Category: General Services

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 […]

AMARA, June 19, 2011 (AFP) – Thirty Sri Lankan construction workers in southern Iraq have been on a five-day hunger strike because they have not been paid for the past two years by their Iraqi employers, the labourers said Sunday. Thousands of South Asian workers are employed in menial jobs in oil-rich Iraq, many working […]

June 19, 2011 (LBO) – Profits of Sri Lanka’s state media enterprise rose in 2010, with profits of Independent Television Network (ITN) television station rising 66 percent to 308 million rupees, a finance ministry report said. Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, a state radio station had posted up profits of 42. 6 million rupees, up from […]

June 09, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka was elected as a deputy member of the International Labour Organisation™s (ILO) governing body during the 100th International Labour Conference now underway in Geneva, Switzerland. The ILO governing body includes 56 regular and 66 deputy members representing the three groups that make up the ILO™s membership; governments, employers […]

June 07, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Richard Pieris group wants to cash in on the post-war consumer spending boom by rapidly expanding its chain of ‘Arpico’ supermarkets, a senior official said. The firm’s profits nearly doubled to 2. 1 billion rupees in 2010 due to higher returns from core business areas, plantations, retail and […]

June 04, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s John Keells Holdings is expanding its property business with the acquisition of a six-acre site in a suburb on a key road to the international airport north of the capital Colombo. The conglomerate said it wants to expand its land bank by acquiring sites with a “high development […]

June 03, 2011 (LBO) – CT Land Development, owners of the Majestic City shopping mall in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo is building three cinemas on its fifth floor which is now vacant, chairman R Selvaskandan has said. Income tax saw a reversal of 25 million rupees compared to a charge of 46 million rupees a […]