Sri Lanka Retailers’ Association develops industry strategy forward

From left: Abans Deputy Director Dinesh Perera, Healthguard Pharmacy GM Retail Infiyaz Ali, NoLimit General Manager A.H. Amjad, DSI Director Kaushalya Perera, Sensei International Partner Ranjan De Silva, Cargills Foods Company CEO Sidath Kodikara, Fashion Bug Director Shabier Subian, Lanka Sathosa Chairman and Independent Facilitator/Moderator Rohantha Athukorale, Cool Planet CEO Rizwi Thaha, Hameedia Group Deputy MD Hussain Sadique, Keells Super-Jaykay Marketing CEO Charitha Subasinghe, Laugfs Holdings Director and Taprobane Holdings Group MD Muralee Prakash, Connect Network Retailers Leonard Michael Perera

Not present for photograph: Singer Sri Lanka Group CEO Asoka Pieris and Swarnamahal Jewellers CEO Ajith Amarasekera

Sri Lanka Retailers’ Association (SLRA) was recently incorporated as a company limited by guarantee and the special name was approved by Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen under the provisions of the Companies Act No. 7 of 2007.

SLRA pioneering founder membership includes leading business establishments in diverse retail sectors in Sri Lanka such as Abans PLC, Cargills Foods Company, Cool Planet, DSI, Hameedia, Healthguard Pharmacy Ltd., Keells Super, Laugfs Supermarkets, No Limit, Swarnamahal Jewellers Ltd., and Singer Sri Lanka.

The founder directors of the company cum office bearers of the Executive committee (ExCo) of the Association are as follows: President/Chairman: Hussain Sadique – Deputy MD, Hameedia Group, Vice President/Director: Murali Prakash – Director, Laugfs Holdings, Vice President/Director/National Convener: Sidath Kodikara – CEO, Cargills Foods Company, General Secretary/Director: Infiyaz Ali – GM Retail, Healthguard Pharmacy Ltd., Asst. Secretary/Director: Dinesh Perera – Deputy Director Abans PLC, Treasurer/Director: Charitha Subasinghe, Keells Super, CEO Jaykay Marketing Services Ltd., Asst. Treasurer/Director: Ajith Amarasekera – CEO, Swarnamahal Jewellers Ltd.

Recently, the SLRA held a Strategy Review session facilitated and moderated by renowned marketer, Dr. Rohantha Athukorale who is the Chairman of Lanka Sathosa with the participation of CEOs and directors of member companies to brainstorm and revisit its vision, mission, and objectives and to plan the way forward of SLRAs annual calendar activities in 2016/17.

Vision of the Association is ‘Achieving Retail Excellence’ and the Mission is to ‘Be the Voice of the Retail industry in Sri Lanka’, connecting organised modern retailers to enhance quality of life of consumers is the purpose and motto of the association.

The Sri Lanka Retail Forum will be one of the key events under association’s annual calendar of activities which will be a platform for global and local retailers to meet with the participation of foreign speakers and delegates.

Members of the Retail industry are invited to participate in the Association’s activities. For more information, please contact: Sri Lanka Retailers’ Association Secretariat: No. 30, Amarasekera Mawatha, Colombo 5. Email: [email protected] or Mr. Leonard Perera, Retailers - Connect 0727 354 880.