DailyFT | Pressroom Creating futures from cricketJune 23, 2016June 14, 2025"What is more important for a fast bowler; line or length?" asked Sir Richard Hadlee from a line of awestruck teenage fast-bowler aspirants. They looked up at the towering Sir Hadlee and hesitantly volunteered their answers. About half of them were right but all of them had to demonstrate the answer before one of the best fast bowlers in history.
DailyFT | Pressroom SRI LANKA NATIONAL BLIND CRICKET TEAM READY FOR PAKISTAN CRICKET TOURNAMENTApril 3, 2016June 14, 2025The Sri Lanka National Blind Cricket team is currently preparing for a Pakistan tour, in which they will be playing three T-20 and three one day matches from 3 to 10 April. The team received their official uniforms sponsored by Dilmah yesterday.
LMD | Pressroom The Aroma of Ceylon TeaMarch 8, 2016June 14, 2025Asked how the local tea industry might pan out in 20 years time, the younger son of Dilmah founder Merrill J. Fernando says that if we can get our act together, identify our strategy and align stakeholders, the tea industry will be in an amazing position, with the potential to make it sustainable.
BBC | Pressroom BBC features the Dilmah Family at School of TeaDecember 10, 2015June 14, 2025Merrill J. Fernando, Founder of Dilmah tea speaks to BBC
Channel News Asia (CNA) | Pressroom Dilmah Tea on CNA GlobalNovember 16, 2015June 14, 2025Merrill J. Fernando, Founder of Dilmah tea speaks to CNA
Bloomberg | Pressroom Dilmah Real High Tea on Bloomberg TV IndonesiaNovember 16, 2015June 14, 2025Dilmah Founder Merrill J. Fernando and his son Dilhan were featured on Bloomberg TV’s High Flyer’s programme on the 28th of August 2014. The programme hosted by Haslinda Amin had Merrill and Dilhan discussing the history of Dilmah, the Sri Lanka tea industry and Dilmah innovations which seek to integrate tea into a modern lifestyle while respecting the tea.
BBC | Pressroom Dilmah Tea on BBC Asia TodayNovember 16, 2015June 14, 2025Merrill J. Fernando, Founder of Dilmah tea speaks to BBC
Al-Jazeera | Pressroom Merrill J. Fernando on Al JazeeraNovember 16, 2015June 14, 2025Merrill J. Fernando, Founder of Dilmah tea speaks to Al Jazeera
LMD | Pressroom Just My Cup Of TeaNovember 16, 2015June 14, 2025Merrill J. Fernando, the founder and chief Ceylon tea, Dilmah, speaks to Paul Harris nation-building, and of marketing of the internationally-reputed brand of pure about the business of entrepreneurship and "Ceylon" as a unique brand.
Fortune | Pressroom Vintage CeylonNovember 16, 2015June 14, 2025DILHAN FERNANDO gathers a fistful of earth and surveys his family's sprawling estate. "What's grown on that field," he says, pointing to a lush cultivation on a distant misty hill, "will differ dramatically from what's grown over here." He lets the dirt sift through his fingers, as if for emphasis. "And they will both be superb drinking."
The New York Times Ad underdog takes on the giantsNovember 16, 2015September 4, 2025Merill J.Fernando's eyes lit up one recent morning when his son Dilhan handed him a box of Twinings Pure White tea. He Quickly ripped open a tea bag and spilled its contents onto a piece of paper.
Pressroom | stoppress.co.nz The story of a slogan: Dilmah’s Kiwi connectionJuly 4, 2013June 14, 2025One of the world’s great slogans— Dilmah’s ‘Do Try It’ coming up 20.
