Royal Cashews clinch Gold Award at NCE Export Awards – 2019 for third consecutive year

NCE Gold Award was received by Royal Cashews Managing Director Dr. Ruwan Wathugala. General Manager Nimal Ananda and New Product Development and Research Manager Ruwan Lahiru Danthanarayana also present 

Dr. Ruwan Wathugala, Managing Director of Royal Cashews group with his team 

Royal Cashews, leading cashew processing and exporting company in Sri Lanka was conferred with the Gold Award at NCE Export Awards – 2019. 

The National Gold Award for the ‘Fresh and Processed Agricultural Export Crops’ category was awarded to the company at the 27th edition of the annual National Export Awards organised by the Sri Lanka National Export Board. The award ceremony was held at the Shangri-La hotel, Colombo.

In the previous two years Royal Cashews secured two NCE Export Awards.

Royal Cashews Managing Director Dr. Ruwan Wathugala, speaking of the newest Gold Award said: “Royal Cashews as a leading cashew processing and exporting company in Sri Lanka is honoured to have this NCE national Gold Award in 2019. We bring significant foreign exchange by exporting cashew products and this NCE national award for the third consecutive year is recognition and an endorsement that came our way.”

He also said: “Royal Cashews has standard certification ISO 14001:2015 EMS on international green-oriented processing, and ISO 22000, HACCP and GMP standard certifications on standardised food processing. Thus we are the only A to Z cashew processing company in Sri Lanka that has been bestowed with all the standard certificates needed.” 

He added: “We use world-class technology to produce Royal Cashews. Our R&D department has introduced various new mouth-watering flavours to cater to the global market. Thus we export ‘Royal Cashew’ products to many countries and ours has become a preferred brand globally.”

Dr. Wathugala also said: “Royal Cashews was commissioned in 1999. We conquered Sri Lankan and foreign markets in a short stint. Winning awards of this nature contributes to our success story.”

Royal Cashews having 20 outlets is the largest network to sell cashew products in Sri Lanka. These outlets offer hygienic cashew products to local and foreign clients that are manufactured with cutting-edge technology. 

Royal Cashews outlets are situated at Crescat (Colombo-3), World Trade Centre, Liberty Plaza, Arcade (Independence Square), K-Zone (Ja-Ela and Moratuwa), Kandy City Centre (Kandy), Southern Highway (Welipenna stop), Kiribathgoda, Nugegoda, Galle, Ward City (Gampaha) and Borella and Orion City (Colombo). 

With the introduction of ‘Online Delivery System’ by the company recently, customers were offered with the opportunity to order products online and get fresh Royal Cashew products delivered to their doorsteps.

Royal Cashews products come in diverse mouth-watering tastes. These products are marketed with 19 tastes in 682 types of containers and in 101 containers specially made for gifting purposes. 

Royal Cashews products are exported to Malaysia, Japan, USA, UK, New Zeeland, Germany, Australia, Austria, Maldives and Saudi Arabia. 

Royal Cashews brand has won many awards, accolades and endorsed with standard certifications. In addition to being recognised for three consecutive years with the NCE Export Award, Royal Cashews has won Pro Food 2009 and 2011 awards for nature-friendly packaging, MACO business excellence award, Lanka Star President’s Gold Award and ASIASTAR 2015 award for Green packaging.