Dankotuwa Porcelain bags Gold

Dankotuwa continued its winning streak of export awards by winning a Gold Award at the National Chamber of Exporters (NCE) Awards ceremony held recently.

Dankotuwa has consistently won awards for exports since 1989 and has an award under its belt almost every year since 1989.

It won the pinnacle of NCE awards in 1996, 1997 and in 2004 when it won the most coveted ‘Sri Lanka’s most outstanding exporter of the year’ award for three years. Dankotuwa is perhaps the only company that has won this topmost award thrice and is the only tableware company that has won the most number of export awards. In 2005 it also won the top award ‘Sri Lankan Exporter of the Year under the Presidential Export Awards Scheme.

Although facing severe competition from many overseas producers in Bangladesh, Indonesia and China, Dankotuwa has always responded quickly to changing market demands and has won back the markets. With the more recent and more severe downturn in the traditional markets of Europe and USA and the turnaround in those markets taking time, the company is now focusing on the region especially in India, South Africa and in the Middle East.

The purchasing power of the individuals representing the newly rich segment in these countries is rapidly increasing. They are favouring up market, quality products to maintain the difference in fine dining and table setting.