Leading Sri Lankan businessman Harry Jayawardena passed away

03 Feb, 2025

Leading Sri Lankan businessman Harry Jayawardena passed away. He was 82-years-old at the time of his death.

He had served as the Chairman of Melstacorp PLC and the Honorary Consul General for Denmark in Sri Lanka.

Jayawardena founded Stassen Exports Limited on 7 September 1977 in order to export Ceylon Tea.

In 1988 Jayawardena’s companies became a significant shareholder of the country’s largest private commercial bank,?Hatton National Bank.

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.

In 2007, under Jayawardena’s Chairmanship, DCSL became the No. 1 listed company as per the “Business Today” Top 10 rankings. (Colombo Gazette)

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