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Aitken Spence

Aitken Spence
Public
Traded as SPEN.N0000
Industry Leisure
Transportation & Logistics
Power Generation
Information Technology
Financial Services
BPO
KPO
Printing
Apparel
Plantation Services
Property Development
Founded 1868
Founder Patrick Gordon Spence
Thomas Clark
Edward Aitken
S.R. Aitken
Headquarters Colombo, Sri Lanka
Area served
Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh,
India, South Africa, Oman, Fiji
Key people
Harry Jayawardena
(Chairman),
Rajan Brito
(Deputy Chairman and
Managing Director),
Rohan Fernando (Director),
Parakrama Dissanayake(Director),
Stasshani Jayawardena(Director)
Revenue Decrease US$ 279.9 million (2013/14)
Increase US$ 43.6 million (2013/14)
Increase US$ 34.4 million (2013/14)
Total assets Increase US$ 467.7 million (2013/14)
Total equity Increase US$ 296.6 million (2013/14)
Number of employees
13,000 (2012)
Website Official Website

Aitken Spence PLC (Scottish pronunciation:/ɪtkinˈspɛns/, Sinhalese: , Tamil: ) is a Sri Lankan conglomerate with operations in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific. Listed in the since 1983, it has major interests in hotels, travel, maritime services and logistics. The group also has a significant presence in printing, plantations, power generation, financial services, IT, BPO/KPO sector, elevator agency services, garments, and property development.

Aitken Spence has been recognised by Forbes as one of the most successful publicly traded companies with annual sales under US$1 billion outside of the United States, for three consecutive years. In 2012, Aitken Spence was adjudged the top winner of the Best Corporate Citizen Award 2012 presented by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and has retained the title for 11 consecutive years. The Company is one of the first signatories to the UN’s Global Compact in Sri Lanka.

Whilst the roots of Aitken Spence can be dated back to Wilson & Archer Partnership of the 1830s in the early British Colonial Ceylon, the company began to take its current form after the signing of a formal partnership agreement between Thomas Clark and Patrick Gordon Spence—Scottish merchants and shipping agents in Galle—on 1 September 1868, wherein Clark Spence & Co. was established. Clark Spence & Co.'s trading segment at this stage included exports of natural vein graphite (plumbago), gems, hides, Sappan wood, ebony, coffee, coconut oil, coir yarn, bristle fibre, arrack, and citronella oil to United Kingdom, Continental Europe, United States of America and Australia; and imports of Burmese rice and coal for steamer ship bunkers.


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