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October 11, 20163min

Unilever Sri Lanka’s Foods Business, continuously striving to tempt their consumers with a unique flavor experience, participated at the recently concluded Eat Street CMB. The unique foodie event became the go to destination of the weekend for all things food.

“As Unilever, we are happy to have partnered with renowned Raffle Residence. As a Company that always looks for innovative and exciting ways to reach our consumers, this partnership was an ideal platform to provide a unique “foodie” experience. What better way to experience simple everyday dishes in new and exciting ways than infused with brands that we all grew up with such as Astra, Knorr and Marmite. We are confident that through this we will inspire consumers to experiment and celebrate these flavours in every out of home occasion,” said Makshoodh Meerasaibu, Marketing Director – Home Care, Foods, Refreshments and Water, Unilever Sri Lanka.

The Unilever Food stall had a variety of food such as Knorr maldive fish infused chickpea fritters, Knorr infused tempered chickpeas and prawn tempura as well as family favourites such as Astra tempered fried rice and cheesy Marmite kottu and Lipton iced teas paired with chocolate brownies and cookies.

Eat Street CMB is a large, family-friendly open-air street food festival held on Green path, Colombo 07. It featured an array of independent vendors selling various kinds of food, merchandise and art.

About Unilever: Unilever Sri Lanka is one of the biggest FMCG companies in Sri Lanka, with 29 market leading brands in categories such as Home Care, Personal Care and Foods. Established in Sri Lanka in 1938 with brands such as Sunlight, Lux and Pears, today Unilever has over 75 years of manufacturing history in Sri Lanka. Unilever’s corporate purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan sets out to decouple the company’s growth from environmental impact, while increasing its positive social impact. The Plan has three big goals that by 2020 will help improve people’s health and well-being, reduce the company’s environmental footprint, and enhance livelihoods across its value chain.


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October 5, 20163min

Regus Sri Lanka, the flexible workspace solutions provider, recently conducted a community event that focused on the Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SME’s) in Sri Lanka. The event, held under the theme “Understanding the Local Tax Law for SME’s”, was conducted at the Regus Business Centre located at the World Trade Centre in Colombo 01, the premier business address in town. A total of 17 SME’s from several industries including Food & Beverage, Mobile App Development, E-Commerce, Digital Services, Consultancy, Apparel, Hospitality & Tourism and Financial Services & Logistics participated at the event.

The event provided the support to entrepreneurs and SMEs looking to kick-start and or expand their businesses. The keynote address and presentation was delivered by renowned expert in the field of tax consultancy, Mr. Javed Mansoor of P & I Services who is also a Regus client.

During the event, Regus Sri Lanka also highlighted the various types of innovative, affordable services that SME’s can avail themselves to by coming to Regus. These include meeting rooms, co-working spaces, collaborative spaces, virtual offices and drop-in lounges. In Sri Lanka, Regus Offices are available in prime locations in Colombo and immediate suburbs.

Speaking about the event, Dr. Nirmal De Silva – Country Manager of Regus Sri Lanka stated, “Regus is committed to helping our customers both current and potential to explore their true prospects. Our business is focused on making our customers gain more success. Hence, community networking is an exciting new initiative that creates the platform for customers to learn, network and collaborate with each other. We see such networking events as an important part of helping SME’s Start-Ups and Entrepreneurships to reach their true potential.”

One of the participants at the session provided their views and cited, “It is great that such networking events are organized by Regus. We definitely interacted and learned a lot amongst similarly likeminded professionals at an event of this calibre.”

As with any business venture, SME’s also definitely have requirements for office space but now the good news is that individuals need not feel restricted to the traditional, costly offices that are being generally utilized. Through Regus’ flexible workspaces, anyone irrespective of size or nature of industry can easily access a wide variety of conveniently-located workspaces based on requirement and budget.

Regus is the world’s largest provider of flexible workspace solutions, with a network of 2,850 locations across 107 countries and over 1,000 cities, serving 2.3 million members. Regus customers include some of the most successful entrepreneurs, individuals and multi-billion dollar corporations in the world today.



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