INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The founder and President Emeritus of Ceylon Biscuits Limited (CBL) Group, Deshamanya Mineka Wickramasingha has passed away at the age of
87.After almost 48 years at the helm of the organisation he founded in 1968, the visionary entrepreneur had retired from the position of
1967 that became a nationwide initiative with the Ministry of Education to help prevent malnutrition in schoolchildren and, the start of the
was conferred the title of Deshamanya, which is the second highest national civil honour awarded by the Sri Lankan Government, for
exceptional and highly meritorious service to the nation.
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