1994 | LMD

First Native Firm to Safe a World IPO

JKH is listed on the Luxembourg bourse

There are those that would argue that the perfect measure of a nation’s price is the worth of what it exports. These vary from its merchandise to the individuals who comprise a rustic and infrequently search employment or everlasting residence abroad by dint of emigration.

One college of thought holds that in an age of world commercialism, the gold commonplace could be an area enterprise that receives worldwide consideration on a overseas inventory alternate. One of the best exemplar of this achievement is indubitably John Keells Holdings (JKH), which was the primary Sri Lankan firm to be listed on a bourse overseas.

At dwelling, the premier itemizing of JKH – the funding holding firm of the John Keells Group – was transacted on the Colombo Inventory Trade (CSE) in 1986; it was the most important IPO of that point.

A 12 months or so later (by March 1987), JKH mirrored a market capitalisation of Rs. 110 million, of which 1 / 4 was held by 2,179 shareholders.

Right this moment, the conglomerate enjoys a market cap in extra of 215 billion rupees and the boldness of over 11,000 shareholders in a broad-based possession that features the participation of many internationally famend institutional funds – lots of whom had been long-time international stakeholders of the group.

JKH went on so as to add one other worldwide feather to its redoubtable cap: in 1994, the John Keells Group grew to become the primary Sri Lankan firm or conglomerate to acquire a list abroad. That was when the native enterprise with a demonstrably robust observe document at dwelling and away issued international depository receipts that had been quoted on the Luxembourg Inventory Trade.

JKH – a diversified group of corporations with enterprise pursuits primarily in tourism (it manages motels and resorts in Sri Lanka and the Maldives); transportation (together with port, marine gasoline and logistics companies); leisure; property; monetary companies; info expertise; shopper meals and retail – continues to be one of many largest listed corporations on the CSE at present.

And having been LMD’s ‘Most Revered Entity’ many occasions over, JKH has actually gone the total 9 yards since being included as a publicly owned restricted legal responsibility firm in 1979.

JKH went on so as to add one other worldwide feather to its redoubtable cap: in 1994, the John Keells Group grew to become the primary Sri Lankan firm or conglomerate to acquire a list abroad