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| Tuesday, 13 January 2004 |
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Business in brief Indices decrease slightly The Colombo Bourse Indices decreased slightly yesterday with the All Share Price Index coming down to 1,161.4 points from 1,164.9 points on Friday and Milanka to 2,111 points from 2,112.2. The TRI on All Share Price Index was 1.161.7 points and TRI on Milanka was 2.110 points. Turnover at the end of the was Rs 112.6 million, compared to Rs 377.35 million on Friday. Domestic purchases for the day were Rs 92.78 million and foreign purchases Rs 19.81 million. Large parcels of shares of SLT, Asian Hotels and JKH were sold during yesterday's trading. The top five gainers for the day were York Arcade, DIMO, Hunters, Kelani Cables and Touchwood. CIM Talking Point on Lanka: new Horizons, New Hope CIM Sri Lanka will launch "CIM Talking Point with HSBC" with a presentation by Ms. Janaki Kuruppu on "Sri Lanka: New Horizons, New Hope" on January 29 at Hotel Intercontinental, Colombo. CIM Talking Point with HSBC will be a quarterly evening meeting organised by CIM Sri Lanka, where topics of interest to marketers and the business community in general will be covered. "We are happy to have Ms. Janaki Kuruppu, Managing Director, AC Nielsen Lanka talking on new horizons and new hope, something all Sri Lankans have conceived with the continuing peace process' said Lasantha Wickremasooriya, Chairman, CIM Sri Lanka. Kuruppu said "After twenty years of war, we have had peace for almost 20 months. If we, as Sri Lankans, do not realise what an opportunity we have in our hands and do whatever's in our power to sustain this, probably the last chance that we have got as a country, we will regret it forever". As an agency that works closely with the leading marketers in Sri Lanka and in over 100 countries AC Nielsen is in a position to take an independent view of many industries from the consumer as well as the retail aspect. |
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