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Sri Lanka's George Stuart & Co to buy tea exporter HVA

George Steuart & Company Limited said it is buying a 51 percent stake in HVA Foods Plc, an exporter that produced instan...

December 2, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Ceylon tea prices dip as Russian winter buying slows

Sri Lanka tea prices has eased after a dip in the moment of Russian winter buying which helped buoy prices in recent wee...

November 14, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka tea sector face labour issues as Coronavirus bites

Sri Lanka tea sector including buyers who process and pack tea for export as well as some factories within isolated area...

November 9, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea production recovers in September

Sri Lanka has produce 21.91 million kilograms in September 2020, flat from 21.91 million kilograms last year, though pro...

October 26, 2020 1 min read
Sri Lanka tea exports down 12.2-pct in February 2023

Higher levels of weeds discouraged pluckers from going into the bushes

Sri Lanka rupee appreciation drives Ceylon Tea prices down

Prices of all High, Medium and Low Growns saw a fall during the auction.

Sri Lanka tea plantations improve harvests with mechanization

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) say experiments with mechanization like use...

March 22, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Finlays loses Syrian tea market

ECONMYNEXT – Finlays Colombo, a Sri Lankan tea exporters that is part of Britain’s Swire group, has comple...

March 14, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka February tea prices at two-year low

ECONOMYNEXT – Prices at Sri Lanka’s tea auction in Colombo in February remained below the levels two years...

March 8, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka January tea export earnings slump to six-year low

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea exports in January 2016 fell to their lowest level in US dollar terms in six...

February 28, 2016 1 min read

Losses narrow at Sri Lanka Tea Smallholder Factories

ECONOMYNEXT - Tea Smallholder Factories, which makes black tea from leaves bought from Sri Lankan small farmers, remaine...

February 2, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka small farmer tea production falls sharply

ECONOMYNEXT – Tea small holders in southern Sri Lanka have been among the worst affected by the prolonged slump i...

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January 31, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka Watawala Plantations December net profit up 28-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations said net profit for the December 2015 quarter rose 28 perce...

January 26, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka govt to step up monitoring of private plantations firms

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government will strengthen monitoring of state plantations under private managem...

January 15, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports drop sharply in November

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea exports fell nine percent to 26.3 million kilos in November 2015 from a year ago wit...

December 26, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka annual tea crop seen at three-year low

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s November 2015 tea crop was the lowest in seven years with the island’s an...

December 24, 2015 1 min read
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Sri Lanka plantations firms warn of higher losses from wage hike

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan plantations companies have warned that a wage hike demanded by labour unions would incre...

December 17, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea production lower in 2015

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea production this year is expected to be lower than last year as rains disrupt...

December 16, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka, Save the Children tackle poverty, anaemia on estates

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government and plantations companies have begun working with Save the Children t...

December 15, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices perk up

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan tea prices perked up at the weekly Colombo auctions possibly in response to urgent orders for t...

December 14, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea crop lowest in three years

ECONOMYNEXT – Heavy rains and poor prices have reduced Sri Lanka’s tea output this year to a three-year lo...

December 5, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lankan tea prices edge up but still below 2014 levels

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices improved in November from the previous month, with the highest gains in low g...

December 4, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports to Japan fall sharply

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea exports to Japan, considered a discerning market, have fallen sharply this y...

November 27, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea bag exports fall in October

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s exports of tea bags, which earn more than bulk tea, fell again in October 2015 f...

November 26, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea plantations credit under pressure with low prices: Fitch

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's plantations firms which get more than 50 percent of their revenue from tea has seen their cred...

November 17, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Kelani Valley Plantations losses widen in Sept quarter

ECONOMYNEXT – Losses at Sri Lanka's Kelani Valley Plantations shot up to 88 million rupees in the September 2015 ...

November 9, 2015 1 min read