{"id":577,"date":"2017-01-16T17:33:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=577"},"modified":"2017-01-16T17:33:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:33:17","slug":"coca-cola-interested-in-using-sl-as-production-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/coca-cola-interested-in-using-sl-as-production-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola interested in using SL as production hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia Pacific heads of multinational Coca-Cola has expressed their willingness to develop Sri Lanka as a production hub to re-export their products to India.<\/p>\n<p>A Finance Ministry statement said this was conveyed during a meeting Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake had with Coca-Cola Asia Pacific Group President John Murphy and Executive Vice President Irial Finan last weekend, in Colombo, a Finance Ministry statement said. India has the highest demand for Coca-Cola products in the South Asian region.<\/p>\n<p>The two Coca-Cola officials had pointed out that making Sri Lanka a production hub for Coca-Cola could earn the country a huge sum of foreign exchange while generating job opportunities for the youth.<\/p>\n<p>The two officials had also discussed with Karunanayake about the use of Sri Lanka\u2019s natural water resources and tea-related products to manufacture Coca-Cola brands and re-export the final products.<\/p>\n<p>The officials had also expressed their concern over the stability of Sri Lanka\u2019s rate of taxation.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia Pacific heads of multinational Coca-Cola has expressed their willingness to develop Sri&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}