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| Sunday, 19 March 2006 |
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CIM Lanka produces three world prize winners The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Sri Lanka Region created history this year by being the first overseas region to produce three world prize winners within one year. Three students from Sri Lanka secured the highest marks in the world for their individual subjects. Sri Lanka produced the first prize winner in 1987/88 when Ranjan de Silva, the popular Marketing Strategist and Corporate Trainer won the prize for Analysis and Decision. Sri Lanka secured this honour a second time in 1998/99, when Miss. Samanthi Yamaya Kariyawasam won the world prize for Management Information for Marketing and Sales. In 2004, Ravi Shankar Kamalendiran won the world prize for Marketing Management in Practice - a subject that had the lowest pass rate worldwide but Sri Lanka's Kamalendiran achieved an 'A' grade to win the prize. History was created this year by Miss Dilhara Seimon who was awarded the world prize for Strategic Marketing Decisions and by Miss Shemani Jayasinghe and Miss Ishani Rajapakshe who were jointly awarded the world prize for Strategic Marketing in Practice, for 2005. While a world prize winner is selected for this prestigious award only if he/she achieves the highest score in the world it is a requisite that this score is clearly an 'A' grade pass. The education team of The Chartered Institute of Marketing, Sri Lanka Region said that, "this was indeed a very rare achievement for Sri Lanka to have secured three out of the few world prizes awarded this year. The Chartered Institute of Marketing which is the largest professional body for marketing in the world boasts of students spread over 36 countries and of branches in eight countries. More than 60,000 students sit for examinations on an annual basis and 12000 of these students are from outside the UK. |
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