Business News

Makeyourtrip.com, Sri Lanka's first online platform to build, customise, edit and price travel itineraries, has widened its reach by adding a number of fantastic new destinations to select from.

Pyramid Wilmar, the company behind Sri Lanka’s number one edible oil – Fortune, officially launched MEADOWLEA, a product of Goodman Fielder Australia and widely known to be one of Australia’s favourite spreads.

It was no easy decision the jury comprising His Excellency Jörn Rohde German Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, D.D. Amarathunga, Additional Secretary from the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy and representatives of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and from the Sri Lanka Energy Managers Association (SLEMA) had to made.

The proportion of businesses in Asia Pacific reaping the rewards of embracing cloud infrastructure services has increased significantly in the last quarter, according to a global survey of 1,610 IT professionals.

S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike National Memorial Foundation (BMICH) recently organised a series of Blood and Eye Donation campaigns, as well as Religious Observances, in commemoration of its Founders.

BBDO Lanka took home a Gold and a Finalist award for its two entries at the Effie Awards Sri Lanka held recently at the Waters Edge.

India’s leading electric vehicles manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra is preparing a massive push in the electric mobility business with a planned investment of over $600 million.

Ideal Motors (Pvt) Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary company of the Ideal Group, which has been representing Mahindra & Mahindra since 2009, with core business interests in Motor Franchise Imports and Motor Spare Parts in Sri Lanka, announced the fact that Mahindra has topped the sales satisfaction index among mass market brands followed by Toyota and Ford, as per global market research firm JD Power.

Representatives of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) were recently hosted by NASDAQ at NASDAQ MarketSite – the commercial marketing presence of the NASDAQ stock market and the location for Market Bell Ceremonies at New York's Times Square.

Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) sponsored the ‘Best Innovative Exporter of the Year’ at the 25th annual export awards ceremony of the National Chamber of Exporters (NCE).