Maxxis Tyres Dealer Convention & Awards Night 2016 was held at Waters Edge recently where Ravindra Lanka Auto Service (Pvt.) Ltd being awarded the 2016 winner. From left: Tim Tsai of Maxxis International Sales Department, Tyre House Group Group D

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Sri Lanka held its inaugural Talking Point programme for the new year titled ‘Insights for Marketing in 2017’ in January at the Union Ballroom, Hilton Colombo Residences.

Mindshare Sri Lanka has yet again proved its place as the undisputed market leader in the field of communications by bagging the Agency of the Year Gold Award 

REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee declined for a fifth straight session yesterday as offshore investors sold government securities amid concerns over further depreciation in the local currency, dealers said.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced it will keep 71 branches open for business on Friday, a Public and Bank holiday to mark the Mahasivarathri festival.

Union Bank reopened its Negombo branch with a new outlook and an enhanced ambience recently in line with the bank’s strategic focus to deliver a redefined banking experience to its clients.   

The debate on the legitimacy of the privately-owned medical faculty at the South Asian Institute of Technology and Management

At the heart of digital currency is a powerful, decentralized technology that is now revolutionizing the way people around the world exchange value. 

A group of Sri Lankan ICT companies were able to make a strong impact at the B2B meetings held with 12 key Japanese ICT companies in Tokyo recently. 

As Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) was aiming towards instigating the construction of a new state-of-the-art Internet data centre (iDC) that would enhance the provision of a secure and reliable data hosting facility to Sri Lanka, the Uptime Institute had rec

REUTERS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the United States yesterday to keep an open mind on admitting skilled Indian workers, in comments that pushed back against Republican President Donald Trump’s “America First” rhetoric on j

Variety.com:  YouTube is killing one of its more obstrusive ad formats: The Google-owned video service said Friday that it was going to phase out unskippable 30-second preroll ads by next year.

Hotel Nippon was one of the oldest first 5 hotels in Sri Lanka which is the main landmark of Slave Island; Colombo 2 is 130 years old. 

Since 2009, Sri Lanka has seen strong year-on-year, double digit-growth in tourist arrivals. Overall infrastructure development has significantly boosted the growth and modernization of tourism, and in particular the level of offerings at hotels.&nbs

Aitken Spence Travels received the ‘Best in Class’ award presented by the Interactive Media Awards (IMA) for its revamped Aitken Spence Holidays website in the Travel and Tourism category. 

The British passenger vessel ‘Aurora’ made her graceful appearance on the Colombo port on February 6th, coming from Mumbai port, India.  

The financial year ended 31 December 2016 was the first full year of operations after the amalgamation of DFCC Bank with DFCC Vardhana Bank

More than 215, 000 people will benefit from a Euro 14 million multi-faceted housing project, financed by the European Union (EU), and implemented by Habitat for Humanity and World Vision Lanka. 

The foundation stone for ‘Deduru Oya Water Supply Project’ was laid ceremoniously on February 20thby Minister of City Planning and WaterSupply, Rauf Hakeem, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Sri  Lanka, Chang, Won-sam and 

Kanrich Finance, a company with a rich heritage of over 45 years, carried out the 12th phase of its ‘Sasunata Diriyak ’CSR initiative in Vavuniya very successfully recently.

The Central Bank’s laissez-faire policy towards the country’s foreign exchange management came under severe scrutiny yesterday as the country’s financial sector stakeholders argued whether such a policy has delivered the desired out

Inflation, as measured by the change in the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) (2013=100), which is compiled by the Department of Census and Statistics, increased to 6.5 percent in January 2017 from 4.2 per cent in December 2016, on year-on-year (Y

Local representatives of the World Food Program (WFP) this week issued a fresh warning to relevant stakeholders, pointing out Sri Lanka’s paddy cultivation is heading towards a ‘worst case scenario’ due to the ongoing drought and th

Nestlé Lanka PLC, the local unit of world’s largest food company, saw its October-December quarter (4Q16) net profit increasing to Rs.860.1 

The capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has re-opened 11 cases involving market manipulation, which were closed for two to three years ago, a top SEC official said. 

ECONOMYNEXT: Norwegian companies are interested in investing in Sri Lanka’s shipping and ports sector, the country’s envoy Thorbjorn Gaustadsaether has said.

Leading brush manufacturer B P P L Holdings Limited, (Beira Group), which will be entering the Colombo Stock Exchange next month, is hoping that its planned expansion projects, coupled with friendly policies from Donald Trump, would help expand its t

Nestlé Lanka’sManaging Director, Shivani Hegdestated:“2016 has witnessed a very challenging business environment. Our steady progress and the external recognitions

Nominations are invited for the seventh Top 50 Professional and Career Women Awards 2017, which is to take place on July 14th, organized by the Women in Management (WIM) and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group partnering the event for the third con

Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama visited Thailand recently to explore avenues of expanding and diversifying the bilateral trade and investment relations and progressing on the establishment of the industria