Lucky Lanka Milk’s Lal crowned as ‘Sri Lankan Entrepreneur of the Year 2011’

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Lal Keerthi Gunawardena, Chairman and Managing Director of the Lucky Lanka Milk Processing Company, Kamburupitiya was crowned as the ‘Sri Lankan Entrepreneur of the Year 2011; at the National Awards ceremony held at Cinnamon Grand Colombo on 23 November 2011 organised by Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka (FCCISL)

FCCISL also the conferred ‘Hall of Fame’ award on M.P. Wickramasinghe, Chairman of Ceylon Biscuits Group (CBL) for his outstanding made to the national economy by creating CBL Empire.

The ‘National Gold Award’ was awarded to Sujeewa Palliyaguruge, Managing Director Oak-Ray Group in Kandy. There were 27 national awards been awarded to entrepreneurs from small to extra large categories representing various line of business from different parts of the country.

This is the 16th edition of the annual event witch commenced in 1995. The selection of ‘Sri Lankan Entrepreneur of the Year; denotes not only the flagships of the FCCISL work programme but also the most prestigious and coveted business awards of the calender of the chamber movement in Sri Lanka,

The unique feature of this award scheme is that the receients of awards are being selected on both at provincial and nation levele which is particularly attracted to small and medium scale entrepreneur who have to undergo numerous difficulties in achieving excellence in business.Thus this programme is a tribute paid to the local entrepreneur by the nation.

Entrepreneurs are the cornestones of a vibrant and booming economy.Their unique blend of skills constitute a non quantifiable national and needs to be recognised, rewarded and nurtured for socio economic advancement and sustainable develpoment.

Dialog Axiata PLC,HNB Assurance,Bank of Ceylon and Nolimit were exclusive guarantos of this prestigious event,while Wijeya Newspapers,Thinakural,Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corperation,Neth FM,BatesStrategic Alliance,AV Productions,Cinnamon Grand Colombo and Flexport were partners.