Category: General Services

June 02, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Richard Pieris and Company said it plans to expand its network of ‘Arpico’ shopping malls in its retail business which is considered the group’s main engine of growth. Chairman and chief executive Sena Yaddehige said the retail sector has been one of the most “growth-oriented” arms of the […]

June 01, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan public will get 100 seats but VIPs will get 400 seats at a India film awards venue in the island’s capital, officials said, though hundreds of millions of rupees of public money is being spent, including to spruce up the venue. The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards […]

June 01, 2010 (LBO) – Korean electronics maker Samsung said it was eyeing a 30 percent share in Sri Lanka’s growing flat panel television market with an intensified marketing drive as the overall domestic market is also set for higher growth. Samsung West Asia chief JungSoo Shin said his firm had market leadership status for […]

May 19, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Overseas Realty Ceylon, a unit of Singapore’s Shing Kwan group, is pushing ahead with Colombo’s largest property project amid renewed buying interest in apartments after the end of a 30-year war. Overseas Realty owns Colombo’s World Trade Centre building which houses the Colombo Stock Exchange and is jointly […]

May 14, 2010 (LBO) – Unethical practices from the top find its way to the bottom of organizations, and picking the right talent was also important since human decisions can always override regulations, a senior business executive said. However in some cases employees sometimes bend rules when being pressurized by the top management to make […]

May 06, 2010 (LBO) – Students of the science faculty of Sri Lanka’s Colombo University and the Rotaract Club have teamed up to bring students closer to the island’s corporate sector. The organizers say cubicles with lighting and fans and refreshment will be provided for company representative to interview undergraduates. Waiting rooms will have projectors […]

May 04, 2010 (LBO) – Unilever Sri Lanka (USL) has launched a new brand of tea in the island aiming to increase the multinational’s market share of branded teas that carry higher margins, officials said. The new brand, Brooke Bond Ceylonta, is expected to increase local market share for Unilever branded teas by 1.0 to […]

May 04, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan advertising agency Triad said it has sued the organizers of an ad awards scheme for 100 million rupees alleging the contest was a ‘scam’ subject to manipulation. Other defendants include members of the Chillies 2010 organizing committee headed by Rohan Rajaratnam. The Chillies was created by the advertising […]

Apr 29, 2010 (LBO) – Shree FM, a radio station run by Sri Lanka’s the E A P Edirisinghe group, has won a top US broadcasting award for a community service program which helped people in remote areas, the broadcaster said. NAB is the highest award presented to non-US radio and television stations to recognize […]

KUALA LUMPUR, April 29, 2010 (AFP) – Middle East and Asian nations, which draw millions of foreign domestic workers, have failed to take action to tackle widespread abuse of the vulnerable women, Human Rights Watch said. “The reforms undertaken by Middle Eastern and Asian governments fall far short of the minimum protections needed to tackle […]

Apr 20, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will host an annual Indian film awards in Colombo in June drawing Bollywood stars to the country and opening opportunities for films to be shot on location in the former war-torn island industry officials said. A business forum, fashion show, celebrity cricket match, world premiers of upcoming Indian […]

Apr 18, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state postal services lost 2. 4 billion rupees in 2009 up from 2.1 billion rupees in 2008 while the mail use has stagnated at 21 letters per inhabitant, official data showed. In 2007 the postal services lost 2. 8 billion rupees but prices were raised in the middle […]