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The company also manages rubber and tea plantations. [2] The company was incorporated in 1976 and listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in 1983. The company is one of the components of the S&P Sri Lanka 20 Index. [3] Sri Lankan conglomerate, Hayleys is the effective controlling shareholder of Dipped Products.
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).
DSI Samson Group is a Sri Lankan family owned conglomerate established in 1962. It has over 29 subsidiaries and is a leading manufacture of footwear and rubber products in Sri Lanka. It has over 29 subsidiaries and is a leading manufacture of footwear and rubber products in Sri Lanka.
Richard Piries Company is the market leader and the pioneer in the tyre Retread industry of Sri Lanka and commands a market share of nearly 60%. In addition to that, it has become the largest Retreader in the whole of South Asia which is a remarkable achievement for a Sri Lankan company.
The single largest investment in the 140-plus year history of Hayleys (and the largest acquisition of a public listed company at the time) was the 10.8 billion rupee controlling stake of Singer Sri Lanka in 2017, [32] followed by the buying over of the five-star Ceylon Continental Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka (now known as The Kingsbury) in 2010.
Sri Lanka Rubber Manufacturing Export Co. Ltd; STC General Trading Company Ltd; Thamankaduwa Agro Fertilizer Co. Ltd; Other institutions. Plantations.
The rubber interest of the Carson and Company traded in 1910 in London Stock Exchange with a capital of 1.5 million sterling pounds thus making it the largest rubber business of the country at that time. [4] The Carson and Company converted to a limited liability company in 1913, and the merger with Cumberbatch and Company happened in 1947. [5]
The current chairman of Aitken Spence is Harry Jayawardena.He is the founder director and current chairman/managing director of the Stassen Group of Companies – a diversified group in exports and import trade, the chairman of Lanka Milk Foods (CWE) PLC, Browns Beach Hotels PLC, Balangoda Plantations PLC, Madulsima Plantations PLC, Melstacorp PLC, Ambewela Livestock Company Ltd, Lanka Bell ...