Business Notebook

by Inshala Samarasinghe Sri Lankan desiccated coconut exporters may have gained from the Philippines' current woes, but they remain unsure...

An innovative service, Telebanking, which enables the bank's clients to carry out a variety of banking transactions over the phone...

CTC Trading, now owned by Collettes, has progressed into the international market by opening two branch offices in Myanmar and...

Peter Sutch China National Aviation Corporation Group, CITIC Pacific, Swire Pacific and Cathay Pacific Airways(CPA) are pleased to announce that...

IBM Personal Computer Company announced plans to deliver and support Microsoft's Windows. NT Workstation 4.0 preloaded on selected IBM Commercial...

Plans to build a new 200-room teaching hospital in the premises of the Institute of Technological Studies at a cost...

A subsidiary of Bartercard International, Bartercard South Asia Ltd., embarked on Sri Lanka's first cashless trade exchange called Bartercard Lanka...

Unilever Ceylon, one of the leading manufacturers of detergents, foods and personal care products conducted a week long "Safety Week"...

The Galadari Hotel in Colombo has a facility ideally suited for businessmen in its "Executive Floor", an entire floor of...

Strategically situated at the crossroads between the East and the West, Singapore has fully exploited its prime geographical location to...

Bitelli s.p.a Italy, one of Europe's leading specialists in road building and maintenance equipment has ap pointed Allied Trading &...

The articles on "Investment" published in the August 1996 issue of Business Today were taken from "Sri Lanka Investment Policy...

The Sri Lanka Rubber Manufacturing and Export Corporation Ltd., (SLRMC), has launched an extended latex collection programme to support the...

The Ministry of Industrial Development has, with the aid of other related agencies, pepped up the match manufacturing industry which...

DIMO International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimo Auto Industries, recently exported a consignment of 50 buses to Nitol...

Rajah Abeyasinghe with Malcolm Godbold Hyster, the world's second largest manufacturer of lift trucks, has appointed Allied Trading and Engineering...

The Sri Lanka-Korea Economic Co-operation Committee (SLKE- CC) of the Ceylon Chamber of commerce is organizing a Business Promotion Mission...

The Radio Communications Division of Bartleet Electronics has been sold to the Red Alert Group of Companies. This is part...

A core element of the restructuring program of the Board Of Investment is the appointment of Manilal de Mel as...

The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) has been rated as the number one research house in the Indian Subcontinent according...

Mrs T. J. Bata admiring the trophy At the annual "Shoecon 1996" conference held in Italy, BATA, Sri Lanka literally...

Singapore Airlines' (SIA) Managing Director and Chief Executive Cheong Choong Kong signed a record order for up to 77 Boeing...

A reception was held at the Hotel Galadari recently to introduce Peter Davidse, the new General Manager of KLM Royal...

Singapore Airlines' (SIA) order for Rolls-Royce Trent engines for its B777 aircraft was cemented recently at a signing ceremony in...

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) and Northwest Airlines. (Northwest) have agreed on a transaction initiated by KLM, whereby, KLM will...

Mobitel and Lanka Pay Phones entered into an Memorandum of Understanding whereby, they would work together to install more payphone...

"Sunset Reef" an ambitious real-estate development backed by one of Sri Lanka's leading investment companies got-off to a flying start...

by Tharuka Dissanaike Dialog GSM is the newest arrival into the cellular phone market in Sri Lanka. Since it's first...

Hatton National Bank has launched yet another novel savings scheme a scheme that guarantees a regular monthly income to the...

The Board of Investment (BOI) has offered many concessions to investors whose projects exceed Rs.5 million in value. Tax holidays...