By Dominick Rodrigues
Mumbai: Canara bank organized a mega retail expo camp comprising three expos at different venues here recently that witnessed loans being sanctioned amounting to Rs 224.30 crores. The expo covered players across industries including leading and renowned builders and developers, major automobile dealers and premier educational institutions in and around Mumbai.
The dignitaries at the expo included R P Jaiswal, General Manager, Retail Asset and Marketing, Head office – Bangalore, P Santosh, Chief General Manager – Mumbai Circle, Manoj Kumar Das, Deputy General Manager, Regional office-I, Pravin Kabra, Deputy General Manager – Regional office II, and Smt. K B Geetha, Deputy General Manager , Regional office –Thane.
The retailers present at the expo displayed salient features of their products through their stalls. Along with the expo, Canara Bank also associated with Nanavati Hospital to provide free health check-up to the attendees of the expo. The bank followed all the COVID-19 precautionary norms like thermal scanning at the entrance, provision of masks and sanitization stations, strict social distancing protocol, and staggered entry.
Widely known for customer centricity, Canara Bank was founded by Shri Ammembal Subba Rao Pai, a great visionary and philanthropist, in July 1906, at Mangaluru, then a small port town in Karnataka. Today, Canara Bank is the fourth-largest public sector bank in the country after its amalgamation with Syndicate Bank in April 2020, and is presently functioning with 10,498 Branches, and 13,023 ATMs.
