Sri Lanka Finlays unit reveals gains from commodities crash
Mar 22, 2010 (LBO) - Buying tea for stock during the commodities crash in the last quarter of 2008 helped boost profits at Finlays Colombo group last year, the …
Mar 22, 2010 (LBO) - Buying tea for stock during the commodities crash in the last quarter of 2008 helped boost profits at Finlays Colombo group last year, the …
Mar 19, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's poultry industry has been squeezed by taxes on imported maize which pushed feed costs up and price controls on processed …
Mar 19, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's tea industry expects a short 'Western quality season' this year with teas that had the desired quality picking up in price at …
Mar 12, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lankan tea prices rose at this week's auction as quality improved and crops coming down owing to drought, brokers said. Prices of some …
Mar 09, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's tea industry, a top foreign exchange earner, is still starved of refunds from a government tax on exports, despite rival …
Mar 08, 2010 (LBO) - Drought and higher wages pushed Sri Lanka's Talawakelle Tea Estates into the red last year, its first loss, although a recovery in crop …
Mar 04, 2010 (LBO) - Prices of Sri Lankan teas grown at higher elevations mainly by regional plantations companies recovered at this week's Colombo auctions as …
Feb 26, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lankan tea prices at the Colombo auctions fell for the second week running this week on bigger volumes and lower quality, although …
Feb 24, 2010 (LBO) - A United Nations agricultural development agency said it will give Sri Lanka a loan of 25 million dollars to help small holder farmers …
Feb 23, 2010 (LBO) - Production of tea, Sri Lanka's main export crop, showed a return to normal levels in January as the industry recovered from the effects of …
Feb 19, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan tea prices eased at the Colombo auctions this week but are still at record highs being much higher than last year both in …
Feb 18, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan coconut products exporter Coco Lanka has said it plans to expand and is holding talks with companies it had identified …
Feb 12, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has asked Russia, the biggest importer of Ceylon tea, to reduce import duty on value-added tea exports, a senior minister …
Feb 11, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s Kelani Valley Plantations said higher tea and rubber crops and prices in the December quarter had helped reduce losses …
Feb 06, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s Tea Board has chosen MTI Consulting, a management consultancy, to develop a strategy to promote Ceylon tea, the …
Feb 05, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has wrapped up a deal to get a 16 million dollar loan from the OPEC Fund for International Development for an irrigation project …
Feb 05, 2010 (LBO) – Heavy rains in some of Sri Lanka™s tea growing regions have delayed the onset of the quality season when plantations companies get …
Feb 05, 2010 (LBO) - A Sri Lanka state agency is to be given money to buy 140,000 metric tonnes of paddy produced in the upcoming main cultivation season to …
Feb 03, 2010 (LBO) –Sri Lanka™s Hayleys conglomerate is building a factory in the former war zone in the east to increase exports of pickled gherkins …
Feb 02, 2010 (LBO) – High tea prices helped Sri Lanka's Horana Plantations to make a profit of 75 million rupees in the December, according to accounts …