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CIC Holdings PLC is a Sri Lankan conglomerate holding company engaged in merchandising and manufacturing chemical products. The company was incorporated in 1964 and listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in the same year. Initially, the company was a part of Imperial Chemical Industries and prior to 2011, was known as Chemical Industries (Colombo ...
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [40] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [41]
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 10 April 2004: Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Promotion [38] [39] [40] 17 September 2004: Minister of Industry and Investment Promotion [41] Sarath Amunugama: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 22 August 2005 [42] Kumara Welgama: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 28 January 2007: Mahinda Rajapaksa: Minister of Industrial ...
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In 2012 the data from the European Chemical Industry Council shows that five European countries account for 71% of the EU's chemicals sales. These are Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Netherlands. [22] The chemical industry has seen growth in China, India, Korea, the Middle East, South East Asia, Nigeria and Brazil.
Rubber production in Sri Lanka commenced in 1876, with the planting of 1,919 rubber seedlings at the Henarathgoda Botanical Gardens in Gampaha. [1] The total extent under rubber in 1890 was around 50 ha (120 acres) and in the early 1900s it increased to around 10,000 ha (25,000 acres).
Sri Lanka-China relations started as soon as the People's Republic of China was formed in 1949. The two countries signed an important Rubber-Rice Pact in 1952. [248] Sri Lanka played a vital role at the Asian–African Conference in 1955, which was an important step in the crystallisation of the NAM. [249]
LMD 100 ranks listed companies in Sri Lanka by revenue annually. [10] Amari Wijewardene is the company's chairperson and a member of the Wijewardene family . Wijewardene's appointment as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in 2016 by her cousin, then prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was criticised as nepotism. [ 11 ]