This valuable accolade is based on the findings of a survey conducted by PepperCube Consultants, commissioned by LMD.
LMD readers from the Western, Southern, Central, North-western and Northern provinces participated in the survey, and their responses led to the compilation of the rankings of the country’s Most Loved Brands under 43 categories.
The sample composition for the survey reflected the demographic diversity of LMD readers comprising 52 percent female and 48 percent male respondents.
Commenting on this achievement, CEAT Kelani Holdings Chief Operating Officer Mr Shamal Gunawardene said:
“This is a great tribute to all the hard work that goes on, invisible to the public eye, to develop and manufacture tyres specifically for the local market.
This accolade is especially significant because not everyone interviewed for the survey would have been a tyre user.
It indicates that our brand building efforts are reaching a wider audience, which is fitting, because passenger lives ride on tyres too.”
Also adjudged the best-managed tyre manufacturing company in Sri Lanka in 2025 by the Institute of Chartered Professional Managers (CPM), CEAT Kelani Holdings is Sri Lanka’s most awarded tyre manufacturer, with numerous awards including National Business Excellence Awards, and multiple quality awards from the International Convention on Quality Circles.
Granted Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) Tier I status by Sri Lanka Customs in recognition of high levels of legal and operational compliance and strong supply chain security, CEAT Kelani manufactures half of Sri Lanka’s pneumatic tyre requirements, playing a significant role in helping the national economy conserve foreign exchange by reducing dependence on imported tyres, and exports about 20 per cent of its production to 16 countries.
CEAT Kelani also currently supplies more than 150,000 Original Equipment (OE) tyres annually to the local vehicle assembly industry, covering more than 90 per cent of vehicles assembled in Sri Lanka.
Locally-manufactured CEAT tyres are now original equipment in more than 30 models of SUVs, cars, buses, lorries, pick-up trucks, motorcycles and scooters of 11 brands of vehicles rolling off assembly lines in Sri Lanka.