Business Briefs

Amana Takaful Insurance teams up with Medi-Calls

Amana Takaful Insurance, in keeping with its ambition to convert health-care insurance to a system that makes medical attention affordable to all citizens recently entered into a strategic tie-up with Medi-Calls - Sri Lanka's leading mobile emergency service provider.

As an improvement in the service and value addition to the Hale and Hearty policy of ATI, all policyholders will now have access to Membership of Medi-Calls; with a 24 hour emergency medical service providing fully-equipped ambulances with doctors, nurses and paramedics, services such as ambulances, house visits by the doctor, nursing care and more, at very reasonable rates. Specialised services for bedridden patients are also available.

The 'Hale and Hearty' policy pertains to the renowned Takaful concept where policy holders become participants in a common fund, based on principles of true caring and sharing, and comes with a host of unique benefits including a most appreciable Cashless Hospitalisation Card in addition to its hallmark Surplus Refund feature.

Aramex opens branch office

Aramex, a leading Air Express company in Sri Lanka as part of its expansion plan for 2008 has opened a new branch office at Galle Road, Colombo 3 for the convenience of all its valued customers within the Colombo city limits.

The new office would facilitate all local and international courier service requirements as a drop off point for walk in clients with its easy access to main driveway.

Flexsa 1500 and NNO launched

Mega Lifesciences (Pvt) Ltd., a leading pharmaceutical company in Australia launched Flexsa 1500 and Nourishing Night Oil (NNO) for a healthy lifestyle skincare.

Flexsa 1500 which contains glucosamine is a joint-care drink in sachet form. It is an orange flavoured drink to be taken after a morning meal. NNO is a vitamin E capsule which contains jojoba oil for the skin.

Country Head Mega Lifesciences, Praveen Viswakumaran said NNO is a soothing night care oil that provides nourishment to revitalise the skin and helps minimise surface dryness caused by aging.

"Flexsa is a remedy for those with joint pains,inflammation stiffness, loss of mobility, difficulty in walking and waking up. It is a food supplement in many developed countries", he said.

Brand Ambassador for Glow, Rosy Senanayake said that her association with Mega Lifescience began with the company commencing operations in Sri Lanka and that the health and skincare products have helped her a lot. Mega Lifescience operates in over 90 countries with around 400 experts who are committed to maintain stringent and quality standards of its products.

SLT enhances communication capabilities of SOS Village

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) recently entered into an agreement to enhance the capabilities of SOS Children's Village, a non-governmental and social development organisation by providing a total communication solution.

It comprises voice services, state-of-the-art PBX infrastructure, broadband internet through a high bandwidth leased line and IP-VPN (Internet Protocol-Virtual Private Network) solution with seamless connectivity.

SLT said that the communication platform already provided will facilitate the SOS village to serve more innocent children around the country by getting supporting facilities, donations, sponsors and contributions as an when they needed, as a result of an efficient communication system.

This smooth transaction helps to ensure the organisation's financial stability as well as the children's well-being, education and integration into their local community.

The communication solution facilitates the SOS Village to make available online financial information, Children's progress information, Welfare, other activities and community services they provide to uplift the living conditions of children around the SOS village.

NOLIMIT in Kurunegala

NOLIMIT launched its newest and sixteenth showroom at Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Kurunegala. Focussed on giving customers an enjoyable and hassle free shopping experience in a relaxed atmosphere, the new outlet has been designed with enough and more space for customers to move around leisurely and try on outfits to their desire.

It also has ample parking space for vehicles and the flexible exchange policy, personalised customer care, free alterations on readymade trousers, Arapaima loyalty card program are the other value additions that NOLIMIT offers its valued customers.

Formula Plus 'Turbo Vasana' winners

Sri Lanka Insurance held its "Formula Plus" Turbo Vasana Draw at the Sri Lanka Insurance premises recently. T. K. Nawaratne of Matale became the third Rs. 1,000,000 winner while 165 other winners received prizes ranging from Car DVD/TVs, Home Theatre systems, camera phones and Formula Plus wrist watches.

Clive De Silva and Bri Ponnambalam of the Classic Car Club of Ceylon and Tudor Amarasekara from the Ministry of the Public Administration and Home Affairs were the special guests. Nawaratne received a cheque for one million rupees at a ceremony at the company's head office in the presence of many dignitaries of Sri Lanka Insurance.

World Education Fair 2008

World Education Fair 2008 organised by Pac Asia for the first time in Sri Lanka from March 15-16 at the Taj Samudra Hotel, brings several reputed universities from Australia, USA, New Zealand and Ireland.

Pac Asia, an international education consulting organisation established in 1996, looks to change the way we approach foreign University placements.

This multinational organisation that has been in operation for more than 10 years with branches in many parts of the world has organised a series of educational fairs commencing March with the objective of providing prospective applicants a more individual and personalised, approach to foreign university placement as apposed to the current "showcasing" approach that exists in educational fairs and exhibitions today..

ICICI Bank celebrates first year of 'Salary Accounts'

ICICI Bank Limited's Sri Lanka Branch celebrated one year of the successful launch of "Salary Accounts", a product that was made available to the local corporate sector in Sri Lanka. The Bank felicitated its customers at a gathering which was attended by all the major corporates in the country.

ICICI Bank Sri Lanka's Senior Vice President and Head of Retail Liabilities, Sachin Sikka, said, "Since we introduced "Salary Accounts" to the top corporate management and decision makers in Sri Lanka one year ago, we have received a good response in the market resulting in over 50 partnerships with the corporates."

Explaining the workings of the salary account, Sikka said that those Corporates who wished to open salary accounts of their employees with ICICI Bank, could have their salaries credited to the account at no cost, with the concept of 'Single Debit - Multiple Credits'.

SLT boosts distance education through broadband connectivity

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has been chosen as the communication infrastructure provider for National On-line Distance Education Service (NODES). It operates under the Distance Education Modernisation Project (DEMP) of the Ministry of Education.

The company will provide connectivity solutions for National One-line Distance Education Service (NODES), an initiative of DEMP, with a Wide Area Network (WAN), operating on fibre optic based Virtual Private LAN services (VPLS) of SLT Metro Ethernet which can support advanced data, voice, video and higher-speed internet services.

This WAN connects the NODES Access Centres (NACs) of DEMP from across the country, facilitating distance learning.

Neo Plasma Plus LG ACs provide protection from Avian flu

Avian Influenza or 'bird flu', as it is commonly known as is a contageous disease caused by viruses that normally infect only birds and less commonly pigs.

Avian Influenza viruses are highly species-specific, but have on rare occasions, crossed the species barrier to infect humans, often fatally.

This fast spreading disease has plagued our neighbouring Asian countries for some time and the threat of the disease spreading to Sri Lanka has greatly disturbed our health authorities. LG with innovative solutions, has introduced the NEO Plasma System in their air-conditioners which provides 99.9% protection against Avian Influenza.

A special K-AVF filter with Nano Silver in Nano Bio Fusion Particle allows their nano-size bio enzymes to directly penetrate through cell walls of bacteria to decompose its cell nuclei and kill the virus, while conventional methods merely inactivate bacteria or only destroy external cell walls.