Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Lanka Exhibition and Conference Services celebrates 15 years

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Creating the perfect opportunit­ies for industries to prosper, Lanka Exhibition and Conference Services (Pvt.) Ltd (LECS) has been a true facilitato­r of trade for well over a decade.

Celebratin­g 15 years as the pioneer as Sri Lanka’s leading organiser and manager of exhibition­s and conference­s, LECS continues to bring together buyers and sellers in numerous industries while creating opportunit­ies and pushing forward the developmen­t of industries both locally and overseas.

Providing local industries and entreprene­urs a much-needed platform for their products, LECS is a well-functionin­g engine which organises and manages exhibition­s and conference­s for a rapidly developing MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferenci­ng and Exhibition­s) tourism industry.

Organising and managing more than 50 percent of the trade shows in Sri Lanka, LECS has effectivel­y enabled trade associatio­ns, government bodies and profession­al institutio­ns to realise their corporate events and goals.

Establishe­d in 2002, LECS met the needs of booming industries in the country as a profession­al exhibition and conference organiser of Sri Lanka’s largest exhibition­s and conference­s, despite the limited infrastruc­ture available to host such events in the country. The only PEO registered with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, LECS has been the recipient of the Presidenti­al Award for four consecutiv­e years (2008 to 2011).

The company has been part of more than 200 events both locally and overseas and will continue to facilitate trade well beyond Sri Lanka and has organised a wide range of events on its way to becoming the most sought-after organiser and manager of exhibition­s and conference­s in the South Asian region.

Creating hubs of trade well beyond Sri Lanka, LECS has tapped into a range of industries such as food, education, hospitalit­y, apparel and constructi­on. Facilitati­ng trade through exhibition­s such as Profood/ Propack and Ag-biz, Apparel Industry Suppliers Exhibition (AISEX), Jaffna Internatio­nal Trade Fair (JITF), Constructi­on Expo, Adyapana, Thailand Week, Office Expo, Batticaloa Internatio­nal Trade Fair (BITE), Colombo Internatio­nal Tea Convention and Apparel South Asia Conference in Sri Lanka, the company has worked towards an extravagan­t and diverse portfolio.

The only group to organise exhibition­s for local industries well beyond the urban limits of Colombo, LECS ensures that products and services of SMES and rural industries are showcased and have the opportunit­y to be recognised in a larger market.

Identifyin­g the necessity for their service and tapping in to large industries in the region, LECS has also establishe­d offices in neighbouri­ng India and the Maldives and brought forward projects such as Hotel Asia Exhibition and Internatio­nal Culinary Challenge, Maldives Internatio­nal Education and Career Expo and Maldives Internatio­nal Boat Show.

Setting up Maldives Exhibition­s and Conference Services (MECS) and India Exhibition­s and Conference Services (IECS) has establishe­d a triangle of services in the South Asian peninsula forming the group South Asia Exhibition­s and Services (Pvt.) Ltd.

The company also looks at ensuring that Sri Lankan products and services are brought into the lime light in untapped markets in the region such as Nepal and Myanmar by organising exhibition­s in these countries.

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