Aitken Spence empire owned by Harry Jayawardena - හැරි ජයවර්ධනගේ ව්‍යපාර

Anchored to a rich history spanning over 150 years, Aitken Spence PLC is one of Sri Lanka’s time-honored and respected conglomerates with thriving business interests across diverse industries. Our trademark is borne across many pioneering projects in tourism, maritime, logistics, energy, plantations, services, and apparel in the region.

Listed in the Colombo Stock Exchange since 1983, we possess a credible record for partnering with global principals in every sector we operate in. With a growing presence across India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Oman, Fiji, Mozambique and Myanmar, we are adeptly perceptive of new avenues, opportunities and frontiers for sustainable value creation.

Don Harold Stassen Jayawardena (born 17 August 1942 in Ja-Ela, Sri Lanka), known as Harry Jayawardena, is a Sri Lankan industrialist. He is chairman of Melstacorp PLC and is the Honorary Consul General for Denmark in Sri Lanka. Forbes listed him as one of the richest people in Sri Lanka
Jayawardena first joined a British-owned tea export firm in Colombo as a tea trader.[citation needed] He moved to government-owned State Trading Corporation , better known as Consolexpo Ltd, becoming the head of the Tea Department, which controlled the monopoly of tea exports of Sri Lanka under the administration of Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike in the 1970s

After resigning from Consolidated Exports, Jayawardena founded Stassen Exports Limited on 7 September 1977 in order to export Ceylon Tea.[citation needed] In 1988 Jayawardena's companies became a significant shareholder of the country's largest private commercial bank, Hatton National Bank.[5] These companies later ventured into many other areas. In 1992, his business empire bought a controlling interest in the Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka PLC (DCSL), which was at the time the largest transaction in the Colombo Stock Exchange.[citation needed] In 2007, under Jayawardena's Chairmanship, DCSL became the No. 1 listed company as per the "Business Today" Top 10 rankings

Jayawardena is a major shareholder and Chairman of the board of directors of the following Colombo Stock Exchange companies:

Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka
Lanka Milk Foods - Chairman/Founder
Madulsima Plantations - Chairman/Managing Director
Balangoda Plantations - Chairman/Managing Director
Browns Beach Hotels
Aitken Spence
Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings
Melstacorp
Jayawardena has interests in these publicly traded companies:

Hatton National Bank
Development Finance Corporation of Ceylon (DFCC)

And in these private companies
Stassen Group
Milford Exports
Lanka Dairies
Ambewela Livestock Company
Pattipola Livestock Company
Lanka Bell
Continental Insurance Lanka
Bellavantage Pvt Ltd

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