National Business Excellence Awards 2010:

SL businesses vibrant, energetic, innovative - Peter Hayes

by Mohammed NAALIR

"The Sri Lankan business community is vibrant, energetic, and innovative," said Peter Hayes, High Commissioner of the United Kingdom in Sri Lanka addressing the National Business Excellence Awards 2010 organised by National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) at Hilton Hotel.

It is these qualities that will take forward the country and its people into the 21st century, to a new era of peace and prosperity, he said. Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC was the gold award winner at the awards ceremony with Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd and Orange Electric securing the silver and bronze medals respectively.

The NCCSL conducts the National Business Excellence Awards competition annually to recognise and reward contributions made by business enterprises to the economic progress of the country and to recognise the enterprises that have created capacity for economic growth, to recognise enterprises that have built sustainable market competitiveness, to recognise enterprises that have institutionalised best practices and business excellence and to recognise the entrepreneurs who have demonstrated their capacity to invest.