“A Walk for Education”, an initiative taken by Give2SriLanka, (www.give2SriLanka.com) was held at the Racecourse Grounds, Colombo 7 recently. It saws the participation of over two hundred students, activists, senior management and employees of Berendina, as well as many well-wishers. The walk and music festival was organized by Give2SriLanka, in order to raise funds and…
Launches country-wide sustainability initiative by planting 4,000 trees The management, staff and sales team of Ceylinco Life planted approximately 4,000 trees in one week in January 2016 to kick off a year dedicated by Sri Lanka’s life insurance leader to ‘Going Green.’ Launched with the planting of a mango tree by Ceylinco Life Managing Director/CEO…
Omega Line, one of the leading export oriented apparel industries in Sri Lanka was awarded Export Excellence Award in the Garment Trade category at the recently concluded Presidential export Awards. The award ceremony organized by the Export Development Board (EDB) annually recognizes exporters. The award ceremony was held this time at the Nelum Pokuna in…
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced that an on-going initiative to make its branches island wide accessible to differently abled customers has passed the half way mark. The Bank said it has completed the construction of wheel chair ramps at 130 branches, facilitating disabled access to customer areas and automated teller machines (ATMs) under…
Social Enterprise Lanka successfully concluded a series of unique workshops for a selected group of social entrepreneurs. Social Enterprises are self-sustainable entities with the core-purpose of creating positive social and environmental impact. “The tools given to us such as the Business Model Canvas (BMC) and the templates such as Financial Plans are super useful” said…
Emirates announced the expansion of its operation in Switzerland with the addition of a second daily service to Geneva effective 1st June 2016. The second daily flight will double capacity on the route and represents an overall increase of 26% for Emirates in Switzerland. The new flight will be operated by a state-of-the-art Boeing 777-300ER…
Prima Kottumee took their annual Model Hunt event to a new level this year with the entire search being conducted through social media for the brand’s crowd sourced, e-calendar. Harnessing the power of the brand’s 47k Facebook fans, the four-week event was dubbed “The Selfie Season”, with each week getting its own theme. These themes…
DSI starts the New Year with a bang by introducing yet another new brand to the footwear market of Sri Lanka. Launched in 1999 by Regal Shoes, Inc.5 was created with the aim of filling the gap between the 16-35 age groups by designing trendy and stylish footwear. The brand that started off with just…
The Sri Lanka National Visually Handicapped Cricket Team was recently privileged to have been invited by the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) to participate in the first-ever T20 Asia Cup Tournament dedicated to visually handicapped cricketers. The tournament has been scheduled to be held in Kochi, India from 17th to 24th January…
Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC has announced the appointment of Neminda Karunaratne as Director, Human Resources, effective January 1, 2016 following the retirement of Chitral Perera. Chirtal retired after 18 years of valuable service and contribution to the Company. He joined Singer in 1997 as Manager, Human Resources and was appointed as Director, Human Resources in…
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