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Lanka Bell ties up with AAI

Lanka Bell Limited a leading telecommunication provider in Sri Lanka entered into a MoU, with Asian Alliance Insurance (AAI). Lanka Bell getting on board as a communication partner for voice communication will enable Asian Alliance Insurance to strengthen the service provided to its prestigious and growing clientele.

Asian Alliance Insurance is one of the leading composite insurers in the industry providing innovative insurance solutions. RAM Rating Ltd. has assigned a BBB- Rating to AAI underlining the claims paying ability (CPA), based on the soundness of the company’s operations and financial strength. AAI is committed to serve its potential and existing policyholders by assisting them to “protect the things they love” while honouring the fundamentals of insurance.

The only wholly Sri Lankan owned company in the telecommunication sector, Lanka Bell is the largest CDMA Fixed Line’ provider in the country with a subscriber base of 1.3 million and also the second largest fixed telecommunication operator. Lanka Bell continues to make substantial investments to take its technology and services to all geographic regions and all segments of the market in Sri Lanka.

“This strategic tie-up will no doubt add value to the professional and personalized service extended to our customers. We are happy to have Lanka Bell partnering us as a voice telecommunication provider to serve our clients who belong to many walks of life and business sectors”, said Asian Alliance Insurance PLC Director and CEO Ramal Jasinghe.

Raigam wins National Quality award

Raigam received the National Quality Merit Award at the 16th National Quality Awards Ceremony held at the BMICH recently.

Sri Lanka National Quality Awards is an event organized by the Sri Lanka Standards Institution. The awards scheme is based on Malcolm Baldridge Criteria for Performance Excellence. The SLSI held this event for the 16th consecutive occasion.

Starting almost fifteen years ago, from very humble beginnings Raigam has blossomed in to a giant institution of national importance providing more than 1000 direct job opportunities and innumerable indirect opportunities for people of the area to make a living. Having its genesis in the production and marketing of soya products Raigam soon ventured in to diversification by branching out to the production of biscuits, coffee, ayurveda products, salt, sanitary towels and recently cosmetics.

Throughout its very successful tenure, Raigam has placed tremendous value and importance on continual improvement of quality, in the raw material it uses as well as its production processes. This may be cited as one of the major reasons for the continued successes that Raigam has been having in its business career. This is amply borne out by the numerous awards Raigam and its higher management have won during its relentless march towards excellence. The major awards won are FCCISL Platinum Award for Entrepreneur of the Year - 2005 for CEO - Dr Ravi Liyanage, Productivity Award - National productivity Secretariat - 2005 CIMA Pinnacle Award for Business Leader of the Year -2006 for CEO - Dr Ravi Liyanage and Sooriya Singha Certification - 2007.

Abans launch Toshiba netbooks

With Harman and Kardon speakers:

Abans, authorized distributor for Toshiba in Sri Lanka, recently launched two models of Toshiba Netbooks, NB520 and NB505 to become the world's first netbooks embedded with state-of-the-art Harman and Kardon speakers.

Toshiba's NB520 and NB505 series offer a magic sound experience through the world's smallest Harman/Kardon speakers in a slim and stylish casing and meets a yet unfulfilled demand in the netbook market. Despite its diminutive size, the NB520 packs a powerful sonic punch with its 2 watts Harman and Kardon stereo speakers, giving a vibrant bass and crystal clear trebles quality to the sound, not normally associated with netbooks. They support Dolby Advanced Audio to provide a natural sound experience while listening to music or watching videos in HD quality (720p) on the netbook. Coupled with Sleep and Music features, the NB520 allows consumers who store their favourite music tracks on a MP3 player to connect it to the notebook and listen to the music through the netbooks advanced Harman/Kardon speakers without requiring to turn the PC on.

The Slim NB505 series offers users everyday computing consumption needs. As the second member in Toshiba's new netbook family, the NB505 series is targeted at users who appreciate a slim, mobile device with basic computing consumption features at an affordable price. Despite this, the NB505 is one of the thinnest and lightest netbooks in the market featuring an Intel Atom dual-core processor.

Apart from Toshiba's exclusive NB520 and NB505 netbooks with Harman and Kardon stereo speakers, Abans also have the Toshiba NB500 series which feature 3x USB ports, integrated webcam, and Bluetooth V3.0 High Speed which offers up to 8x faster data transfer. The NB520 series also comes with USB Sleep and Charge feature whereby users can charge their electronic devices without turning on the PC. Toshiba's exclusive value-added software tools like the Toshiba Real Time and Toshiba Bulletin Board are also pre-installed in the NB500 series. These interfaces help users to locate recent files easily and the latter allows them to customize and manage their daily activities. To top it off, it features Power-Savng Eco-Utility software which helps to conserve the environment by lowering power consumption and giving the netbook a longer battery life.

Abans is the authorized service provider for Toshiba Netbooks in Sri Lanka with an islandwide service network. The new Toshiba NB Series netbooks are now available at all Abans Showrooms islandwide.

Noritake opens showroom

Noritake set up a new show room at the first floor of Ceramics Building Colombo to cater to the hospitality industry recently.

Noritake marketing officials said that as the tourism and hotel industry is booming there is a huge demand for hotel equipment and Noritake porcelain is one of the main items. There is a good response from the day one for the products at this show room from hoteliers and corporate clients.