January 1997

The Ceylon Association of Ships' Agents or CASA as it is known was formed in 1966, to replace the...

Outdoor advertising is as old as history itself but became commercialised only about 45 years ago. The pioneers in...

There is no reason why Sri Lanka cannot be another Singapore in the next 10 years, with its strategic...

Ammeraal is a Dutch based organisation which specializes in the development and manufacture of process and conveyor belting for...

National Asset Management Limited (NAMAL) is the manager of the National Equity Fund (NEF), Sri Lanka's first unit trust....

The Pay Phone Co. Ltd., operators of the Super Card pay phone system, has introduced a new IDD link...

The Overseas Trust Bank, (OTB) which has been serving its Sri Lankan clientele for the past 15 years, moved...

Books on management written by successful managers tend to be very expensive because managers think that their experiences are...

Ian Hardy Sri Lanka's ongoing corporate war, perhaps the most controversial and acrimonious todate pitting two of the country's...

After stuffing your face this holiday season, you might be ruefully looking at yourself in the mirror, and noting...

"There is no shortage of energy on this planet. There is sadly a great shortage of intelligence". (Buckminster Fuller-...

Iam busy at something I detest so much the business of performance assessment. This time it's not to do...

The market has been bearish during the last few weeks mainly on account of retail selling due to profit...

The ultimate yuppie (young up wardly-mobile professional) accessory, the Filofax personal organizer, has arrived in Sri Lanka. 1996 sees...

Steve Hollman, Director Prokart Centre, with the first clients and staff The Colombo ProKart Centre, which opened to the...

Repositioning For the Next Millennium' was the theme of the 17th National Conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants...

If the talk in the media is anything to go by, then it seems that a highly dubious privatisation...

It certainly was a pleasant surprise for the Colombo Stock Market when the initial public offer (IPO) of Lion...

Anusha David Jayaratne, Managing Director, Headlines Limited "Client satisfaction is very important and the key to success is that...

An in-house sales training session was going on. The Marketing Manager, one of the most famous marketing professionals in...

he German Cultural Institute in Colombo in association with the Lanka International Forum on Environment and Sustainable Development (LIFE),...

A common word that links together everyone who has had a heart attack is fear. All at once we...

Rates, but at a high environmental cost. Such development may not be sustainable in the long term, because environmental...