225:. The company also has the distinction of being the first food company to achieve the National Quality Award in 1996. Winning the award again in 2010 and 2015. The company has also been awarded the 'Global Performance Excellence Award' in 2016 and 2018 by the Asia Pacific Quality Organisation. In 2020 they won the 'Brand Excellence Award' at the Sri Lanka Best Brand Awards.
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In 1970, Hinni
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170:, the son of Angulugaha Gamage Cornelis Appuhamy and Kankanamgamage Kathirinahamy. He had his early education at St. Aloysius College, Galle. At the age of seventeen, in 1922, he left school and home and traveled to Colombo to seek his fortunes. After opening his own tea kiosk on Maliban Street,
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Baseline Road, another at Norris Road and at Chatham Street. He invited his brothers, A. G.
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Appuhamy then opened a bakery, which initially sold bread but later added hand made biscuits to their range. One of the first biscuits produced was the
Maliban Marie biscuit. In order to satisfy the demand he purchased a biscuit cutter from India to assist in the biscuit manufacturing.
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Biscuits commenced full-scale production. In 1954 the bakery section of Maliban Hotels Ltd was subsequently converted into a limited liability company, Maliban Biscuit Manufactories Ltd.
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the assets of the businesses carried out by the three brothers were incorporated into
Maliban Hotels Limited. The business included six hotels, one tearoom, an ice cream parlour, a mineral water company and bakery.
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In 2020 the company announced that it would be diversifying into the production of pharmaceuticals, as part of the government's plans to establish a self-sufficient local pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
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