The John Keells Group was recognised by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Sri Lanka for its Triple Bottom Line reporting at the recent Sustainability Reporting Awards 2019 ceremony which awarded companies for their sustainability performance disclosures in industry group categories as well as overall. The awards ceremony saw John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) […]

Hikka Tranz by Cinnamon (Hikka Tranz) together with the Marine Environmental Protection Authority (MEPA) and Plasticcycle – the Social Entrepreneurship project of John Keells Group, launched an initiative on the 30th of January 2020 to maintain a stretch of beach along the resort premises. This initiative looks towards the placement of specially designed plastic waste collections […]

John Keells’ Transportation, Consumer Foods, Retail and Financial Services industry groups grow profits Impact to Sri Lankan Leisure business and exchange losses at the Holding Company affects Group performance The Transportation, Consumer Foods, Retail and Financial Services industry groups recorded a growth in profits. The Group’s year-on-year performance for the quarter was impacted by the […]

As John Keells Holdings (JKH) celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2020, the group is not looking at any grand ceremony to mark this significant milestone for Sri Lanka’s largest, 14,000-strong listed conglomerate. However on the business side the organisation is setting its sights on investing and managing more hotel properties overseas (outside the Maldives) while […]

Chairperson’s Awards for ​the year 2019 was held successfully at the Cinnamon Grand Oak Room on the 29th of November. The curtain raiser for the evening was a musical mashup performed by inhouse artists and musicians Dinuk Gunasekara (JMSL), Anthony Ousman (JKIT), Upuli Jaysinghe (Walkers Tours), Anupama Jayatilleke (JK PLC), Prasanna Rupkumar (JKP), Veena Lekamge […]

Union Assurance PLC., one of the largest Life Insurance Companies in Sri Lanka has appointed Mr. Jude Gomes as the new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Gomes will officially take office from the 1st of December 2019. He is a Senior financial services professional in the life insurance and banking industry having more than 27 years of […]

The John Keells Group is on a transformational journey powered by data and advanced analytics, which would propel us to being more data-driven in our strategic and operational decision making. Union Assurance is one of the John Keells Group companies that have embarked on a road map of Advanced Analytics Projects to solve key business […]

John Keells Holdings PLC was ranked as one of Sri Lanka’s Most Admired Companies by the International Chamber of Commerce, Sri Lanka (ICCSL) together with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Sri Lanka and the Daily FT. Mr Gihan Cooray – Deputy Chairperson & Group Finance Director of JKH accepted the award at the ceremony […]

Mr. Gihan Cooray – Deputy Chairperson and Group Finance Director JOHN KEELLS HOLDINGS PLC speaks to CNBC during the CLSA Investors’ Forum in Hong Kong, on recovery momentum in Sri Lanka following the Easter bombings earlier in 2019. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/09/10/sri-lankas-economy-has-shown-a-fair-bit-of-resilience-john-keells.html