M’lore: Malaika Multi-Brand Retail Store to open Showroom at Tokkottu on Mar 16

By Rons Bantwal
Bellevision Media Network

Mangalore, 11 Mar 2014: The Mumbai-based Malaika Multi-Brand Retail Store that is the sister concern of Malaika Group which has been in business since over 3 decades in metro will be opening its showroom at Tokkottu, here on Sunday March 16 at 11.00am.

 

Malaika Multi-Brand Retail Store had opened its first showroom in Hampankatta and later at B C Road in Bantwal.  It’s their second showroom at Tokkottu, here.  Besides the showroom, Malaika Silk Saris Emporium, readymade garments outlet and office of Malaika Multi-State Credit Society will also be opened.

 

The state health minister U T Khader will inaugurate the new showroom at R E B Commercial Complex, opposite Tokkottu bus stand, at the limits of Ullal town panchayat, here on Sunday March 16 at 11.00am.

 

 

Mangalore diocese south deanery vicar Fr Gregory D’Souza will bless the new premises. Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel will be the chief guest of the occasion. Mangalore south MLA J R Lobo will inaugurate Malaika Silk Saris Emporium.

 

Permannoor – St Sebastian parish priest Fr John Baptist Saldanha will grace the occasion. Ullal town councilor Girija M will inaugurate Malaika Credit Society.

 

Ullal – Sayyed Mohammed Sharif Ul Madani Darga chairman U S Hamza Haji, Ullal – Chirumba Bhagavati temple chief trustee Chandrahas Ullal, Bantwal Bar Association former president advocate Menala Ashwanikumar Rai will be the guests of honor.

 

It’s significant that Videocon Industries Limited presented a Mercedes car to Malaika Group chairman Gilbert Baptist during September 2013, for expanding network of showrooms in the metro and Dakshina Kannada district, efficiency in managing sales outlets and customer satisfaction.

 

Malaika showroom will offer multi-brand products at affordable rates with assured free gifts.  It will also offer their own product Yasoma brand as special gifts, for purchases of their multi-branded products such as LG, Samsung, Haier, HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, Toshiba, Compac, MSI, Panasonic, Sharp, Canon, Philips, Electrolux, Videocon, Fuji, Sony, HCL, Lenova etc on discounted rates.

 

Malaika Multi-State Credit Society will offer 12 percent interest rate to senior citizens and 11.50 percent to others.  An additional of 0.5 percent will be offered for annual deposit of Rs 10 lac and above.  The loans will be offered for buying household appliances, gold and loan against jewellery.  The senior manager Felix Veigas Modankap and Malaika Credit Society Tokkottu branch manager Yashwant Ullal urged the customers to avail introductory offer to get maximum discounts on household appliances.

 

Malaika Group chairman Gilbert Baptist, senior manager – sales and marketing Felix Veigas and Eshwar Ucchil were present at the media conference.

 

About Malaika Group founder Gilbert Baptist

Gilbert is the son of Faustine Baptistand Agnes Veigas coup, residents of Shamboor, near Panemangalore in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka.  Malaika Group is the brainchild of Gilbert who is the chairman and managing director of Mumbai-based Malaika Appliances Private Limited and Malaika Co-operative Credit Society Limited.  MalaikaGroup also manufactures its own brand of Yasoma RO – water purifier drinking water system, induction cook-top and mixer grinder that is also sold at their outlets in Mangalore and Bantwal at very competitive rates.

 

Gilbert completed diploma in electrical engineering at KPT, Mangalore during 1982 after completing II PUC in science at SVS College, Bantwal.  He migrated to Mumbai in search of better prospects and was employed in Kirloskar Cummins Limited as sales and servicing engineer during 1983.  He had a vision to open a small scale industry that took him back to Mumbai, where he set up an electronic components manufacturing unit at Sakinaka, Powai, Andheri (East).  He found success in entrepreneurship by supplying electronic components to renowned companies including as Sony, Orson, Videocon, Onida and Sharp.  Malaika has carved a niche in household appliances across Mumbai.

 

Gilbert is married to Marceline G Baptist who is also a director in Malaika Group and they have three daughters – Malaika, Sonica and Yashica.  The family is settled in Mira Road, a mini Mangalore town in Mumbai.  The Group is committed to the welfare of senior citizens who are shareholders of Malaika Co-operative Credit Society and also their children by organizing annual get-together, recognizing their talents.  He has no greed for publicity and is simple and humble person.