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99X Technology wins Gold at 20th NCE Export Awards
Thu Sep 27 17:31:25 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.14367306
99X Technology, formerly known as Eurocenter DDC, was recognised as the Outstanding Exporter in 2011 in the Gold Category for the Export of Business and Professional Services Sector at the 20th NCE Export Awards, which was held on 21 September at Hilton, Colombo. The award benchmarks 99X Technology as an innovative thought leader in the ...
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Lankan Embassy launches vigorous campaign to promote Ceylon Tea in US
Thu Sep 27 15:31:31 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.54645485
The Sri Lanka Embassy in Washington in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Tea Board has launched a vigorous campaign to promote Ceylon Tea in the United States. The focus of the campaign is to strategically and effectively position Ceylon Tea in the US market, which is currently experiencing
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Tea tales
Sun Sep 09 17:21:42 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.11610537
2012 unlikely to match up to 2011 tea revenue; stakeholders’ voice uncertaintya By Cheranka Mendis The tea industry which brought in revenue of approximately US$ 675 million within the first six months of this year – US$ 50 million below the revenue collected in the same period in 2011 – is likely to fall short ...
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Union Bank appoints two new Independent Directors
Sun Sep 09 17:21:41 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.12314834
Union Bank announced the appointment of Sabry Ghouse and Sunil Karunanayake as new Independent Non Executive Directors to the bank’s Board of Directors with effect from 30 August 2012. Appointment of independent directors is an integral part of the bank’s good governance practices, thus ensuring further commitment to the protection of shareholder interest. In this ...
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Ceylon Tea Brokers improves performance, Chairman shares key insights
Thu Sep 06 15:46:05 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.14219946
Ceylon Tea Brokers Plc in the financial year ended on 31 March 2012 posted an income of Rs. 185.69 million, up from Rs. 157.5 million in FY11 whilst pre-tax profit improved to Rs. 63.3 million from Rs. 56.7 million. Total assets as at 31 March 2012 amounted to Rs. 933 million as against Rs. 788.7 ...
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22 services launched under the eGovernment initiative
Mon Sep 03 17:24:19 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.1451317
By Cassandra Mascarenhas The Government eServices project spearheaded by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka celebrated a landmark achievement last evening, launching 22 important eGovernment services, further strengthening the country’s Government sector by making public services easily accessible to the citizens of Sri Lanka via the internet and mobile communication systems. Presidential Secretary...
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CTTA completes Colombo Tea Auction study with MTI
Sun Aug 19 15:44:57 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.16419779
The Colombo Tea Traders’ Association (CTTA), which manages the world’s premier and largest single origin tea auction in the world – the Colombo Tea Auction (CTA) – has completed a study with MTI Consulting, aimed at improving the process of the auction. Addressing the CTTA Committee at the project presentation, Chairman of CTTA Jayantha Keragala ...
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Ad firm submits bid for US $ 9mn Ceylon Tea brand promotion
Sun Aug 05 23:56:17 EDT 2012 - dailymirror.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.6557458
Leading global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller has submitted its bid for the marketing of Ceylon Tea to the Sri Lanka Tea Board, according to Senior Advisor to the Global Strategy Team of BursonMarsteller, Martin Roll.
Sri Lanka secures direct access to fifth largest global buyer of Pure Ceylon Tea
Mon Jul 30 18:04:27 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.12314834
Sri Lanka has succeeded in becoming a direct tea supplier to Iraq, in addition to be the dominant tea supplier in the country, the fifth largest buyer of Pure Ceylon Tea in the world. “I have been given to understand that our direct shipments of Pure Ceylon Tea to Iraq have, in terms of value, ...
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NCE/SAC conducts seminar on Customs and SLPA automation
Sun Jul 29 15:27:53 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.16419779
The National Chamber of Exporters of Sri Lanka (NCE) and the Shippers Academy Colombo (SAC) conducted the third seminar in a series on Customs and SLPA automation this month, on post implementation on Customs and SLPA automation process. The event was attended by Sri Lanka Ports Authority Chairman Dr. Priyath B. Wickrama, Sri Lanka Customs ...
