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Category: Corporate
This section presents in-depth stories of prominent businesses, exploring their remarkable achievements, notable failures, and the personal journeys, decisions, and personalities behind them.
Leadership Beyond Cricket: Mahela Jayawardena to Captain Royal Colombo Golf Club
The Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC), one of Asia’s oldest and most storied sporting institutions, has entered a defining new phase with the formal appointment of Mahela Jayawardena as […]
Janashakthi’s Long March: From Insurance Pioneer to JXG’s Market Ambition
In the shifting landscape of Sri Lanka’s financial sector, few corporate stories reflect reinvention and strategic timing as clearly as that of the Janashakthi Group now […]
Asia Capital PLC: From the Brink of Closure to the Hope of Recovery
After nearly five years of legal battles, restructuring efforts, and complex negotiations, Asia Capital PLC one of the first Investment Banks founded in 1991 and listed on […]
From “Unlock Secure Growth” to Earnings Collapse: How WealthTrust’s IPO Narrative Unravelled Within One Quarter
When WealthTrust Securities Limited came to the market in December 2025, the IPO was marketed as a discounted opportunity to participate in a high-return, capital-efficient […]
PC House PLC: How Borrowed Growth and Broken Governance Brought Down a Retail Giant
The story of PC House PLC is one of the most sobering corporate episodes in Sri Lanka’s listed retail history. What began in 1997 as a single […]
CodeGen — The Quiet Export That Doesn’t Fit the Sri Lankan Stereotype
“While we argue about brain drain, CodeGen shows what happens when you keep the brains, sell the IP, and invoice the world.” Sri Lanka exports […]
The Rise and Fall of Touchwood Investments PLC: A Plantation Investment Cautionary Tale
The downfall of Touchwood Investments PLC remains one of the clearest cautionary episodes in Sri Lanka’s capital market history. Marketed as an innovative plantation-based investment model, the […]
Sena Yaddehige: Doctor with Remote Control
Chairman of one of the country’s largest listed conglomerates is at the centre of a high-profile legal issue that has raised questions about executive leadership […]
Vanik Incorporation PLC: From Market Darling to Bankruptcy
Once celebrated as a rising star on the Colombo Stock Exchange, Vanik Incorporation Ltd captured the optimism of Sri Lanka’s rapidly expanding financial sector in […]
Bimputh Finance PLC: A Listed Company That Ended in Bankruptcy Lessons We Cannot Ignore
The delisting and effective collapse of Bimputh Finance PLC marks one of the more sobering failures in Sri Lanka’s non-bank financial sector. Once a licensed […]
From Ceylon Tea to Cautionary Tale: The Rise and Fall of Ferntea Ltd
Once, Ferntea Ltd carried the quiet prestige of Ceylon tea into boardrooms and balance sheets. It was a name that sat comfortably at the intersection […]
MADE IN SRI LANKA Eng. Nahil Wijesuriya: The Long Game of Building
Sri Lanka has never suffered from a shortage of businessmen. What it has struggled to produce consistently are builders — individuals who begin with a […]
Dhammika Perera dazzles again – with Hayleys PLC
By Faraz Shauketaly There are two kinds of capital markets participants in Sri Lanka.Those who trade headlines — and those who compound value. Dhammika Perera belongs firmly […]
Pramuka Bank: From Collapse to Resurrection, and the Lessons Sri Lanka Cannot Ignore.
he collapse of Pramuka Savings and Development Bank remains one of the most defining moments in Sri Lanka’s modern financial history. It was not merely […]
Serendib Engineering Group PLC: From Listed “Turnaround Story” to Delisting
Serendib Engineering Group PLC (IDL) is a stark reminder of how a listed company’s fortunes can change dramatically when governance, capital discipline, and regulatory compliance […]