojaneghe, the first Bor- deaux blend that even predates the Sassicaia in 1961," Kurttila said. What also makes Masi stand out is its appassimento production method, which Sandro has updated to the appaxximento, which puts the XXI century technology into a winemaking tradition that dates back to the Romans. Kurttila ex- plained that this involves storing the grapes on bamboo trays in lofts to allow them to concentrate colour and aroma. This technology has also been introduced in Argentina, where an indigenous Verona grape, the Cor- vina, is also being grown, alongside local varieties, Malbec and Tor- rontés. The Boscaini family also have a research department and an experimental vineyard from where 48 local varieties that are not grown commercially are being cultivated. One grape that dates back to an- tiquity that Sandro has brought back into commercial production is the Oseleta, used in the Brolo Cam- pofiorin that was tasted during the event, and is now growing 12 hec- tares of this vine. For more information about Masi Agricola please visit www.masi.it/ eng/company/family. HSBC Bank Malta RBWM Head Paul Steel (first right) together with (from left) Playmobil Malta CEO Matthias Fauser, Simonds Farsons Cisk CEO Norman Aquilina, Island Hotels Group CEO Winston J. Zahra, and Lufthansa Technik CEO Stephen Drewes leading an inter-company panel discussion on leadership