Business News

Ford Motor Company, together with its local partner Future Automobiles, today awarded a US$20,000 (approximately 2,607,000LKR) grant to the Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka (FOGSL), the 2014 Ford Conservation and Environmental Grants Programme recipient in Sri Lanka.

Velvet, Sri Lanka’s No.1 beauty soap brand clinched three Gold awards including the highest accolade of the night; Brand of the Year 2014, at the recently concluded Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) Brand Excellence Awards 2014.

A 2kg increase in daily plucking average of tea can provide win-win solution.

Mobitel tied up with LAUGFS Holdings recently in an initiative to introduce an efficient Near Field Communication (NFC)-based ‘ONE’ fuel card solution that could be utilised at all LAUGFS filling stations islandwide.

The ‘Jaffna IT Week’, scheduled to be held from 3 to 6 December 2014, is an industry initiative for inclusive growth and reconciliation, driven by SLASSCOM, and supported by the Export Development Board (EDB), Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), Ministry of Education (MOE), University of Jaffna and the Yarl IT Hub.

Sweeps up top awards at the national event for software products.

Serafima Kobzeva has stunned some of the social media fashion observers with her sensational pose for JLM couture and in the process showed why some fashion fans and observers consider her a model of elite potential and one who is quickly becoming an in-demand commodity.

The Samaritans charity has launched a new app which will notify Twitter users if people they follow on the site appear to be suicidal.

Brandix i3 further expanded operations in the US by opening its new ‘Innovation Center’ at the Minnesota Bio Business Center in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

CIC Agri Businesses wins Gold at NCE Awards

Tuesday, 28 October 2014 09:25

CIC Agri Produce Export (Pvt) Ltd, a part of CIC Agri Businesses recently won a highly acclaimed gold award in the Agriculture Value Added Small Category at the 22nd National Chamber of Exporters (NCE) Awards Ceremony. CIC has previously been awarded a gold award and silver award in 2012 and 2011 respectively in the same category.