British High Commissioner advocates business community to stick to best practices

Sri Lanka needs each and every company and each and every businessman and woman to be setting and sticking to principled standards and practices, and needs them to be holding their employees, customers and suppliers to these.

Competition stimulates innovation and efficiencies, it feeds ideas, it encourages product innovation and higher customer service standards.

These companies and these business leaders should take the lead to help move free trade forward, not hold it back.

This was stated by British High Commissioner in Sri Lanka James Dauris when he addressed the launch of Trade Research Book on Bilateral Trade between Sri Lanka and the UK CBB in Colombo recently.

These companies should hold the politicians and officials they talk to and work with to the same high standards he said,

He urged business leaders and chambers to use their public authority and influence with the government to help press down on permit mentalities and to support the liberalisation of laws and regulations that hold business development back.

He added that the business community needs companies that are leading in their fields to help take forward these changes and support the government with efforts to liberalise the market and make it easier to do business.

Senior business managers and leaders, have key roles to play in holding the government and others to account he said adding that hand in hand with this responsibility goes a responsibility for supporting the government, for sharing the good advice on wise decision-making,.