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Partnering for the Future: Sampath Bank inspires a spirit of entrepreneurship among Sri Lankan youth

Sampath Bank continued in its steadfast quest to empower the nation’s youth, by partnering with the Department of Technical Education and Training to develop the entrepreneurship skills of students who have completed their course of study at various technical colleges across the island. Five sessions were successfully conducted by the officers of Sampath Bank at…

(0)Comments | January 27, 2020 5:04 pm

Local Government Authorities in Galle, Batticaloa and Vavuniya ‘Give Back Life’ to PET Plastic Bottles

Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd, with funding from The Coca-Cola Foundation and the support of The Asia Foundation, Environment Foundation Limited and Eco Spindles (Pvt) Ltd, collaborated with Local Government Authorities to establish three Give Back Life PET plastic bottle collection centers in the South (Galle), East (Batticaloa) and North (Vavuniya) of Sri Lanka. These…

(0)Comments | January 27, 2020 5:01 pm

People’s Bank celebrates Thai Pongal at Wellawatte branch

People’s Bank held a special event at the Wellawatte branch recently to mark the Thai Pongal festival. During the event, a series of Hindu religious observances were held to invoke blessings to the country, people, customers as well as the staff of People’s Bank. A number of Hindu cultural features brought colour to the occasion….

(0)Comments | January 27, 2020 5:00 pm

MAZE launches limited edition socks in year 2020 Pantone Colour of the Year

Back in December, Pantone – the industry standard for matching colours announced that 2020’s Colour of the Year would be Classic Blue, a dark, calming and rich shade slightly lighter than royal blue. A trendsetter the locally designed and produced sock brand MAZE has introduced a limited edition pair in Classic Blue. Pantone waxed on…

(0)Comments | January 27, 2020 3:26 pm

Star Garment Group’s Portfolio of Factories Earns CarbonNeutral® Certification

Star Garment Group (“Star”), a leading global manufacturing company, announced today 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…

(0)Comments | January 27, 2020 12:23 pm

Next Sourcing’s “Suppliers’ Seminar 2019” shines spotlight on top performing partners

Next Sourcing, a fully-owned subsidiary of the retail clothing and accessory giant next Plc – UK, recognized and rewarded the top performing partners amongst all of the company’s suppliers at the “Suppliers’ Seminar 2019” held recently. The 2019 edition of this annual event was held at the Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo and was attended by a large gathering…

(0)Comments | January 27, 2020 12:20 pm

Hutch Celebrates Employee Achievements in 2019 at Gala Dinner Dance

Marking yet another successful year of operations, Hutch recognized and rewarded staff achievements at its end-of-year, gala Dinner Dance held at the Hilton Colombo. As the most high profile staff event in the company’s annual calendar, the evening was graced by the Senior Management of Hutch, along with other employees with spouses. Every staff member thronged…

(0)Comments | January 27, 2020 12:14 pm

iFarm Platform Offers Value-Added Services to Empower Local Farmers

SANASA General Insurance Company Ltd, together with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, recently launched iFarm, a simple and secure online insurance platform to support the local farming community. The platform gives local farmers access to a host of insurance products offered by SANASA General Insurance under two main categories – weather index-based policies…

(0)Comments | January 27, 2020 11:00 am

A culture built on trust: H-Connect secures Great Place to Work® certification

Sri Lanka’s leading Business Process Management (BPM) and Shared Services experts, H-Connect, was certified as a great workplace today by independent analysts at Great Place to Work® in Sri Lanka (GPWSL). The certification was awarded to the company based on a series of evaluations and anonymous employee surveys conducted by GPWSL. “We applaud H-Connect for…

(0)Comments | January 25, 2020 9:50 pm

Bairaha pioneers to initiate animal welfare concept

Bairaha Farms PLC., being the pioneering company in the poultry industry, was the first to introduce, large scale and modern farming concept for poultry production more than 40 years ago, as well as the first to setup a modern chicken processing factory for producing quality chicken to the market. In the pioneering spirit of the…

(0)Comments | January 25, 2020 9:15 pm