The Island The Fragrance of Cinnamon at Dilmah TeaMarch 3, 2024September 4, 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.
The Island Compass for More Human BusinessFebruary 4, 2024September 4, 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.
The Daily Mirror UNDP, UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka renew strategic collaborationJanuary 25, 2024September 4, 2025UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka Executive Director Rathika de Silva, UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka Chairman Dilhan Fernando, UNDP Sri Lanka Resident Representative and UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka Board Representative Azusa Kubota and UN Sri Lanka Resident Coordinator Marc-André Franche
DailyFT Dilmah Foundation extends Rs. 75 m grant to eradicate cervical cancerJanuary 25, 2024September 4, 2025Dilmah Tea, through its Merrill J. Fernando Charitable Foundation, entered into agreement with Ministry of Health and the Rotary Club of Colombo, to restart a national initiative to eradicate cervical cancer in Sri Lanka by 2030
DailyFT Dilmah invites industry collaboration to strengthen sustainability and resilience in Ceylon TeaJanuary 23, 2024September 4, 2025With the climate emergency clouding prospects for farmers globally, Dilmah Tea invited stakeholders in Ceylon Tea to a collaboration aimed at embedding sustainability and resilience into Sri Lanka’s tea industry. The initiative is linked to wider conservation, restoration and sustainable agriculture efforts by Dilmah Conservation, linked to its genesis, nature based solutions program, and its global climate action efforts via the Dilmah Conservation, One Earth Climate Research and Adaptation Centre. The initiative envisages collaboration with Universities and Researchers in strengthening climate resilience on tea plantations through more regenerative forms of agriculture.
Ceylon Today Everything You Need to Know About BatsDecember 18, 2023September 4, 2025A Field Guide to the Bats of Sri Lanka by Prof Wipula Bandara Yapa sponsored and published by Dilmah Conservation is a book that explains everything you need to know about bats.
Ceylon Today From Garbage to GardenDecember 16, 2023September 4, 2025A 6 feet high garbage dumping site in the heart of Moratuwa is today, a garden full of flowering plants and hundreds of colourful butterflies.
The Island South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH) Research Study at Dilmah’s Queensberry EstateNovember 26, 2023September 4, 2025Working to Understand the Impact of Nitrogen Pollution from Ammonia on South Asian Forest Ecosystems
The Island Green Gold: The Discovery of Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity by Dr. Rohan PethiyagodaNovember 24, 2023September 4, 2025The idea of exploration for its own sake is associated very much with Western culture. The Sinhala word for this pursuit—gaveshanaya, literally 'to search for cattle' - is evidence of this. While ancient Sri Lankans had names for every useful plant and animal, there was little thirst to discover every single species there is, to describe it, and to give it a name.
DailyFT The Black Friday – It’s not what you thinkNovember 24, 2023September 4, 2025Existence of the traditional small farmer is threatened by our 21st Century food system
The Business Times Kahawatte Plantations wins at international tea eventNovember 19, 2023September 4, 2025Short description: Kahawatte Plantations’ Endane Special BOP 1 tea has been ‘highly’ commended at the renowned Leafies International Tea Academy Award 2023.
DailyFT Kudos for Kahawatte Plantations’ Endane Special BOP 1 at Leafies International Tea Academy Award 2023November 17, 2023September 4, 2025Kahawatte Plantations announced yesterday that its Endane Special BOP 1 tea has been highly commended at the renowned Leafies International Tea Academy Award 2023.
