Business Notebook

The Indian Travel Congress, the 46th Annual Convention of the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) was held in Colombo...

Singapore Airlines made another first amongst many with the introduction of WISEMAN, the world's most advanced inflight en- tertainment system,...

Pan Asia, one of the country's newest banks opened its first downtown branch in Panchikawatte, on September 12, 1997. The...

France's no 1 liquor company and also one of the world's leading wines and spirits companies. Pernod Ricard has joined...

ANZ Grindlays Bank, a leading financial institution who has been in Sri Lanka since 1881, are now in the process...

Shell Gas Sri Lanka Ltd which acquired the Colombo Gas Company in December 1995 has in the past year and...

Sri Lanka will reach another milestone in air travel when international giant British Airways switches its equipment from DC- 10...

Colby Demac established a new cooperation partner, Allied Trading & Engineering (Pvt) Limited, in Sri Lanka for the distribution of...

Waldock Mckenzie was ranked Sri Lanka's top investment bank by Asiamoney, in its inaugural 'Investment bank of the Year' awards....

Mobitel offered a special sponsorship package to the 6th Annual National Chamber of Exporters (NCE) Awards '97 which was held...

In response to the various allegations and comments made by Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), Suntel gave their views to the...

Following the recent Memorandum of Understanding signed in Colombo, British Telecom and Ceycom signed the agreement for the provision of...

A Commodity Approach Dilki Wijesuriya For a regional arrangement like South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), which is still...

Dilki Wijesuriya A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Ceylinco Limited and L&M Construction (Pte) Ltd., Singapore on Friday, August...

Next to heart disease, environmental pollution poses a great threat and hazard to humans as well as animal life. Many...

RG Hewabowala, chairman/ managing director, of Silicon Coatings (Pvt) Ltd., and manufacturers of the reputed 'Nippolac' brand. decorative and industrial...

Thailand has held Gems & Jewellery fairs for 20 years consecu tively due to Thailand being the center of trade...

Dilki Wijesuriya J Walter Thompson (JWT), Colombo, has been awarded the 'Asian Agency of the Year' title for the second...

Asiff Husein Ceylinco Seylan Developments Ltd., a member of the Ceylinco Group recently completed the superstructure of the Ceylinco Seylan...

The Munich Trade Fair organizers, in cooporation with NCC Management and development Co. Ltd, of Thailand, will organize 'Pollution Control...

Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand, Ansett Australia and Ansett International announced plans for the creation of the largest International alliance...

The eleventh joint meeting of the Sri Lanka-Japan and Japan-Sri Lanka Business Cooperation Committees was held on May 30 and...

In a recent traveler survey conducted by the Asian Wall Street Journal, Singapore Airlines was voted the top airline. In...

SilkAir has decided to acquire 18 Airbus aircraft (8 on firm order and 10 on option) to bolster its fleet....

The global market is at our door-step! One has to only step into a shop or supermarket to be confronted...

Colombo Rider, the newest locally assembled bus was launched to the market recently. The local partners for this multinational project...

Bitelli. the first Italian group and indisputably one of the world leaders in the field of road mechanics, entered the...

Pure Beverages, producers of Coca-Cola and a wide range of other soft drinks, is testing twoelectric powered Hysters E2.00XN1 Forklift...

Dorset Chamber of Commerce will fly in a trade delegation into Sri Lanka during the first week of June. The...

Standard Charted Bank becomes the latest player in telebanking with the launch of its automated telephone banking service which commenced...