Manjula Dahanayake

Executive Director/ceo at CBL Group

Manjula Dahanayake currently serves as the Executive Director, CEO, and Managing Director at CBL Group since December 2023, overseeing various group companies including Convenience Foods (Lanka) PLC and Plenty Foods (Pvt) Ltd. Prior to this role, Manjula was the Group Chief Executive Officer at Lanka Milk Foods (CWE) PLC from May 2019 to December 2023. Manjula's experience includes significant positions at Nestlé Lanka PLC, where responsibilities involved managing key accounts and modern trade from June 2013 to April 2019, along with roles at Pepsi and ICL Marketing, Bharti Airtel Lanka, Coca-Cola Sabco, and Unilever Sri Lanka Ltd. Manjula holds a post-graduate diploma in marketing from The Chartered Institute of Marketing and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

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Colombo, Sri Lanka

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CBL Group

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CBL Group is a Sri Lankan conglomerate specializing in the food industry. Most of the products today enjoy the coveted position of being market leader in their respective category in Sri Lanka. Ceylon Biscuits was founded in 1968 to manufacture high-protein biscuits to supplement mid-day meals for school children under a joint programme of Care Organization, USA, and the Sri Lankan Government. In the mid eighties the company ventured aggressively into commercial operations and recorded one of the highest growth rates in any industry in Sri Lanka. The success story was the company’s dedication to high quality standards, constant innovation of the product line, aggressive marketing and high focus on research and development.


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5,001-10,000

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