John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) is Sri Lanka’s largest listed conglomerate, with business interests in Transportation & Ports, Leisure, Consumer Foods & Retail, Property Development & management, Financial Services and Information Technology related services. Since its modest beginnings as a produce and exchange broker in the early 1870s, JKH has been known to constantly realign, reposition and reinvent itself in pursuing growth sectors of the time. Our investment philosophy is based on a positive outlook, bold approach, commitment to delivery and flexibility to change. JKH is also committed to maintaining integrity, ethical dealings, sustainable development and greater social responsibility in a multi stakeholder context. Having produced superior returns for our shareholders and experienced significant growth in the past five years, the group’s next phase of growth will be fuelled by our new vision“Building businesses that are leaders in the region”.

Our values
We are passionate about

• Changing constantly, reinventing and evolving
• Striving to get things right the first time
• Doing the right things always
• Constantly raising the bar
• Fostering a great place to work
• Building strong relationships based on openness and trust.

JKH is
• The third largest capitalised company on the Colombo Stock Exchange
• The first Sri Lankan company to be listed overseas -
    Global depository receipts listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
• AAA (Sri) credit rated by Fitch Ratings Lanka Ltd
• A full member of the World Economic Forum
• A member of the UN Global Compact
• LMD’s most respected entity in Sri Lanka for the third consecutive year