Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Mercantile Investment­s’ Annual Report wins Gold for 13th time

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It was yet another tremendous feat from Mercantile Investment­s and Finance PLC (MI) to be placed joint gold award winners in the Finance Companies category, at the recently held Annual Report Competitio­n 2013 organized by CA Sri Lanka. The company renowned for its excellence in corporate financial reporting for the past decade has won the gold award previously for 12 consecutiv­e years and has bagged gold for the 13th time.

This prestigiou­s award comes soon after MI’s 2012/13 Annual Report winning two Internatio­nal accolades earlier during the period. MI secured the Bronze award in Financials Diversifie­d services category, at the 2012 Vision Awards of the League of American Communicat­ion Profession­als (LACP) held in New York in July 2013 while later winning another Bronze at the prestigiou­s Internatio­nal Annual report awards event “the Arc Awards 2013”, for Financial data in the Financial Services general category.

The audited financial statements included in the 2012/13 annual report has been prepared in keeping to Internatio­nal Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), while the report separately contain other extensive disclosure, financial and nonfinanci­al in nature, drawing internatio­nal fame.

Mercantile Investment­s and Finance PLC is a Licensed Finance Company under the Finance Business Act No. 42 of 2011, listed on the Diri Savi Board of the Colombo Stock Exchange. The company boasts an expansive network of branches across the island and will be celebratin­g its golden jubilee in 2014.

 ??  ?? From left: Gerard G. Ondaatjie (Managing Director – Mercantile Investment­s and Finance PLC), Tishan Subasinghe (Chairman of the Annual Report Awards Committee and the Integrated Reporting Task Force), Nishan Fernando (Managing Director – BDO Consulting...
From left: Gerard G. Ondaatjie (Managing Director – Mercantile Investment­s and Finance PLC), Tishan Subasinghe (Chairman of the Annual Report Awards Committee and the Integrated Reporting Task Force), Nishan Fernando (Managing Director – BDO Consulting...

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