Team Spirit

I was visiting some exhibition on construction and mining in Bangalore a few years back and came across a German Company Wirtgen. I knew and had heard about Wirtgen but never knew they had a sales and service setup in India by the name of  Wirtgen India Pvt Ltd. Wirtgen GmbH, a world leader in manufacturing Road Construction and Mining Equipment, manufactures a wide range of Cold Milling Machines, Cold Recyclers, Soil Stabilizers, Hot Recyclers, Surface Miners, Slipform Concrete Pavers and Mobile Cold Recycling Mixing Plant. They are a big buyer of Conical Bits and were sourcing there requirements mostly from their parent company in Germany. I had the opportunity to meet one of there senior guys, Pankaj Kumar. Pankaj a north India was speaking fluent Bengali which surprised me. Fortunately being born and brought up in West Bengal and having done my schooling at Ramakrishna Mission I also speak, write and read Bengali. So we struck a good rapport. We kept discussing their requirements for Conical Bits. Pankaj invited me to there sales and service warehouse in Bangalore. I reached there facility on the scheduled time and date. It was a very pleasant welcome and the major agenda was supply of Brazed Conical Bit for wirtgen machines in India. Wirtgen that point of time had almost 50 machines working in India. After our meeting we went for lunch in there canteen and were joined by the core team including the Manging Director. There were people from all across the country including Kashmir and also a sardarji. What was surprising there to me was all of these guys were speaking fluent Bengali and that too in the state of Karnataka. Later on I came to know this whole group has been working together for last many years in a different company and then joined here in mass with the managing Director and there MD happened to be a Bengali guy and rest of the team picked up the language for the leader. What a team spirit!