Category: In Pictures
Land an investment tool: Creates greater appeal for affluent
Land has been a commodity that has been looked upon as an investment for generations. The general understanding is to obtain land for housing or commercial purposes. However, land purely as a tool of investment has increasingly become an area of interest. The annual increment of land value every year is stipulated to be around […]
Central Environment Authority awards Melting Point Certification to ODEL
The Central Environment Authority (CEA) recently awarded ODEL PLC Sri Lanka the ‘Melting Point Certification’ as a certified partner of its aluminum upcycling project. The latest project aims to increase awareness about environmental pollution and the importance of recycling through the production of handmade upcycled aluminum products available for sale at all ODEL outlets. The […]
MillionSpaces takes centre-stage at SLASSCOM’s Innovation Awards 2019
MillionSpaces, an online marketplace where users discover and book unique spaces and venues for various events, was bestowed with the 1st Runner-Up for the highly-coveted ‘Best Disruptor Award’ at the annual ‘Innovation Awards and Gala 2019’, hosted by SLASSCOM at the Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo recently. The awards recognize and celebrate innovators across a range of […]
Outlook 2020 Forum to feature interactive panel discussion
The Chamber Academy will host the Ceylon Chamber’s annual Economic Outlook forum for 2020 on 10 February. The event serves as a good opportunity for the private sector to understand the new policy direction of the government and witness the new Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Deshamanya Professor W.D. Lakshman address the […]
Teejay posts 9-month PBT of Rs2.4bn on sales of Rs26.3bn
Teejay Lanka PLC has reported profit before tax of Rs 2.364 billion at Group level for the nine months ending 31st December 2019, an improvement of 56% over the corresponding period of the previous year. Sales for the period grew by 15% to Rs 26.3 billion the Company said, with revenue for the 3rd quarter […]
Mobitel & Thuru’s reforestation project shortlisted at GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2020
Mobitel and Thuru’s joint project – ‘Reforestation through Technology’ – has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Mobile Innovation for Climate Action award’ at GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2020, popularly known as the GLOMO Awards, scheduled to be held in Barcelona in February 2020, where winners will be announced. This recognition is yet another feather in the cap […]
Hikka Tranz, Plasticcycle and MEPA launch projects to preserve reef
Hikka Tranz by Cinnamon (Hikka Tranz) together with the Marine Environmental Protection Authority (MEPA) and Plasticcycle – the Social Entrepreneurship project of John Keells Group, launched an initiative on the 30th of January 2020 to maintain a stretch of beach along the resort premises. This initiative looks towards the placement of specially designed plastic waste […]
President felicitates SriLankan Airlines crew for bringing back SL students
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa commended the SriLankan Airlines crew who flew to Wuhan, the epicenter of coronavirus to bring back Sri Lankan students. The crew joined a luncheon hosted by the President at the Presidential Secretariat recently. Led by the Chairman of the Airline Ashoka Pathirage, Board of Directors, engineers and pilots and the crew who […]
DFCC Bank wins Top Employer award at CIMA annual conference
Consistently winning recognition and rewards for its visionary and progressive HR strategies, DFCC Bank was recognized yet again as one of the ‘Top 20 Employers in Sri Lanka’, employing the highest number of Chartered Institute of Management Accountant (CIMA)Sri Lanka members in their organization. The gala ceremony was held recently as part of the CIMA […]
Uber Eats to launch in third Sri Lankan city – Negombo
Uber Eats, one of the world’s leading food delivery networks, will soon launch its operations in its third Sri Lankan city – Negombo. With a global presence in more than 500 cities across the world, UberEats has grown and expanded to be a market leader in Sri Lanka, where it collaborates with many delivery and […]
Star Garment Group becomes Sri Lanka’s largest carbon neutral entity
Star Garment Group, a leading global manufacturing company, announced that it has been certified as CarbonNeutral® by The Sustainable Future Group (SFG), Sri Lanka’s foremost sustainability verification and certification body. This makes Star both the largest carbon neutral company in Sri Lanka, and the only one in the apparel sector to have its 14 facilities […]