Category: General Services

Aug 24, 2011 (LBO) – Overseas Realty (Ceylon) Ltd, a unit of Singapore’s Shing Kwan group, is on the lookout for fresh projects as a multi tower residential development in Sri Lanka’s capital enters new phase, an official said. The group is now focusing on ‘Havelock City’ an 8-tower project in which two towers of […]

Aug 17, 2011 (LBO) – Residents in Sri Lanka could enroll as fulltime students of University of Ballarat in Australia through a study centre in Colombo under an education service deliver structure implemented for the first time in the island, officials said. The Sri Lanka centre is run by the Australian Technical and Management College […]

Aug 17, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is on track to get about ten foreign universities under an initiative to expand tertiary education with Bangkok based Asian Institute Technology among them, an official said. The AIT is expected to set up a campus in Hambantota in Southern Sri Lanka, higher education ministry secretary Sunil Jayantha […]

Aug 12, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Hemas group is expanding its healthcare business with land bought in Battaramulla to build a new hospital near the island’s capital, group chief executive Husein Esufally said. “An expansion plan to add two more hospitals to the chain is well underway and we have been successful in securing […]

July 31, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Smart Media, an annual report publishing consultancy has won gold at an international competition coming within the top two in the world, while its local and foreign clients have also won 39 awards. “Readers would like to see annual reports saying something useful; and saying it in a […]

July 30, 2011 (LBO) – Dubai-based Flemingo International, which has won a concession to operate a second duty free shop in Sri Lanka’s main international airport, is aiming at a 55 million dollar annual market, an official said. Better pricing and availability of more brands can make passengers spend more in Colombo and prevent them […]

July 25, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Laugfs group has started an educational facility with Australia’s University of Canberra to offer courses on customs, border management, tax and excise administration, officials said. LAUGFS Australia Higher Education Services, a unit of the Laugfs group has tied up up with Centre for Customs and Excise Studies (CCES) […]

July 15, 2011 (LBO) – Lanka Market Research Bureau (Pvt) Ltd (LMRB) said it has appointed Himalee Madurasinghe, former second-in-command and a 14-year veteran at the firm as its chief executive. LMRB started 1981 as the first independent market research consultancy in Sri Lanka. It is affiliated to market research firms, IMRB International and Kantar […]

July 13, 2011 (LBO) – A view that Sri Lanka’s information technology and business process outsourcing industry needs only workers who are fluent in English is a “fallacy” the head of a firm catering to the European market said. Mano Sekeram, chief executive of Eurocentre, a software engineering firm said, in most countries with which […]

July 11, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lankan fashion retailer ODEL has appointed an international retail sales specialist William R Pinkston, III, as its Chief Operating Officer, a statement said. In his career, Pinkston has specialised in store operations, expense reduction and control, product and visual merchandising, brand development, store concept design and project management for […]

July 10, 2011 (LBO) – Singer Sri Lanka, a consumer durables firm, a top retailer of televisions, refrigerators and sewing machines says sales in the former war-torn north and east of the country has doubled since a 30-year war ended two years ago. “Now, North-east is giving 6.5 percent percent of the sales,” chief executive […]

June 24, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state water supply agency is unable to get revenue for one third of its production and the control of “excessive leakages” will improve productivity and allow it to repay loans, a finance ministry report said. The Water Board is expanding supply especially in the north and east after […]