(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Sri Lanka’s most customer-friendly bank HNB PLC has once again partnered with an extensive portfolio of leading retailers across the island to provide its loyal debit and credit cardholders with exclusive discounts and valuable benefits, while continuing to support the community.
Partnering a wide range of popular brands – from fine dining, jewelry, auto care, lifestyle merchants online, education and even hospitals – HNB is offering customers discounts up to 50% as well as convenient interest-free instalment plans for up to 24 months.
“Every year we seek to ensure that our cardholders get the best possible deals in the market. Given that the 2020 was an especially challenging time for all of us, we redoubled our efforts to partner with an even wider range of merchants and healthcare providers, so that we could provide as much support to our customers as possible,” HNB Head of Cards, GauthamiNiranjan expressed.
A notable inclusion in this year’s partnerships are leading hospitals, which are offering HNB cardholders up to 25% on selected healthcare packages and treatments. Customers can also make use of interest-free instalment payment plans for medical expenses at leading hospitals, including Lanka, Delmon, Asiri, Kings, Durdans, Nawaloka, Ninewells, Hemas and COVID-19 Intermediate Care Centers at select hospitals.
Additionally, customers also have the option of transferring their credit card balance from other banks to HNB for a hassle-free instalment plan with zero documentation requirements, all for a nominal handling fee and bundled with convenient instalment payment options, with just a call to the 24×7 Contact Centre on 0112462462.
Moreover, HNB cardholders will also be entitled to discounts of up to 25% when purchasing daily essentials from leading supermarkets such as Cargills Food City, Glomark, Keells and Arpico Supercentres across the island until April 2021.
Customers shopping at Cargills will be offered an additional 10% discount on ‘Best Buy’ products for bills above Rs. 2,500 each Monday, while Keells will offer a 10% discount on bills above Rs. 3,500 every Tuesday from 05pm to 08pm. Credit cardholders can also make use of a flat 25% off on selected fresh fruits, vegetables and seafood during the weekend at Arpico Supercentres & Daily outlets, while Glomark will offer Credit & Debit cardholders discounts of 20% and 10% respectively on bills above Rs.4,000 every Friday.
Additionally, fine dining enthusiasts can avail themselves of discounts of up to 25% from HNB’s fine dining partners, which include restaurants at Taj Samudra and Galle Face Hotel, Maharaja Palace, &Co Pub and Kitchen, Asylum, PappaRich, Mango Tree, Raja Bojun, Barista, Caramel Pumpkin, Jade Restaurants and many more. Mexican food lovers will also be offered a Buy 1 Get 1 Free option at Taco Bell every second Tuesday of the month, while pizza lovers will be offered a free Large Pan Pizza when they order the same every third Wednesday of the month, exclusively from Pizza Hut.
Catering to the growing online customer base, HNB has partnered with online shopping platforms PickMe Market, Daraz Saturdays, Wasi.lk, Lassana.com. giftbasket.lk, buyabans.com, glomark.lk and Atlas-Myshop to offer discounts of up to 25% and easy instalment payment options for selected items.
Cardholders can renew and obtain insurance covers at insureme.lk with a 10% discount on basic premiums for life and motor insurance. Parents and students can also settle their fees via myfees.lk, with HNB offering interest-free instalment plans for several leading educational institutes as well.
Notably, tech-savvy customers will receive a complimentary gift valued at Rs. 10,000 for every iPad, iMac, iPhone and MacBook from FutureWorld. Additionally, fitness enthusiasts are entitled to a flat 15% discount at Quantum Fitness and an interestfree instalment plan for up to 24 months.
Photography aficionados can use discounts of up to 15% on HNB credit cards for selected camera accessories at Cameralk. Cardholders are also entitled to discounts of up to 30% and zero-interest instalment plans up to 12 months when shopping at Abans, Damro, Dinapala, Hunters, Softlogic, Singer, Sinhagiri, Thilakawardena, Arpico Furniture and Seetha Holdings.
Similarly, jewelry lovers are entitled to discounts of up to 50% at leading jewelry partners such as Premadasa Jewellery, MallikaHemachandra, Ravi Jewellers, PLMTT, MuthukaruppanChettiar, Swarnamahal, Vogue Jewellers, Raja Jewellers and Lalitha Jewellers.
Meanwhile, HNB’s vehicle buffs are offered discounts of up to 50% and selected services from Ideal First Choice, and up to 10% off for lubricant services and original spare parts for repairs (for European vehicles) at the Merc Shop respectively. Additionally, BMW lovers can make use of a 5% discount on the total bill, after-sales services, repairs, original accessories and BMW lifestyle merchandise at Prestige Automobile and Auto Bavaria.
With 252 customer centres across the country, HNB is one of Sri Lanka’s largest, most technologically innovative banks having won local and global recognition for its efforts to drive forward a new paradigm in digital banking. Over the recent past, the bank was ranked among the World Top 1,000 Banks list compiled by the prestigious UK-based Banker Magazine. HNB has a national rating of AA- (lka) by Fitch Ratings (Lanka) Ltd.
HNB was also declared Best Sub-Custodian Bank in Sri Lanka at the Global Finance Awards 2020. The bank further won the Award for the Best Retail Bank in Sri Lanka for the 11th time at the Asian Banker Awards 2020, in recognition of its sustainable growth and continuous improvements in processes, products and services amidst a challenging macroeconomic environment.
