Onsite Seminar VII

It’s Thursday morning: Election Day in Bangalore, tired faces are displacing heavy-looking luggage pieces in the hotel lobby and waiting for the bus to be picked up for a visit to Swissnex. In order to keep spirits high, one of our valuable PR Team members with a natural born showman talent, Sandro Bernasconi, has delighted our delegation with an astonishing performance of “Con te partirò” by Andrea Bocelli: goose bumps guaranteed! So we arrived at Swissnex well awake and with a bright smile on our lips.

The trip to Swissnex was relatively short, as Election Day is experienced as some kind of regional holiday, where no alcohol is sold and the traffic decreases to Swiss levels because all the businesses are closed. This fact is the best way to prove the good relationships Focus India and Swissnex are sharing, as they opened up just to meet us and have a very interesting presentation about their function as entry point for adventurous Swiss entrepreneurs. We also had the chance to meet one of the successful business man, who has developed a social media network for communication amongst peer groups, which is a bit more formal as Whatsapp and Facebook might be.

From there we went for lunch to a very fancy, vegetarian restaurant, which managed to decorate their walls with spices of all kind and colors. Being the only customers in the place, all the servants would spoil us with an endless refill of unknown, but delicious Indian tastes. Some very courageous men even tried a bite of the spicy “green chili”, fortunately with no major side effects.

Afterwards we got on our way towards the airport for the next presentation.  For some unexplainable reason, we could feel the magic of Focus India creating a very positive mood within our travelling delegation.

The presentation at the Bengaluru Airport started with a kind “Grüezi”, and was held by Swiss managing director Daniel Bircher. In short, he showed us the fast and incredible development of the Indian air business. The Bengaluru Airport is seen as a role model for all other growing Indian airports. Along to its growth, there goes the Nuance Group, taking care of all the concessions for commercial use within the airport. Their growth has been amazing as well. Their commitment to social responsibility, giving work to over 20’000 people in the rural area is impressive too.

After the presentations, we would round up our visit with a coffee together with the management team inside the airport facilities. It was another incredible Focus India, and we’re going for more!