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Tea crop forecast cut
Thu Jul 19 19:04:25 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.16419779
Reuters: Sri Lanka now expects 2012 tea production of around 325 million kg, below its target of 330 million kg, as output has fallen in the last five months due to drought, the State-run Tea Board said. Tea production in the first half of the year fell 4.3 per cent year-on-year to 163.26 million kg ...
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Wimbledon 2012 pick-ups for Lanka
Mon Jul 16 17:08:28 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.082098894
Wimbledon is special to me not because I played the tennis circuit during my schooling days but for the insights that I get into life and business in general. The 2012 edition in particular was unique, given that a Brit was in the finals of the men’s singles game, that was happening after 74 years. ...
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Debate brewing over Sri Lanka tea blending plans - report
Sun Jul 15 05:39:17 EDT 2012 - adaderana.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 3.9154415
Sri Lanka’s tea industry is deeply divided over plans to boost earnings by importing cheaper leaves for blending and re-export, over fears the changes could water down the “Pure Ceylon” brand.
Debate brewing over Sri Lanka tea blending plans
Sun Jul 15 00:44:39 EDT 2012 - yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 4.69853
Sri Lanka's tea industry is deeply divided over plans to boost earnings by importing cheaper leaves for blending and re-export, over fears the changes could water down the "Pure Ceylon" brand. ...
Third Exporters’ Forum forges ahead
Wed Jul 11 16:46:39 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.07183653
The third in the revived Exporters’ Forum series in Sri Lanka’s new thrust concluded successfully on 10 July in Colombo with the community praising the effort for ‘active follow up’ on problems faced by Sri Lankan exporters. “Today we successfully cleared Rs. 15.5 m refunds which were due for exporters and also managed to resolve ...
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A new programme to prevent export of dust tea
Mon Jul 09 11:03:52 EDT 2012 - itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.24629667
A new programe is being planned to prevent the export of dust tea to the foreign market. Information has surfaced on an organized gang which is engaged in the dispatch of dust tea to the foreign market. Industrialists claim that this is a serious threat to Sri Lanka’s tea industry. Drawing the attention to this ...
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UK’s tech-engineering global leader Cleveland Bridge enters Sri Lanka
Fri Jun 29 17:17:06 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.10262362
As Sri Lanka-UK bilateral trade volumes reported a further rise in 2011, the UK is keen to raise its investments in Sri Lanka. “UK’s Cleveland Bridge Ltd., the well-known global tech engineering company, has won a contract to build 210 permanent steel bridges in Si Lanka. This infrastructure project is partly funded with a loan ...
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Dilmah promotes ‘Connectivity Conservation’ linking landscapes, nature and people - Top lecture ...
Mon Jun 25 16:06:34 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.12314834
Top lecture by Protected Area and World Heritage specialist Peter Shadie on WednesdayDilmah Conservation will host Protected Area and World Heritage Specialist Peter Shadie for a public lecture on Wednesday, 27 June at the Wimalasurendra Auditorium of the Institution of Engineers from 6.00 pm as part of their Bioregional Initiative. Several notable conservation specialists have ...
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B-Connected celebrates 15 years
Sun Jun 24 16:01:14 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.16419779
Corporate event management specialist B-Connected is celebrating 15 years of success. Identifying a niche market for corporate event management, B-Connected was started as a small one-woman enterprise in 1997. Today it has grown and diversified, its roots spreading from event management to recruitment, office support services and more. Events and conference management remains the core ...
