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Sri Lanka exporters testing staff for Covid-19, EDB curfew support for non-BoI firms

Sri Lanka's Export Development Board said it has set up hotlines to help non-Board of Investment companies move staff th...

October 15, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Katunayake Coronavirus curfew to contain Covid-19 infections from factories

Sri Lanka has imposed a Coronavirus curfew in Katunayake police area to reduce the chances of Covid-19 spreading from fa...

October 15, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka factory attendance drops as Covid-19 found in more firms

Sri Lanka's export firms are seeing attendance drop to the current Coronavirus wave which raising concerns over producti...

October 14, 2020 4 min read

Second Sri Lanka factory under coronavirus cloud - Updated

A factory in the Katunayake Export Processing Zone is being sanitized and associates of a suspected coronavirus patient ...

October 9, 2020 2 min read
Sri Lanka warned that 12-month mining permit would make investors "run away"

Because that is too much of a risk for someone to come and invest

Sri Lanka mineral industry kept down by unusual export value added tax

In Sri Lanka royalties are charged on the free on board (export) price of the mineral, not the pithead price

CEAT Sri Lanka to raise radial tyre capacity by 75-pct

ECONOMYNEXT - CEAT Sri Lanka has announced it will invest Rs 800 million over the next 12 months to increase radial tyre...

May 31, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Ceylon Cold Stores in US$20mn expansion

ECONOMYNEXT - Ceylon Cold Stores Plc, a unit of Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings, which owns the Elephant House ice cre...

May 30, 2016 1 min read

Indonesia’s PrimeCo takes 40-pct stake in Sri Lankan packaging firm

ECONOMYNEXT – PrimeCo Group, an Indonesian commodity trader and property developer has taken a 40% stake in Sri L...

May 27, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Dipped Products buys full control of Italian marketing unit

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan rubber gloves manufacturer Dipped Products said it has bought full control of ICOGUANTI ...

May 25, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka beer factory flooded

ECONOMYNEXT – Floods caused by heavy rain in Sri Lanka in the past several days have halted production at Lion Br...

May 19, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Haycarb net down 15-pct in March

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka-based Haycarb Plc, an activated carbon maker that also has operations in East Asia said profits ...

May 19, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Dipped Product profits flat in March

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Dipped Products Products Plc, which has operations in non-medical gloves and rubber farms, sai...

May 18, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka specialist judges Quality Circles in India

ECONOMYNEXT - Sunil Wijesinha, a top Sri Lanka expert in Japanese management techniques, says their use is increasing i...

May 18, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Bogala Graphite says strike resolved

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Bogala Graphite said labour unrest at its mine has been resolved and production has resumed.

May 13, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka Adam Carbons in rice husk carbonisation deal

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan-activated carbon maker Adam Carbons (Pvt) Ltd has signed a joint venture deal with South...

May 9, 2016 1 min read
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Nestlé Sri Lanka unit March net up 10-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan unit of food multinational Nestlé said March 2016 quarter net profit rose 10.1 pe...

May 6, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka Piramal Glass to expand capacity, annual profit up 50-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan glass bottle maker Piramal Glass Ceylon said net profit during the year ended 31 March 2...

April 25, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka to assemble Volkswagen diesels for domestic market

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's investment promotion agency said Senok Automobile (Pvt) Ltd, will be given land to build a pla...

April 11, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lankans warned of looming water cuts amid drought

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's state-run water supply agency has asked customers not use piped drinking water to wash cars or...

March 27, 2016 1 min read

India's Hero buys Sri Lanka bicycle maker eyeing EU exports

ECONOMYNEXT - India's Hero Cycles Ltd, has bought controls of BSH Ventures Ltd, a Sri Lanka based bicycle maker with Ban...

March 23, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka beer drinkers to switch to arrack after tax hike: Fitch

ECONOMYNEXT - Arrack drinkers who were switching to beer until last year would now move back into the hard alcohol after...

February 25, 2016 4 min read

Sri Lanka's Distilleries group net up 11-pct

ECONOMYNEXT - Profits at Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka, which has interests in alcohol, plantations, insurance and t...

February 9, 2016 2 min read

Lanka Tiles December quarter net up 173-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan floor tile maker Lanka Tiles said December 2015 quarter net profit shot up 173 percent t...

February 9, 2016 1 min read

Unilever Sri Lanka factory gutted; 'will strive' keep customers supplied

ECONOMYNEXT - Unilever Sri Lanka said it will "strive to maintain supplies" after its main factory in Sri Lanka was gutt...

February 6, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka Dipped Products makes Rs79mn loss in December quarter

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan rubber gloves manufacturer Dipped Products slipped into the December 2015 quarter, reporting a ...

February 3, 2016 1 min read