Softlogic Finance PLC opened its 27th branch in Matale, thereby increasing its presence in the Central Province to five locations and continuing the company’s expansion drive under which eight branches were opened during the last calendar year.

The Würth Group, the top German company and the world's market leader in its core business - the trade in assembly and fastening materials, reported that its worldwide revenue exceeded Eur 11.05 Billion in the year 2015 (2014: Eur 10.13 Billion) which displays a healthy global growth of 9.0 percent YoY.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has enhanced its presence in the Biyagama area with the opening of a supermarket banking unit at the Laugfs Supermarket at 328 A, New Kandy Road, Delgoda.

The Citrus Leisure Group announced a revenue of Rs. 323 million for the third quarter of 2015/16 ending 31st December 2015, a 66% growth compared to the corresponding quarter in 2014/15.

Singer Sri Lanka’s public listed subsidiary Singer Finance (Lanka) PLC, recently announced the appointment of Russell de Mel as an independent Non-Executive Director to the Board with effect from 1 January 2016.

At CES 2016, the Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) announced strong business results and rapid year-over-year growth.

Adding to the numerous corporate honours CDB has been collating this year, Team CDB was crowned with the prestigious Gold Award at the SLITAD People Development Awards 2015 organised by the Sri Lanka Institute of Training and Development.

Back for the sixth consecutive year, SLASSCOM’s People Summit 2016 aims to kick off your year by providing leaders at all levels with pioneering talent management insights and perspectives from renowned global leaders, as well as a prime networking and experience sharing opportunity.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) announced the addition of full Sinhala and Tamil translations of Sri Lanka’s labour laws to the Salary.lk website in an effort to improve awareness of workers’ and employers’ rights and duties.

Instant, real-time fund transfers between Oman and Sri Lanka have become possible as a result of a tie-up between the Commercial Bank of Ceylon and Bank Muscat, the leading financial services provider in the Sultanate.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon is to reward customers for usage of the Bank’s Mobile Banking facility, with Rs 1.5 million in cash prizes over the next three months.