March 1997

Forbes magazine, founded 80 years ago, has always regaled eager readers around the world with some of America's greatest business...

Sri Lanka, which already has fundamentally a sound investment policy and offers a set of attractive incentives, plans to strengthen...

If you have ever seen the bouncing heads of cartoon characters that roam in the Internet Web sites, and letters...

You wake up in the morning a groggy wreck, but one touch of the razor's blade turns you into Superman....

The Presidential Task Force for the Southern Area Development (SAD) was established on September 15, 1995, and the South ern...

Air New Zealand welcomed its newest marketing representative for Sri Lanka - Worldlink Air Services (Pvt) Ltd at a signing...

Microsoft, GTE and Trade Compass announced the formation of Export America '97 a broad- based initiative designed to empower US...

The Colombo Hilton opened its seventh restaurant, the Moghul Ghar, which is located at the entrance to the hotel's Lotus...

United Tractor & Equipment Ltd., has launched the newest Scania 4-series into the Sri Lankan market. The 4-series which won...

Asia's fastest-growing regional research company, Asia Market Intelligence (AMI), today announced the launch of a new state- of-the-art system for...

Q: What is GST ? A: GST or the Goods and Services Tax is a tax on the domestic consumption...

Stop talking and start working', has been an old adage for over a century splashed all over company corridors, cafeterias,...

The article in the last issue laid the foundation for relationship marketing and argued how it was different from other...

The market, as predicted, appreciated during the month of January by a modest 2.5%, but during the first three weeks...

Eighty percent of our conversation about people at our work place, whether they be our supervisors, peers or subordinates revolve...

In the business world across the globe there is a distinct breed known as corporate executives whom we love. All...

In order to avoid a repetition of last year's power crisis, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has been set certain...

This month I've compiled a few business tales (said to be true life) from around the world. Here's one for...

Arbitration is a process by which parties voluntarily refer their disputes to an impartial third person, an arbitrator, selected by...

• How did Mashreq Bank start out? This was known as the Bank of Oman. It was incorporated in 1967...

He'll deny it, of course, but any adman worth his fifteen percent secretly believes those marketing types can't tell the...

Inspite of a power crisis, total blackout and two major terrorist attacks in Colombo during 1996, the Advertising Industry has...