Biz Briefs
Hameedia Father’s Day promo
 Suranga Fernando of Colombo 4, won three return air tickets to
Singapore in the Father's Day promotion conducted by Hameedia.
His daughter Kiyara's (a Grade five student) letter about her father
was among the hundreds of entries received from different parts of Sri
Lanka over a two and a half week period. In addition to the grand prize,
15 lucky families were also invited to a five-star dining experience at
the Taj Samudra. The enthusiasm it generated was overwhelming while some
of the entries were inspiring and moving,” Hameedia, Managing Director
Fouzul Hameed said.
BoC launches NRFC rewards scheme
 The Bank of Ceylon (BoC) launched the ‘Bank of Ceylon NRFC Wasana’
and ‘Bank of Ceylon Cash Remitts Reward Scheme’ and three more draws
last week to reward its Non-Resident Foreign Currency (NRFC) account
holders, Ran-Kekulu Foreign Currency (RKFC) accounts holders and Foreign
Remittance customers.
“These rewards schemes will give customers not just one, but five
opportunities to win millions in cash prizes and other gifts, and are
ahead of rewards schemes offered in the foreign currency sector up to
now,” a spokesman for the bank said.
Robbialac launches colour matching app
 Lankem Robbialac recently launched a colour matching application
through smart phones. This novel application enables users to completely
change or mix and match the colour of any surface in a virtual
environment.
The application could be downloaded from Android and soon on IOS App
Store free and the Robbialac Colour Explorer App could be used to take a
picture of the desired surface.
When selecting colours from Robbialac Emulsion or Weathercoat one can
tap on the surface and get it painted with the selected colour and
experience the effect of the colour on your wall and against the other
decor.
Sampath credit card cinema incentive
A promotion is on for Sampath credit cardholders at the Majestic City
Cineplex. Under this scheme, a credit cardholder will be charged only
for one ticket when a reservation is made for two, to view two movies,
‘Fast and Furious 6’ and ‘World War Z’ at Ultra and Platinum 3D cinema
theatres of Majestic City Cineplex, today and on July 6 and 7.
They could call on the dedicated number to make their reservations
and make payments through the credit card.
Cannon cameras for NAPSL students
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Metropolitan Office (Pvt) Limited, the sole agents for Canon cameras
in Sri Lanka, presented a Canon digital camera for students of the
National Association of Photographers, Sri Lanka (NAPSL). From left:
NAPSL, Director - Education, Chandrasena Perera, NAPSL, Director –
Administration, Thilak Weerawansha, NAPSL, Executive Director, Wimal
Amarathunga, Metropolitan Office, Director and Chief Executive Officer,
Taslim I Rahaman, Metropolitan Office, Assistant General Manager, Suresh
Herath and Metropolitan Office, Customer Relations Manager, Gamini
Mayadunne at the presentation. |
WSO2 introduces Stratos
 WSO2 recently introduced the Stratos 2.0, a complete, open
enterprise-grade platform as a service (PaaS). “WSO2 Stratos 2.0
features cartridge-based architecture, which combines support for
heterogeneous applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
platform run-times with native, secure multi-tenancy.
WSO2 introduced the latest release of Stratos at GigaOm Structure in
San Francisco,” a spokesman for the company said. |
