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General Industry

Sri Lanka egg production to pick up by year end: Minister

Egg and poultry prices are likely to drop by December, and there would be no further price hikes, minister says

September 15, 2023 2 min read

Dutch feminist policy to help unlock female economic potential in Sri Lanka

Netherlands to help Sri Lanka unlock female workforce potential with feminist foreign policy

August 31, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka to lease state land for Dambulla Agro Cool warehouse

Land given on 30-year lease

August 29, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka mineral sands SOE pays Rs1.5bn dividends

Lanka Mineral Sands Limited mines beach sands and exports

August 23, 2023 1 min read
Sri Lanka's Lion Brewery says volumes 'soft' after Jan tax hike, profits up in Dec Q

Lion says it is on track to pay Rs96bn in taxes to the state, making up 3-pct of the total

Japanese firms in Sri Lanka optimistic on 2025 performance, more than India, Vietnam

About 21.4 percent of firms expected operating profits to remain the same

Sri Lanka to allow factories in low Coronavirus-risk areas to open

Sri Lanka will allow factories in low-risk areas and export processing zones to operated subject to health regulations d...

Imesh Ranasinghe
April 11, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka apparel industry appeals for re-opening, salary support over Coronavirus crisis

Sri Lanka's apparel industry has asked for early re-opening of factories to avoid competitors taking their business, sus...

April 9, 2020 7 min read

Sri Lanka bootleg mushrooms during Corona curfew

The manufacture of moonshine has spiked in Sri Lanka as a nation-wide indefinite curfew slapped to contain COVID-19 was ...

April 9, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka business leaders slash their pay 60-pct over Coronavirus

Senior executives of top business groups in Sri Lanka have taken up to 60 per cent salary cuts as Coronavirus kills sale...

April 7, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka closes export industrial zones over coronavirus

Sri Lanka has closed export industrial zones and sent workers home as part of efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic,...

March 27, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka rubber industry calls for state support

Sri Lanka's rubber producers, who export nearly 1 billion US dollars annually, is calling for state support during the ...

March 26, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka declares three districts as "high risk" for COVID19; organises home delivery of essentials

Sri Lanka has declared three districts including that of the capital Colombo as high risk for the spread of COVID19 and ...

March 24, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Prima Ceylon gives 222MT of wheat, poultry for Coronavirus quarantine drive

Sri Lanka's Prima Ceylon, a unit of Singpapore based Prima group has donated over 220 ttonnes of wheat flour, chicken, s...

March 24, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka expects apparel orders to recover; Coronavius hit on exports US$500mn in 2Q

Sri Lanka is expecting to lose 500 million US dollars of apparel exports from March to June 2020, as an outbreak of Cor...

Mahadiya Hamza
March 7, 2020 4 min read

Nestlé Sri Lanka unit Dec profits fall on lower sales

The Sri Lankan unit of food and beverage multinational Nestlé said profits for the December quarter fell 17.2 percent t...

March 3, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard returns to losses in Dec on forex transactions

Colombo Dockyard Plc, a Sri Lankan shipbuilding unit of Japan's Onomichi Dockyard, reported a 90.98 million rupee loss f...

March 2, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka cigarette sales down 19-pct in Dec quarter after tax hikes says BAT unit

Sri Lanka's legal cigarette sales are fell 19 percent in the December 2019 from a year earlier after tax and price hikes...

February 26, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka cement capacity to outstrip demand in next few years

Sri Lanka's cement production and bagging capacity will outstrip demand in the near term with new plants coming in, unti...

February 23, 2020 2 min read

Coronavirus dampens Sri Lanka manufacturing and service activity in Jan

Sri Lanka's industrial and service sectors fell in January from December on the coronavirus outbreak in China, the centr...

February 17, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Lion Brewery profits fall in Dec

Lion Brewery Plc, Sri Lanka's largest beer manufacturer, said net profits for the December quarter fell 50 percent to 55...

February 13, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka apparel exporters eye regional supply chain management

Sri Lanka's apparel industry has the capacity to expand into offshore supply chain management for their customers and bu...

Mahadiya Hamza
February 13, 2020 2 min read

Apparel slowdown dampens Sri Lankan industrial activity in Dec

Sri Lanka's industrial activitiy slowed in December from a month earlier, with a fall in apparel manufacturing, the stat...

February 12, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka firms could cut chemical usage by 40-pct: UNIDO

Sri Lankan firms could cut chemical usage and costs by 40 percent and save on water and energy use if they follow best ...

February 12, 2020 2 min read

Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka profits up in Dec on lower input costs

Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka Plc (DCSL) posted 1.47 billion rupees in net profits for the December quarter, rising ...

February 11, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Ceylon Graphene Technologies ups capacity as advanced batteries are readied for sale

Ceylon Graphene Technologies, a start-up nano technology firm in Sri Lanka is expanding capacity as industrial batteries...

Chanka Jayasinghe
February 7, 2020 2 min read