August 16, 2023
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4min
      Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 2023 – John Keells Properties has relaunched ‘Freedom Mortgage’ for TRI-ZEN Apartments through a strategic collaboration with Commercial Bank PLC. As part of this home financing solution, customers of John Keells Properties can pay 20% now and nothing more for the next 6 months. This will provide aspiring […]

April 26, 2023
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5min
      Earlier this month, Plasticcycle, the social entrepreneurship project of the John Keells Group, entered into an agreement with The Pearl Protectors, a youth-led marine conservation organization that works to protect marine life and the ocean ecosystem in Sri Lanka, to partner on a project to remove underwater marine litter from sensitive marine […]

April 4, 2023
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6min
      Aramtec, one of the UAE’s longest-established food service companies, evolves by delivering on a rolling strategy to become cloud-based and digitally empowered by signing up for SAP’s latest private cloud edition, RISE With SAP, together with John Keells IT as the Strategic Partner to drive this key business transformation. Maintaining offices in […]

December 8, 2022
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9min
      The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) celebrated excellence in corporate reporting at the TAGS Awards 2022 on Tuesday by honouring leading corporates, multinationals, small entities, and non-profit organisations for producing insightful and transparent annual reports amidst increasing expectations from multiple stakeholders, including investors. Top conglomerate Hayleys PLC […]

November 17, 2022
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5min
      John Keells X (JKX) is a startup accelerator and open innovation programme that has been helping startups obtain funding, receive training and the right connections to scale and grow into successful companies. JKX recently conducted “JKX Accelerate” Demo Day, following the Pre-Accelerator programme for startups. The event saw 12 startups pitching to […]

June 21, 2022
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5min
        John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) announced it will raise the equivalent of USD 75 million of foreign direct investment by way of a private placement of Sri Lankan Rupee (LKR) denominated unlisted convertible debentures (“debentures”) to certain controlled affiliates of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, headquartered in Canada (collectively, “Fairfax”). The transaction […]

June 9, 2022
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6min
        Jehan Perinpanayagam CEO of Infomate and Vice President John Keells Holdings was appointed the Chairman, Member Network Panel of ACCA Sri Lanka for the year 2022/ 2023, at the recently held Annual General Meeting at the Hilton Colombo Residencies. Jehan counts over 25 years of experience including 17 years in the IT/ BPM industry and  is […]

March 11, 2022
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6min
        08 March 2022, Colombo: Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts proudly launched its latest sustainability initiative, “Cinnamon Rainforest Restoration Project” in collaboration with Ruk Rakaganno (The Tree Society of Sri Lanka), Forest Department Sri Lanka and John Keells Foundation, to restore a degraded 50-acre plot over a period of three years after which […]


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