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The company is one of the constituents of the S&P Sri Lanka 20 Index [2] and the Chevron Corporation holds a controlling stake (51.00%) of the company's stocks. [3] The company offers engine oils , gear oils , transmission oils under the brand name Havoline while offering diesel vehicle engine oils, industrial lubricants, coolants , brake ...
It is based on market capitalisation. Weighting of shares is conducted in proportion to the issued ordinary capital of the listed companies, valued at current market price (i.e. market capitalisation). The base year is 1985, and the base value of the index is 100. This is the longest and the broadest measure of the Sri Lankan Stock market.
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, commonly known as CEYPETCO (CPC), is a Sri Lankan oil and gas company. Established in 1962 and wholly owned by the Government of Sri Lanka, it is the largest oil company in Sri Lanka. It was formed in 1961 by nationalisation and expropriation of all private oil companies in Sri Lanka at the time of its formation. [4]
Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited; The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd; B.C.C. Lanka Ltd; B.O.C. Bank; CTB BUS; Lynx BUS; Building Materials Corporation Ltd
Name Financial Statistics in Billion's LKR Industry Revenue Profit Assets Market Cap. 1 Hayleys PLC: 436.8 14.8 446.3 61.6 Conglomerate: 2 Commercial Bank of Ceylon: 341.6 21.9 2,655.6 124.3 Banking: 3 LOLC Holdings: 337.7 21.8 1,739.7 188.9 Conglomerate 4 Hatton National Bank: 336.6 23.6 2,047.0 75.6 Banking: 5 John Keells Holdings: 280.8 12.1 ...
The company followed up this by changing its name to the current name in 2011. The company signed an agreement with the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology to develop a new herbicide formulation. The initiative is one of the first attempts to synthesize and formulate a herbicide locally in Sri Lanka. [5]
During Sri Lanka's 68th national independence day celebrations on 4 February 2016, the Tamil version of the Sri Lankan national anthem, "Sri Lanka Matha", was sung at an official government event for the first time since 1949. [59]
Ceylon was used until it was replaced by Sri Lanka in 1972; the honorific Sri has been added to Lanka, a place mentioned in ancient texts and assumed to refer the country between the 10th [7] and the 12th centuries CE. [3] Other ancient names used to refer to Sri Lanka included Serendip in Persian, Turkic (Serendib/Särändib) and Eelam in Tamil.