AB Mauri holds annual awards ceremony

By A.B. Francis

The annual awards ceremony of AB Mauri Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. was held at the Villa Ocean View Hotel, Wadduwa recently.

The colourful ceremony was highlighted by a gala musical and variety entertainment which was attended by the office staff and the media. Everyone present enjoyed the proceedings and the well organised event which had been planned by the members of the staff, wholeheartedly.

The Managing Director S.B.M. Padmasiri graced the occasion as the chief guest.  Asela Herath (Business Manager- Bakery), Amal Weerawardena (General Manger), Jayantha Rajapakse (Consumer Business

 Manger) were present at the ceremony and distributed the awards to the winners.

Asela Herath, a product of St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota was a fine cricketer during his school days and had the distinction of playing with his schoolmate Muttiah Muralitharan, the world’s best spinner and record holder.

AB Mauri Lanka is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods, UK which is a diversified International Food, Ingredients and Retail Group, with sales of USD.14billion and 96, 000 employees in 44 countries.

The ABF group operates through four strategic business segments such as Sugar & Agriculture, Retail, Grocery and Ingredients.

ABF Ingredients is a group of companies focusing on high value ingredients such as enzymes, yeast extract, specialty lipids, emulsifiers, cereals specialties and protein food and non food applications.

AB Mauri operates globally in yeast and bakery ingredients products with 50 plants in 28 countries under the brand names of Mauripan, Prime and Fleischmann’s.

The Group markets leading brands such as Ovaltine, Silver Spoon Sugar, Twinings Tea, Mazola Oil, Kingsmill and  Ryvita .   

In the process of the expansion of AB Mauri Lanka business in Sri Lanka, we have just completed the fully equipped Bakery Training School.