Industries Chamber launches CNCI Achiever Awards 2026

CNCI Chairman Pradeep Kahawalage welcomes gathering	Chief guest Senior Professor Pathmalal M. Manage

The Ceylon National Chamber of Industries (CNCI) had its official launch and media briefing of CNCI Achiever Awards 2026 for industrial excellence recently, at Hotel Taj Samudra Colombo. 

This year’s awards ceremony will be held for the 25th consecutive time.

The Achiever Awards scheme has been initiated by the CNCI to promote industrial growth in the country by recognising and rewarding those industrialists who excel well in their businesses. 

The Achiever Awards scheme is highly popular among the industrial sector and is considered a valuable opportunity for all industrialists of Extra Large, Large, Medium, Small and Micro Categories to be contested at provincial and national levels.  

The CNCI Achiever Awards competition is open for state-owned organisations to compete under the Government Sector Category.

CNCI Chairman Pradeep Kahawalage while welcoming the gathering said that the CNCI Achiever Awards event has been recognised in the corporate manufacturing and service sectors as a benchmark of industrial excellence and the main objective of granting these grand awards is to recognise the deserving industries in Sri Lanka.

Addressing the gathering, the chief guest of the event, University of Sri Jayewardenepura Vice Chancellor Senior Professor Pathmalal M. Manage said that the contestant companies would be evaluated based on their performance in the areas of quality standards, productivity, corporate plan, research and development, employee benefits, labour relations, etc. while paying concerns over the social and environmental obligations and to encourage these industries to reach further heights. Also, he emphasised on the unwavering commitment of the CNCI for safeguarding the industries.

CNCI Deputy Chairman and Achiever Awards Judging Chairman Amila Sugathapala highlighted that the applications for the CNCI Achiever Awards are subjected to a stringent evaluation procedure.  Initially, the applications received are scrutinised by an external audit team and an internal panel of judges will evaluate the applications based on their performances. Finally, the external panel of judges, headed by University of Sri Jayewardenepura Vice Chancellor, will scrutinise the whole process/marks obtained by each company and then final decision will be made.

CNCI Secretary General Major General Samantha Wickramasena (Retired) delivered the vote of thanks.

Achiever Awards applications are available at the CNCI Secretariat, No. 20, Galle Face Court 2, Colombo 3 or they can be downloaded from www.cnci.lk.