Colombo Pharmacy opens state-of-the-art store

The Colombo Pharmacy Company Plc, a subsidiary of Environmental Resources Investment PLC (ERI), opened its newly-designed state-of-the-art pharmacy last week amidst religious ceremonies.

Attended by the Board of Directors, invitees and staff members it was a moment of pride for the 98-year-old company to see its development plans come to fruition under new management.

Colombo Pharmacy was acquired by ERI a little over a year ago and has demonstrated its significant potential in the fast growing health care and pharmaceutical sector by revamping the pharmacy at Union Place into a modern state-of-the-art facility.

The modern interior only compliments the expertise of the almost 100 year old company where a wealth of knowledge and experience is retained by way of their dedicated long standing staff in servicing their valuable customers.

“We are delighted on the occasion of the opening of the re-designed Colombo Pharmacy just next door to its original location. This development was one of the first strategic actions we worked on seeing the potential that the pharmacy has for growth. We are very optimistic of the long term positive results that the current developments would bring,” ERI Chairman Lalith Heengama said.

“We look forward to completing the rest of the refurbishment by March 2012 which will see the opening of flagship stores of some of the group companies namely, Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC and Ceylon Leather Products PLC and a service centre of DNH Financial. The complex will also have an outdoor restaurant and many other attractive features,” he added.

“I am privileged to be a part of this strategic development of the Colombo Pharmacy PLC and take pride along with my colleagues in seeing this project to completion,” said Nilushi Kasturiarachchi, the recently-appointed General Manager of the Colombo Pharmacy.

The redesign was entirely done under the expert professional design and direction of reputed Chartered Architects, Design Cues.

Colombo Pharmacy PLC owns and operates City Dispensary and IC Drugs Pharmacies and is one of the oldest public quoted companies in the Pharmaceutical trade in Sri Lanka. Colombo Pharmacy has served both customers as well as the medical profession with reliability, dependability and excellence for almost 100 years.

The pharmacies have become a household name amongst both the medical profession as well as consumers with their endeavor to be the most caring and dependable pharmacies in Sri Lanka.

The parent company ERI is known for identifying growth opportunities and companies with a significant potential to grow in the manufacturing, IT/infrastructure, financial and other strategic sectors.

ERI constantly strives to be a socially responsible business entity which firmly believes in the positive and far-reaching effects of good governance policies and provides financial management, strategic guidance and strong management discipline to help make good companies even better.