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May tea crop down
Tue Jun 19 16:54:18 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.6557458
As per latest production data released by the Sri Lanka Tea Board, crop in May has declined by 2.8 million kilos to 30.8 million kilos over a year earlier. “During May, 2012, all three elevation categories have recorded lower crops than the corresponding month last year, with the harvests
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NCE workshop on post implementation of ASYCUDA, online bill payments
Tue Jun 19 16:54:14 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.24629667
The National Chamber of Exporters of Sri Lanka (NCE) in association with the Shippers Academy (SA) has organised a workshop to discuss, various issues in the post introduction of ASYCUDA world and online bill payments on 15 July from 8a.m. to 12 noon at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. It will involve the participation of ...
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New Cancer Hospital affiliated to the Maharagama Cancer Institute is to be constructed
Wed Jun 13 13:21:30 EDT 2012 - itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.54645485
Another Cancer Hospital affiliated to the National Cancer Institute at Maharagama is to be constructed. It will be built at a cost of 2100 million rupees. The Ahamad Tea Company in London which sends Sri Lanka tea to around 70 countries for about 25 years will be giving 1500 million rupees
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SL Consulate in USA’s biggest economy woos int’l investors with special campaign
Wed Jun 13 13:13:33 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.14367306
Sri Lanka has successfully showcased its latest investment opportunities to keen global investors who visited the world’s ninth largest economy to gauge the future of US manufacturing and global economic outlook. The Sri Lankan pavilion at the ‘International Trade Outlook 2012’ event held in California, the biggest economy in US and the ninth largest in ...
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Tea On A Rocky Perch
Sat Jun 09 15:47:04 EDT 2012 - thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.16419779
By Chrishanthi Christopher Sri Lanka’s Tea Exporters fear that tea will lose its place as one of the major revenue earners for the country if trade with Iran is abandoned. With Iran out of the market it is reported that for over five weeks the high grown teas are being sold at low prices to ...
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Getting ready for Rio+20… industry-led
Tue Jun 05 15:01:32 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.06157417
SL: Cleanest country in South Asia As we celebrate World Environment Day today, it is important to acknowledge that the Sri Lankan economy has experienced accelerated growth from a 20 billion dollar economy in the 1990s to be a 59 billion rupee economy as at end 2011. However a point to note is that whilst ...
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Ministry of Economic Development breaks silence; responds to tourism, BOI issues
Tue May 29 14:51:46 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.06157417
Wide publicity has been given to the events unfolding at the Sri Lanka Tourism regarding the resignation of the Chairman from Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau, Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management and Sri Lanka Convention Bureau and the performance of the Board of Investment. The media reports have given the impression that ...
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Should SL take ‘tea hub’ route?
Mon May 28 16:45:38 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.087079026
Ballooning trade gap Even with the multitude of measures taken to curb imports, Sri Lanka's cumulative trade deficit widened to nearly US$ 1.7 billion in the first two months of the year with earnings from exports increasing marginally by 3.3 per cent to US$ 1.8 billion whilst import expenditure shooting by 24.7 per cent to ...
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Bringing the tea lion roaring up in front
Thu May 24 15:40:45 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.10262362
By The Lion Without Spot The Pure Ceylon Tea debate rages on. Though the dialogue so far has largely been confined to the print media on the way forward for Sri Lanka’s tea industry and it will no doubt open out the opportunity for discussion in other forums as well, in the days to come. ...
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Ceylon Tea in catch-22?
Mon May 21 16:06:47 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.07183653
Sri Lanka’s tea industry generates around 1.5 billion dollars to Sri Lanka and provides almost a million jobs to the economy today. In fact Sri Lanka is considered a model to the world across the value chain, from growing to production and from physical distribution to the most admired auction system in the world. From ...
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Dilmah’s Malik responds to Willie Weerasekera’s Pure Ceylon Tea or Tea hub? - Following is the r...
Sun May 20 15:25:37 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.11610537
Following is the response from Dlimah Tea Director Malik J. Fernando to Willie Weerasekera’s article ‘Pure Ceylon Tea’ or ‘tea hub’? The billion dollar question published last Friday in Daily FT.The writer speaks sense when he says “the million-dollar question is therefore much more than ‘Ceylon Tea’ or ‘tea hub’ – It is: How do ...
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