December 1996

A collection of Business Humour from around the world There are three things that we can all certainly expect in...

Marketing is likely to play a critical role in meeting the challenge that the garment industry will face, once the...

Speak to any businessman today and there is bound to be a moan about the drop in sales. Inflation means...

The Cricket Club Café, a new concept in the local hospitality and restaurant trade, has been drawing crowds since its...

Exercise is no longer a mania, it is accepted as an essential component of a healthy lifestyle. There have been...

by Manori Wijesekera Mack Contrary to current belief, there are still those in the commercial sector who view the capital...

A fully equipped auditorium built at a cost of 3 million and at the request of Slimline (Pvt) Limited's Managing...

Hilton International signed an agreement in Male recently with the Maldives Crown Co. Private Ltd., to convert the 100 bungalows...

"Our philosophy is the latest programming with a contemporary attitude", said Mahen Perera, Marketing Director of the EAP Edirisinghe Group,...

A leading business group in the US, Emerging Market Partnership (EMP), will assist the Sri Lankan government in promoting investments...

Avalon Paper Trades, a member of the Avalon Group of Companies, has been in the field of paper and allied...

Augustus de Hoedt is hardly your typical Sri Lankan name. But somehow it is a name that perfectly fits the...

How satisfied is the corporate sector with the Budget '97? Business Today did an opinion poll among a cross-section of...

The bottoming of the Stock Market has awakened some highly innovative people into thinking that devaluation or rather depreciation of...

HANJUNG'S BACKGROUND Hanjung was established in 1962 when the South Korean economy began surging forward and is today a giant...

The Rowland Company is the first multinational Public Relations Agency to be set up in Sri Lanka. Inaugurated on the...

It seems to be the catch. word of the '90s. Every one talks about it, every company tries to safe...

During my twenty odd years of working for someone else, I have had my performance evaluated by all sorts of...

What is advertising? One of the best definitions of advertising has been, "the ability to sell a freezer to an...

Overcoming the feeling of inadequacy is the key to Personality Development. Successful people are not any different from any one...

I s Sri Lanka ready for Wide Area Computer Networking (WAN)?" was the topic selected by Dr Abhaya S Induruwa,...

The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) Sri Lanka Branch held its third annual awards ceremony on the 14th of November...

The garment industry in Sri Lanka is certainly moving in the right direction. Its products are accepted throughout the world,...

The market maintained its positive outlook seen in September and October through to November, al though a marginal dip was...