Business News

Emirates inspires you to ‘Be there’

Thursday, 28 May 2015 16:08

Emirates, a global connector of people, passions and places, has launched ‘Be There’, a global campaign that celebrates curiosity, wanderlust, and the adventure that comes with travel.

For a second successive year, 300 children representing every district of Sri Lanka came together in Colombo recently at an educational tour of the city and some of its principal landmarks, courtesy of Ceylinco Life.

A longtime sponsor of Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebrations (Avurudu Uthsawaya) across Sri Lanka, fan-favourite Elephant House took its involvement in these celebrations to a whole new level in 2015, supporting 35 national, regional and rural events, in conjunction with Shaa FM, Sirasa TV, ITN and Rythm FM.

A special Savings Account designed to support micro entrepreneurs and promote financial inclusivity to this segment has been launched by the Commercial Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka’s largest private bank.

www.guru.lk -- the most popular online learning website in Sri Lanka, has expanded its ‘100 day self-improvement’ programme series with the addition of a new module ‘Think like your boss’ by Kishu Gomes, Managing Director/CEO of Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC.

The leading smartphone brand Huawei, and Singer Sri Lanka PLC. the country’s number one brand and smartphone marketer and the exclusive national distributor for Huawei, recognized its top retail partners in the country at a gala function held at Waters Edge recently.

CDS signs MoU with NSDL India

Wednesday, 27 May 2015 01:15

The Central Depository System (Pvt) Ltd (CDS), a fully owned subsidiary of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Securities Depository (Pvt) Ltd of India (NSDL), for the purpose of knowledge sharing in the area of depository services.

The National Mobile Service Provider, Mobitel recently partnered with Rotary and the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau in the ‘One Million Tree Stories’ project, which aims to plant one million trees in the country.

Lotteries innovator Mahapola Lotto, in its first sales conference, has honoured its top sales people from across Sri Lanka recently.

More than 750 Sri Lankans resident in Bahrain were treated to a multifaceted entertainment show sponsored by Commercial Bank recently as part of its efforts to promote its remittance services in that country.