Business Today Sri Lanka Magazine - June 1996

In this issue

Sri Lanka, with its new emphasis on privatization, has a thriving market for telecommunications, and prospective investors can be certain of a rapidly growing market with good returns, in a country that is determined to be the hub of economic activity in the South Asian region.

Sri Lankan government woos industrialists with a novel scheme to generate their own power.

Regarded as the investment of the decade, the development of the Galle Port will also provide a much-needed boost to the industries in the Southern Province.

The concept of quality is no longer alien to Sri Lanka as more and more industries are making it the core of their management policy.

Galle Port's strategic location and its potential to function as a transshipment base for container cargo make it one of the most economically viable hub ports.

Quality is the keyword that is frequently echoed in most organizations today, and the most successful organizations are those that have placed quality control at the heart of their management policy. Angie K'Singham outlines what quality control is all about and how one has to go about getting the ISO-9000 certification.