Category: Industry
‘s Allianz unit grows in 2012
Mar 06, 2013 9LBO) – Allianz Lanka, a unit of Germany’s Allianz insurance group said gross written premium in its life business grew 51 percent to 532 million rupees in 2012 and non-life premiums totaled 1,522 million rupees.Its life fund had grown 107 percent and policyholders given a credit (dividend) of 8.5 percent. Allianz said […]
Edu Fair
Mar 06, 2013 (LBO) – An education fair with the participation of institutions from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu as well as a consultancy has opened in Sri Lanka’s Jaffna city, India’s High Commission (embassy) in Colombo said.The Indian Education Fair-2013 had been inaugurated by G A Chandrasiri, the Governor of […]
Road Finance
Mar 06, 2013 (LBO) – A 27 kilometre stretch of a in Sri Lanka’s central hills running from Haputale, Boralanda will built by a domestic contractor with finance from Hatton National Bank, the state information office said.The cabinet of ministers had approved a proposal to build the road with bank finance under a scheme where […]
Sri Lanka Finlays to target Middle East emigrants
Mar 05, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s James Finlays Colombo Plc, a key exporter of tea to the Middle East said it would make more efforts to market its brands to migrant communities from the region in Europe, North America and Australasia. James Finlays said 84 percent of its tea exports were in consume packs […]
Sri Lanka bans ethanol imports
Mar 05, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has banned the import of ethanol from March 01, using import and export control laws, a notice on the website of the customs office said.The customs office said un-denatured ethyl alcohol of 80 percent strength and denatured spirits have been prohibited. Last year Sri Lanka expropriated two sugar […]
Blocked Sri Lanka tea pouring in to Iraq: trade ministry
Mar 05, 2013 (LBO) – Shipments of Sri Lanka tea detained at the Iraqi border have been allowed into the country from March 04, two weeks after a meeting between ministers of the two countries, the commerce ministry said. The trade ministry said Sri Lanka’s Anverally & Sons (Pvt) Ltd, Georgre Stuart Teas (Pvt) Ltd, […]
Niche Builder
Mar 05, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard Plc, a unit of Japan’s Onomichi Dockyard Co. Ltd, said profits grew 28 percent to 1.9 billion rupees helped by new buildings, amid tough conditions for ship repairs. In the December quarter the group reported earnings of 434 million rupees, up 7.9 percent from a year […]
Rail Loan
Mar 05, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will get US8 million dollars in loans from China to build 26.75 kilometres of rail track from Matara to Beliatta in the South of the island, the finance ministry said. The Exim Bank of China will provide 200 million US dollars under an agreement signed on February 18 […]
IT Hub
Mar 04, 2013 (LBO) – Volume, a UK-based digital marketing applications firm that makes web and mobile applications has set up a technology hub in Sri Lanka, which they hope to grow to serve markets in multiple time zones, officials said.“Our office in Colombo will become an important regional hub for our business,” Chris Sykes, […]
Growth Industry
Mar 04, 2013 (LBO) – The headcount of Sri Lanka’s major export software and outsourcing firms have grown 14 to 21 percent a year during the past three years, according to a salary and benefits survey among its members, an industry association said. A 2010 report, The ICT Export Value Survey 2010, commissioned by Sri […]
Sri Lanka Mattala flights by Air Arabia
Mar 02, 2013 (LBO) – Air Arabia, a UAE based budget carrier will launch twice weekly flights to Sri Lanka’s second international airport in Mattala from March 18, a media report said.It will start flights between Sharjah and Mattala, Arabian Business, a Middle Eastern business news portal said. “Just a few months after our inception […]
Nothing There
Mar 01, 2013 (LBO) – Cairn Lanka (Pvt) Ltd has not found any oil in its fourth exploration well, its parent company said in a stock exchange filing.Cairn India said the well found “thick high quality re servoir sands, which were not hydrocarbon bearing,” and it was plugged and abandoned. The data from the well […]