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Sri Lanka's Piramal Glass Ceylon net up 60-pct

Sri Lanka's Piramal Glass Ceylon Plc, said profits rose 60 percent from a year ago to 378 million rupees in the December...

February 4, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Global Rubber Industries adds agricultural tyre capacity

Sri Lanka's Global Rubber Industries said it is adding an agricultural tyre palnt that will take its capacity to 750,000...

January 23, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka state land on 30-year lease to Pelwatte Milk

Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had approved the transfer of 22 hectares of state land to Pelwatte Milk Industries Ltd,...

January 17, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka revises 'local value addition matrix' for assembled vehicles

Sri Lanka has revised the domestic 'value addition' criteria of assembled vehicles following discussions with the indust...

January 17, 2021 1 min read
Sri Lanka sugar firms burying ethanol after currency collapse, taxes: Minister

Legal alcohol producers are not buying ethanol produced at state-run sugar firms and material is piling up

Sri Lanka suspends soft alcohol licences to hotels pending court case

Sri Lanka’s Excise Department suspended soft alcohol licenses issued to hotels and restaurants registered with SLTPB.

Sri Lanka brush maker Beira group IPO oversubscribed

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's BPPL Holdings, a brush exporter also known as Beira Group, said its initial public offer of 30...

March 7, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s C W Mackie in fruit drink JV with Denmark’s Co-Ro

ECONOMYNEXT – C W Mackie PLC, the Sri Lankan partner of Denmark’s Co-Ro A/S, has struck a joint venture de...

February 27, 2017 1 min read

Prima Sri Lanka unit sees network video growth in analytics, retail

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lanka unit of Singapore’s Prima Group says its surveillance camera business which ha...

February 22, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka based Lanka Harness maker to buy Japan parent

Lanka Harness, a Sri Lanka based precision technology company that makes airbag sensors and seat belts, plans to buy out...

February 22, 2017 1 min read

Piramal Glass Sri Lanka unit December net up 22-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Piramal Glass Ceylon said net profit rose 21.7 percent to Rs202 million from a year ago in the Dece...

February 17, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s J L Morisons to invest $13.5mn in pharma plant

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s J L Morisons Son & Jones (Ceylon) PLC said it plans to invest $13.5 million to b...

February 16, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Bogala Graphite December net doubles to Rs24mn

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka's Bogala Graphite said net profit for the December 2016 quarter rose 95 percent to Rs24.2...

February 13, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lankan brush maker to list on stock exchange

ECONOMYNEXT – B P P L Holdings Ltd., a Sri Lankan brush manufacturer and supplier of other cleaning products, has...

February 13, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Haycarb December net profit up 23-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan coconut shell-based activated carbon manufacturer Haycarb said December 2016 quarter net...

February 11, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Sierra Cables December quarter net up 28-pct

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Sierra Cables, which has been expanding into Africa and the Pacific islands, said December 201...

February 8, 2017 1 min read
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Sri Lanka to set up industrial park with India: PM

Sri Lanka and India will set up a joint venture industrial park in the North Central province, close to the expressway t...

February 3, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Keells Food December net profit down 21-pct

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka's Keells Food Products said December 2016 quarter net profit fell 21 percent to...

February 2, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Dipped Products returns to profit in Dec quarter

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s non-medical rubber gloves maker Dipped Products said it returned to profit in th...

February 1, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka fabric maker net down 30-pct; hopes up on GSP+

Teejay Lanka Plc, a Sri Lanka-based fabric maker said profits fell 30 percent to 473 million rupees in the December 2016...

January 27, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Alumex buys land to expand capacity

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Alumex Plc, an aluminium extrusions firm, said it is purchasing land for Rs420 million to expa...

January 11, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka unveils special zone to attract Chinese industries

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and ambassador Yi Xianliang launched a special industrial zone in Hambantota yesterd...

January 7, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka's RIGID Tyre starts building factory

Rigid Tyre Corporation (Pvt) Ltd, a unit of Sri Lanka's Ceylon Steel Group, started construction of a $75 million (Rs11....

January 6, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka starts building Volkswagen assembly plant

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe laid the foundation stone for a plant to assemble Volkswagen vehicles.

January 3, 2017 1 min read

China to build LNG power plant, oil refinery and dockyard in Hambantota

China plans to build a liquid natural gas fired power plant an oil refinery and a dockyard involving 4.0 billion US doll...

December 22, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka to do islandwide survey to find gem deposits

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers has approved a project for a survey to find and assess gem depo...

November 23, 2016 1 min read