Gold rush at Cash Plus |21 July 2014

Reading the advertising poster one may be of the impression that Cash Plus, the Seychelles’ branch of the money changer business locally owned by Pillay R Group, is inviting you to buy gold. But what if the company is offering you the precious metal itself, and for free?

The offer may seem to be untrue or unrealistic but this is exactly what Cash Plus is doing. For any sum of money transferred abroad through Dubai based XPRESS MONEY from any Cash Plus location, you enter a draw to win more than R3,000 worth of gold!

The promotion has been going on since last year when Cash Plus offered cash prizes to the winners. This year however, they have decided to go for gold as explained by Ramu Pillay, the chairman of Pillay R Group.

“If you offer any sum of money to someone, he or she can go on and spend it immediately.  Whereas gold is there to stay and its value keeps on climbing,” said Mr Pillay.

The 17 winners of this year’s promotion which ran from March to June, received their piece of gold during a short reception at the Asian Fusion Restaurant at Au Cap on Saturday evening.

François Rose, managing director (MD) of Cash Plus, took the opportunity to thank his customers for their loyalty and called on them to stay with Cash Plus as he feels that they “are doing a good job”. He has also promised more promotions in the future, which he feels will attract more clients.

Mr Rose has explained that with their state-of-the-art transfer systems, money transfer to any part of the world is made to be simple, fast, safe and cheap, with the receiver collecting all the cash sent and having nothing to spend.

With the only branch in Africa which has to date offered this promotion, Cash Plus Seychelles has been declared the top performing agent in the region for the last two years by XPRESS MONEY. As reward for this accomplishment, a proud Mr Pillay on Saturday received a trophy from the cluster director of XPRESS MONEY, Amit Shrimali, who had flown in from Dubai especially for the occasion.

To date, Cash Plus has seven branches in Seychelles – at the Olivier Maradan Building in Victoria, Docklands, Beau Vallon, Grand Anse, Baie Sainte Anne and Côte d’Or on Praslin and La Passe on La Digue.