September 1996
A new teaching hospital in Colombo
Plans to build a new 200-room teaching hospital in the premises of the Institute of Technological Studies at a cost...
Bartercard – Sri lanka’s first cashless trade exchange
A subsidiary of Bartercard International, Bartercard South Asia Ltd., embarked on Sri Lanka's first cashless trade exchange called Bartercard Lanka...
Unilever Conducts Safety Week
Unilever Ceylon, one of the leading manufacturers of detergents, foods and personal care products conducted a week long "Safety Week"...
The Galadari – An Ideal Business Hotel
The Galadari Hotel in Colombo has a facility ideally suited for businessmen in its "Executive Floor", an entire floor of...
SHARED RESPONSIBILITY: A CASE FOR BANKS
by Hiran Perera Hiran Perera works for a leading bank, and contributes regularly to "The Island" newspaper. Today entrepreneurs, businessmen...
Singapore GATEWAY TO ASIA
Strategically situated at the crossroads between the East and the West, Singapore has fully exploited its prime geographical location to...
Air Lanka looks out for Strategic Partner
by Lucien Rajakarunanayake A major step forward in the direction of privatization was taken when the Public Enterprises Reform Commission...
Korea largest foreign investor in Lanka – President Kim
President Kim Young-Sam told a banquet held in honour of the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga that bilateral...
Korea a partner in Lanka’s progress and development – President Kumaratunge
President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge in her address at the Banquet held in her honour said that the Korean people had...
Top Italian road construction machinery specialist enters Sri Lankan market
Bitelli s.p.a Italy, one of Europe's leading specialists in road building and maintenance equipment has ap pointed Allied Trading &...
Board of Investment (BOI)
The articles on "Investment" published in the August 1996 issue of Business Today were taken from "Sri Lanka Investment Policy...
SLRMC broadens its ventures
The Sri Lanka Rubber Manufacturing and Export Corporation Ltd., (SLRMC), has launched an extended latex collection programme to support the...
Flame of hope for Match Industry
The Ministry of Industrial Development has, with the aid of other related agencies, pepped up the match manufacturing industry which...
Dimo bags big export order to Bangladesh
DIMO International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimo Auto Industries, recently exported a consignment of 50 buses to Nitol...
Hyster Products to be available in Sri Lanka
Rajah Abeyasinghe with Malcolm Godbold Hyster, the world's second largest manufacturer of lift trucks, has appointed Allied Trading and Engineering...