هاري جاياواردنا Harry Jayawardena

هاري جاياواردنا
Harry Jayawardena
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وُلِدَ
Don Harold Stassen Jayawardena

(1942-08-17)17 أغسطس 1942
جا-إلا، سيلان البريطانية
توفي3 فبراير 2025(2025-02-03) (aged 82)
كولومبو، سريلانكا
الجنسيةسريلانكي
المهنةرجل أعمال
سنوات النشاط1977–2025
عـُرِف بـرئيس مجلس إدارة Melstacorp
الزوجPriya Jayawardena
الموقع الإلكترونيstassengroup.com

Deshamanya[1] الدون هارولد ستاسن جاياواردِنا (17 أغسطس 1942 – 3 فبراير 2025)،[2] وعُرف بإسم هاري جاياواردنا Harry Jayawardena، كان رجل صناعة سريلانكي. كان رئيس مجلس إدارة Melstacorp PLC[3] وكان القنصل الفخري للدنمارك في سريلانكا. وتضعه فوربس كأحد أغنى الأشخاص في سريلانكا.[4]

النشأة

Jayawardena first joined a British-owned tea export firm in Santha as a tea trader.[بحاجة لمصدر] He moved to the government-owned State Trading Corporation (Consolidated Exports), 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.[5][6]


القطاع الخاص

After resigning from Consolidated Exports, Jayawardena founded Stassen Exports Limited on 7 September 1977 in order to export Ceylon Tea.[بحاجة لمصدر] In 1988 Jayawardena's companies became a significant shareholder of the country's largest private commercial bank, Hatton National Bank.[7] 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.[بحاجة لمصدر] In 2007, under Jayawardena's Chairmanship, DCSL became the No. 1 listed company as per the "Business Today" Top 10 rankings.[8][9][10]

المصالح والأعمال

Jayawardena was a major shareholder and Chairman of the board of directors of the following Colombo Stock Exchange companies:[11]

Jayawardena had interests in these publicly traded companies:[بحاجة لمصدر]

And in these private companies:[11][بحاجة لمصدر]

  • Stassen Group
  • Milford Exports
  • Lanka Dairies
  • Ambewela Livestock Company
  • Pattipola Livestock Company
  • Lanka Bell
  • Continental Insurance Lanka
  • Bellavantage Pvt Ltd

جوائز للشركة

Jayawardena was the chairman of both Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka and Aitken Spence, these companies were the first Sri Lankan companies ever to be listed on the Forbes List of best managed companies outside the USA.[13] In 2007, Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka PLC was the sole Sri Lankan company to be listed once again in the Forbes List of Asia's best 200 under a US$1 Billion.[14]

جدال

In December 2006, an alleged attempt to remove the Chairman of the Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka, Jayawardena, then managing director of DCSL, was allegedly quoted as threatening to shoot the chairman.[15] Subsequently, Harry Jayawardena assumed duties as the Chairman of DCSL. The same newspaper alleged that Jayawardena threatened a customs officer, many years back.[16]

Jayawardena announced his voluntary resignation from CPC (Ceylon Petroleum Corporation) on 12, January 2012, a post given by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Due to his personal issues, he announced his resignation.[17]

مناصب فخرية

Jayawardena has held honorary positions including the Senior Adviser for International Trade and Foreign Investments to the then Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga.[18] He was a member of Colombo Stock Exchange for many years.[بحاجة لمصدر] He was a member of the Apex Task Force to Rebuild the Nation (TAFREN)[19] established by the President of Sri Lanka after the December 2004 tsunami. He was also appointed Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Sri Lanka's National carrier,[20] becoming Executive chairman in January 2008.[21]

التكريم

Jayawardena was awarded the title of Deshamanya by the President of Sri Lanka for his services to the industry in 2005.[1] In 2010, he was appointed Knight of the Order of Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe II for his services to Denmark as its Honorary Consul General in Sri Lanka. He received the award for his outstanding and exemplary contribution to Denmark and for fostering bilateral ties between Sri Lanka and Denmark.[22]

الوفاة

Jayawardena died on 3 February 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.[2]

المراجع

  1. ^ أ ب "National Awards". رئيس سريلانكا Secretariat. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  2. ^ أ ب "Prominent businessman Harry Jayawardena passes away". www.adaderana.lk (in الإنجليزية). 2025-02-03. Archived from the original on 2025-02-03. Retrieved 2025-02-03.
  3. ^ "Lanka Bell targets over 100,000 CDMA lines by mid August". Daily News Online. 9 August 2005. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  4. ^ Springer, Jon (20 November 2013). "Sri Lankan Dhammika Perera's Master Plan". Forbes. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  5. ^ Cassim, Nisthar. "Tea boy to tycoon". The Daily FT. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  6. ^ Hulugalle, Arjuna. "My memories of Stassens' beginning". Island. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Stassens still holds HNB reins". Daily News Online. 26 December 2007. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  8. ^ "Top 10". Daily News. 10 October 2007. Archived from the original on 15 February 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  9. ^ "Thailand's Siam City Cement bags Holcim Lanka for US $ 373mn - Business News | Daily Mirror".
  10. ^ "Daily News". Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  11. ^ أ ب "D. H. S. Jayawardena Chairman / Managing Director". DCSL Group. Archived from the original on 11 فبراير 2012. Retrieved 2 سبتمبر 2012.
  12. ^ "Harry Jayawardena, Balangoda Plantations PLC: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg News.
  13. ^ "Aitken Spence Group posts record results". Daily News Online. 14 November 2003. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  14. ^ "Sri Lankan Distilleries in Forbes's 'Best Under a Billion'". Lanka Business Online. 9 October 2007. Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  15. ^ ""Harry J threatened to shoot me" – Vittachi". The Sunday Times. 3 December 2006. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  16. ^ ‘Dirty Harry’ threatens Business Times journalist
  17. ^ Harry J to resign ?
  18. ^ "Cover Supplement: Aitken Spence". LMD Cyber Edition. September 2005. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  19. ^ "Background". recoverlanka.net. Archived from the original on 31 October 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  20. ^ "Looking back at 2006: Harry J, peace talks dominate business focus this year". The Sunday Times Online. 24 December 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  21. ^ "Harry J. flies higher and higher on SriLankan Airlines". The Sunday Times Online. 13 January 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  22. ^ "Harry Jayawardena Honoured". Business Today. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

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