Pressroom | TEST Random Cat | The Sunday Times President hails Dilmah’s entry into cinnamon cultivationMay 5, 2024June 17, 2025President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed his government’s commitment to implement programmes aimed at popularising cinnamon cultivation.
Pressroom | The Island RW’s deep knowledge of Ceylon historyMay 5, 2024June 14, 2025This short speech made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on April 28 clearly indicates his grip on Ceylon history. He made it on an occasion where he was chief guest at an event hosted at the Galle Face Hotel by Dilmah, the well known tea company now into cinnamon. Dilmah has about 700 acres of cinnamon plantation is estates of Kahawatte Plantations PLC it controls and is revolutionizing the industry.
DailyFT | Pressroom Ceylon Chamber Sri Lanka Climate Summit 2024 on 7-9 MayApril 29, 2024June 14, 2025The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has announced the inaugural Sri Lanka Climate Summit 2024, themed “Code Red: Climate Risks and Opportunities for Sri Lankan Businesses,” from 7 to 9 May at the Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo.
Pressroom | The Morning The success story of the Endana Biodiversity CorridorApril 13, 2024June 14, 2025Sri Lanka’s relationship with conservation is complicated to say the least, with increasing deforestation and land reclamation seeing a growing number of habitats destroyed each year. While State institutions play a vital role in conserving our natural resources and biodiversity, private institutions can and do play a significant role in conservation by rebuilding environments within which plants and wildlife can thrive. The Endana Biodiversity Corridor (EBC), established in 2018 and spearheaded by Dilmah Conservation, is one such private project that looks to strengthen Lankan biodiversity.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom Enhancing ecological connectivityApril 11, 2024June 14, 2025In 2018, the visionary Founder of Dilmah Tea and Dilmah Conservation Merrill J. Fernando took a ground-breaking step by initiating a rainforest corridor project. Named Endane Biodiversity Corridor Project, the endeavour kicked off with the symbolic removal of tea plants in a land strip at the Dilmah Endane Estate which has segregated two rainforest patches bordering the Sinharaja Rainforest – Iharakanda Forest Reserve and Walankanda Forest Reserve – for over a century due to continuous tea monoculture.
DailyFT | Pressroom HSBC Ceylon Literary & Art Festival partners Dilmah Ceylon Tea to launch Future Writers ProgramMarch 29, 2024June 14, 2025The HSBC Ceylon Literary & Art Festival in collaboration with Dilmah Ceylon Tea opened its inaugural edition in Kandy announcing the launch of the Future Writers Program
Pressroom | The Island Ali Nena Mansala, a significant milestone in promoting conservation awarenessMarch 25, 2024June 14, 2025The recently-reopened Udawalawe Information Centre, now known as the Elephant Knowledge Walk at the Elephant Transit Home (ETH) in UdaWalawe, stands as a treasure trove for enthusiasts keen on studying paleontology and all things related to elephants.
Pressroom | The Daily Mirror Uda Walawe ETH: A home away from home for baby jumbosMarch 25, 2024June 14, 2025In a bid to spread more awareness among visitors to the Uda Walawe ETH, Dilmah Conservation in collaboration with the Department of Wildlife Conservation renovated the ‘Elephant Knowledge Walk’ to educate local and international visitors on why the Asian elephant needs to be protected
DailyFT | Pressroom Dilmah’s MJF Foundation and University of Colombo Faculty of Medicine unveil Early Intervention ClinicMarch 20, 2024June 14, 2025MJF Foundation, in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo inaugurated the opening of the Early Intervention Clinic, a ground-breaking facility dedicated to enhancing the lives of young children with Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and other developmental disorders
Pressroom | The Sunday Times Uda Walawe Information Centre now an Elephant Knowledge WalkMarch 10, 2024June 14, 2025The Elephant Information Centre at Uda Walawe that has been transformed into the Elephant Knowledge Walk providing visitors with a more visually engaging and comprehensive experience was relaunched this week by the Department of Wildlife Conservation, Dilmah Tea and Dilmah Conservation.
Pressroom | TEST Random Cat | The Island The Fragrance of Cinnamon at Dilmah TeaMarch 3, 2024June 17, 2025There’s always a lingering fragrance around the Dilmah complex in Colombo. It is generally woody, sometimes tinged with citrus, occasionally fruity, and always pleasant. That’s the aroma of tea, varying only as the seasons influence the teas. We taste over 10,000 teas each week in selecting only the finest teas for Ceylon’s Finest so that lively aroma has always surrounded us, spurring us on in our mission to make the world a better tea since the time my father first started his journey in tea in the 1950s.
Pressroom | The Island Compass for More Human BusinessFebruary 4, 2024June 14, 2025Together with the Board and Team at Global Compact Network Sri Lanka it was an honour to present plans for more sustainable business at Network Sri Lanka’s ‘Compass 2024’ last week. Amidst unprecedented social, economic, health and environmental crises, further complicated by geopolitical tension and conflict, growing inequality and financial stress, there has never been greater urgency to sincerely embrace responsibility in business.
