Business News

Colombo gears up for more Cycle Fun

Thursday, 25 June 2015 04:00

The popular Colombo Cycle Fun Ride, organised by the Pedal Pushers Club, and sponsored by E FM, is returning for its fourth successful year.

Northshore College of Business & Technology, a leading higher education institute affiliated with the prestigious Bristol-based University of the West England (UWE) Bristol, has opened up its Information Centre in Colombo 03 in addition to its iconic state-of-the-art campus situated on a Four acre land in Colombo 15.

Alpha Industries, one of the leading furniture manufacturers in Sri Lanka, is offering a unique home furniture promotion for couples looking to tie the knot during this year’s wedding season.

Sri Lanka’s most prolific motor racing team who transformed themselves to an International Racing Team were put on the path of success in just their 2nd year in the international motor sport when their newest addition, Mike Young entertained Australia as he drove his Cusco EZY Racing Subaru to its very first 2nd placed finish, in debut year no less, in the 4 wheel drive category, competing for the Asia Pacific Rally Championship.

Supported by the European Union (EU), the World Environment Day 2015 was marked by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, through a series of awareness raising and community participation activities in Batticaloa, Mannar and Vavuniya districts.

Samsung has developed a solution that may make the problem of overtaking a truck on a single lane road a thing of the past.

Taylor Swift has strongly condemned Apple’s refusal to pay artists, labels, songwriters and publishers any royalties for the three-month free trial of Apple Music.

Recently celebrating two years in the industry, award winning popular restaurant chain The Manhattan FISH MARKET Sri Lanka, announced its ‘Good things come in two’ promotion this month.

While Adidas may have a formidable marketing machine churning out communications to trigger sales, the sports giant has another trick up its sleeve to tempt customers – colour.

NDB already having structured and placed the largest Corporate Debenture Issue to be listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange, saw another similar sizeddebenture being successfully oversubscribed and closed on the opening day itself.