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Sri Lanka’s Millers Brewery goes to Lion

Millers Brewery Limited confirmed that it has concluded transferring its trademark and entire shareholdings to Lion Brewery Ceylon PLC and its subsidiary Pearl Springs (Private) Limited for Rs. 5.15 billion. With the acquisition of the trademarks, Lion Brewery Ceylon PLC has now consolidated the Millers Brewery Limited portfolio of brands into Lions portfolio and will…

(0)Comments | November 3, 2014 11:29 am

Trade renewal in offing with largest Nepali biz visit in a decade

As Lanka-Nepal trade leaped by threefold and showed new signs of revival, the biggest Nepali business delegation to Sri Lanka after almost a decade concluded their visit successfully on 02 November and also gave an unprecedented opening for the country’s artisans to enter two of the highly profitable craft markets in the region through Nepal-and…

(0)Comments | November 3, 2014 10:26 am

Fitch Downgrades Abans Plc to ‘BBB+(lka)’; Outlook Negative

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Sri Lanka-based retailer Abans Plc’s National Long-Term Rating to ‘BBB+(lka)’ from ‘A-(lka)’. Fitch has also downgraded the National Long-Term Rating on Abans’ unsecured redeemable debentures to ‘BBB+(lka)’ from ‘A-(lka)’. Fitch has affirmed Abans’ outstanding commercial paper at National Short-term Rating of ‘F2(lka)’. The one-notch downgrade reflects Fitch’s view that Abans’ medium-term…

(0)Comments | November 1, 2014 8:42 am

Stock Market Review – 31st Oct 2014

Colombo bourse wrapped the weekly operations on Friday recording a 4 week high turnover of LKR 3.8bn. The turnover was driven by the significant crossings recorded in Nations Trust Bank where 22.9mn (9.9% of the issued capital of NTB) shares changed hands at LKR 95.00 per share. The value of NTB crossings was LKR 2.2bn…

(0)Comments | October 31, 2014 5:46 pm

Sri Lanka to standardize fuel prices island-wide

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) says that though in the recent past fuel stations outside Colombo were permitted to sell petrol and diesel at Cents 50 to 60 more than the prices in the city this practice would be stopped from tomorrow (01 November). CPC Chairman Sirisena Amarasekera told adaderanabiz.lk that from tomorrow fuel would…

(0)Comments | October 31, 2014 2:42 pm

Rs. 2,500 Budget allowance to Sri Lanka’s pensioners from November

The Finance Ministry has decided to add the interim allowance of Rs. 2,500 to pensioners provided through the 2015 Budget to their payments from 10 November. Finance Ministry Deputy Secretary S.R. Attygalle told adaderanabiz.lk, “All steps are being taken to add the interim allowance of Rs. 2,500 to pensioners provided through the 2015 Budget to…

(0)Comments | October 31, 2014 2:31 pm

14 Rubber Confab concludes, great experience say players

After two days of deliberations the fourth Global Rubber Confab in Colombo closed successfully on 29 October –with participating international reps hailing it a ‘great experience’. “This is an experience-Sri Lanka’s GRC is an astounding success. Despite the very low rubber prices in the global market, we have been fortunate to have it in Sri…

(0)Comments | October 31, 2014 10:11 am

Janashakthi Limited debenture issue

Janashakthi Limited is to offer 5,000,000 rated senior unsecured redeemable debentures at Rs. 100 each with an option to issue up to a further 5,000,000 in the event of an oversubscription. Subscription list opens on 12 November 2014. First Capital Limited are the Managers to the issue while the Registrars are Business Intelligence Limited.

(0)Comments | October 30, 2014 5:18 pm

Mercantile Investments and Finance debenture issue oversubscribed

The debenture issue by Mercantile Investments and Finance PLC has been oversubscribed after receiving applications for over Rs. 200 million. The issue closed at 4.30 pm today (30 October) and the basis of allotment is to be notified to the Colombo Stock Exchange shortly.

(0)Comments | October 30, 2014 4:53 pm

Sri Lanka’s Pan Asia Banking Corporation to accept 10 million more debentures

Pan Asia Banking Corporation is to exercise the option to accept the further 10 million debentures in addition to the initial issue of the 20 million debentures at Rs. 100 each and to issue 30 million debentures in total. The basis of allotment of the 30 million debentures is as follows: Preferential allotment: Up to…

(0)Comments | October 30, 2014 4:30 pm