Demonstrating its commitment to product excellence once again, Swisstek Aluminium Limited was recently awarded the prestigious QUALICOAT certification for its aluminium products. Swisstek Aluminium is the first and only aluminium manufacturer in Sri Lanka to receive this certification, which was awarded after its powder coated aluminium products passed several rigorous, standardised tests, involving carefully selected…
AIA Insurance Lanka PLC has entered into a strategic partnership with Sampath Bank PLC on insurance premium payments to enhance customer convenience. Appointing Sampath Bank as its payments channel in Sri Lanka, AIA has opened up a wide mix of the Bank’s physical and digital touchpoints to its policyholders and Wealth Planners. They will now…
Longtime Lankan Angel Network (LAN) member Murali Sundar, through his Canada-based multinational company Marcatus QED Inc, has signed on as the Platinum Sponsor for Geek Challenge (YGC) Season 7, which concludes with a Grand Finale in Colombo on November 17, 2018. This annual startup competition, organized by the Yarl IT Hub, recently held its Semi…
In a bid to revolutionize the advertising and digital communications industry, Arimac Digital recently unveiled WynkAR—the Country’s one and only augmented reality platform available to smartphone to blur the line between offline and online advertising. The platform will allow users to look at real-world objects enhanced with text and digital graphics through their smartphone cameras….
Samsung Sri Lanka recently launched Galaxy A7, with a stunning design, powerful Rear Triple Camera, striking new colours and superior performance. Galaxy A7 has been developed based on the consumer insight that nearly half of the Sri Lankan millennials use their smartphone cameras daily and their rear camera twice as much as the front camera….
Toastmasters public speaking champion Tharindu Ameresekere launched his first publication TOFSYM – Think on Feet & Speak Your Mind dedicated to Impromptu Speaking on the 2nd of November 2018. The event was held at the Mango Tree Lounge amidst a selected group of invitees. Tharindu is currently a senior lecturer specialising in Business Economics and…
The Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI) and Chatham House, UK recently launched a major academic study on Chinese outbound investment and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This study adopts an evidence-based approach to look at the broad benefits and costs of the BRI to recipients in order to improve…
Sysco LABS, in collaboration with IgniterSpace and Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM), held a workshop with children from the Maharagama Boys Home to introduce them to STEM education. Sysco LABS sought to teach the fundamentals of engineering to the kids and help build a foundation from which they could explore their…
Driving further consolidation of its end-to-end supply chain solutions, EFL (Expolanka Freight) announced a rebranding of its Freeport operations under the new moniker: ‘EFL Global Freeport (Pvt) Ltd’. Representing the first private sector enterprise to be granted a license to operate as a Freeport in Sri Lanka, the Freeport’s recent rebranding flows from a continuous…
Leading e-commerce company, Daraz, is bringing 11.11, the ‘World’s Biggest Sale Day’, to Sri Lanka for the first time. The one-day sale is sponsored by Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever, Anchor, Samsung, Avirate, Browns and Co and Nivea – as well as Rakuten Viber as the messaging Partner. During the first mega event since the launch of…
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