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Hayleys PLC
Company typePublic
CSE: HAYL.N0000
ISINLK0080N00008
Industry
PredecessorChas P. Hayley and Company
Founded10 January 1878; 146 years ago (1878-01-10) in Galle, Ceylon
FounderCharles Pickering Hayley
Headquarters
Colombo
,
Sri Lanka
Key people
  • Mohan Pandithage (Chairman and Chief Executive)
RevenueDecrease LKR436.833 billion (2024)
Decrease LKR42.722 billion (2024)
Decrease LKR14.847 billion (2024)
Total assetsIncrease LKR446.336 billion (2024)
Total equityIncrease LKR125.530 billion (2024)
Owners
  • Dhammika Perera (51.01%)
  • Public Shareholders (37.09%)
  • D. S. Jayasundera Trust (11.60%)
  • McLarens Holdings Ltd (1.60%)
Number of employees
Increase 36,266 (2024)
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.hayleys.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

Hayleys PLC, founded in 1878 by Charles Pickering Hayley, is a multinational and diversified conglomerate company in Sri Lanka, publicly listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange[2] with business spanning over 16 sectors, catering to 80 markets worldwide. Hayleys accounts for approximately 5% of Sri Lanka's export income, and 4.6% of the country's tea and 4.1% of its rubber production.[3] With over 36,000 employees, Hayley was also the first listed entity in the country to surpass annual revenue of US$1 billion in Fiscal Year 2017/18.[4] The company operates over 16 business sectors: eco-solutions, hand protection, purification, agriculture, consumer and retail, leisure, textile manufacturing, construction materials, plantations, industrial solutions, power and energy, transportation and logistics, BPO, tea exports, projects and engineering, and investments and services. Hayleys comprises over 180 business units and subsidiaries, twelve of which are publicly listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. Hayleys PLC is a public listed company with over 15,147 shareholders as of March 31, 2024.[5] In addition to Sri Lanka, Hayleys today has manufacturing facilities in Indonesia,Thailand and India, with marketing operations in Australia, India, Bangladesh, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, UK, USA, France, Poland and Kenya, and its products are sold in 80 countries.

History

Early Years 1871 Onwards

The beginnings of the Hayleys Group can be traced back to 1871 when Charles Pickering Hayley (1848–1934), the son of British businessman, Thomas Hayley (1807–1881), disembarked from the Percy Douglas,[6] a 781-tonne clipper ship (owned by Thomas Hayley), at Galle, Ceylon. The ship subsequently was wrecked off the coast of Rangoon.

The Percy Douglas clipper ship
Founder Charles Pickering Hayley

Hayley joined a firm of shipping agents, Thomson Mitchell & Co, in 1874. When the company closed three years later due to bad investments, he rented a shop on Pedlar Street in Galle Fort and started his own import/export company, Chas. P. Hayley & Co., on 10 January 1878, exporting local products including coir, cinnamon and citronella oil and importing goods such as British claret. Hayley married Gertrude Fanny Lee (1849–1911), the daughter of George Lee, the Postmaster General of Ceylon (1844–1860) and Martha née Austin.[7] The couple had six children and in 1893 his oldest son, Alec (1875–1936), joined the firm, followed by another son, Stuart Pickering (1883–1960), eight years later.

Chas. P. Hayley & Co - Pedlar Street shop

In 1909, he entered into a partnership with W. W. Kenny to purchase Thurburn Stores, at Deans Road.

Hayley and Kenny became a Private Limited Company in 1935 and Chas P. Hayley & Co. becomes a private limited liability company and fully owned subsidiary of Hayley and Kenny Ltd. in 1944. In 1954 under one corporate umbrella, the entity went public. Hayleys Ltd continued to diversify into a portfolio that currently includes activated carbon, rubber gloves, textiles, fibre-based products, tea and rubber plantations, leisure, transportation and logistics services, consumer products, and other investments and services to name just a few.

In 1958, its shipping agency department was restructured as Maritime Agencies Ltd, which later evolved into Hayleys Advantis. In the 1960s, Hayleys partnered with Bayer of Germany to establish Haychem Ltd for agrochemical production. A period of innovation followed with the establishment of Haycarb Ltd to produce activated carbon from coconut shell charcoal, a pioneering value-added export. The company further expanded by acquiring Ravi Industries Ltd, a coir brush manufacturer, and founding Dipped Products Ltd for rubber glove production. By 1983, Hayleys launched its first international venture in the United States, now known as Haycarb USA Inc. Throughout the subsequent decade, the company diversified further into hospitality, plantations, and textiles.

2000 - Present

Hayleys steps into power generation in collaboration with AES corporation of USA in 2001.[8]

Hayleys entered the ship-owning business in 2003 with a maiden investment in the container vessel "Orient Stride". 2003 also saw the first overseas plant setup by Dipped Products Ltd.[9]

2006 saw Hayleys adopt a new visual identity, replacing its former logo of 50 years.[10]

In 2008, Hayleys became one of the 10 signatories for the CEO Water Mandate initiative of the UN's Global Compact.[11] In 2008, Dhammika Perera became the majority shareholder of Hayleys.[12]

Hayleys continued to grow and expand through the decades with a series of strategic acquisitions, such as the acquisition of the Ceylon Continental Hotel in Colombo in 2010 (which at the time was the single largest investment in its history),[13] and that of Alumex Group[14] and Amaya Leisure PLC in 2011.[15] The Ceylon Continental Hotel was rebranded and unveiled as The Kingsbury Hotel in 2012.[16]

Hayleys also made forays into the renewable energy industry from 2013 onwards, through its wind power, hydropower and solar power plants located in advantageous locations in Sri Lanka.[17]

The Advantis Free Zone was opened for operations in 2015.[18]

In 2016, Hayleys acquired a 75% controlling stake in Fentons Group[19] (subsequently rebranded as Hayleys Fentons)[20] and purchased the Kuda Rah Resort in the Maldives (which became Amaya Kuda Rah).[21]

In 2017, Hayleys acquired 61.73% of the equity in Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC[22] (the single largest acquisition for a listed company in Sri Lanka in recent times), as well as the majority stake in Sri Lanka Shipping Company Limited,[23] a leading shipping and maritime organization, making Advantis the largest vessel operator.

Hayleys celebrated "140 years of excellence" in 2018.[24]

In 2018, Hayleys entered into a strategic partnership with Martin Bauer group of Germany, renaming Hayleys Global Beverages as Martin Bauer Hayleys with the joint venture investment by MB Beteligungs GmbH.[25]

In April 2021, Hayleys Fabric acquired a 98.84% stake in South Asia Textiles Limited as part of its strategic plan to export value-added fabrics.[26]

Hayleys and its associates have forged successful partnerships with Mercedes-Benz, TATA International, Dystar, Symrise, Bayer Cropscience, Philips Lighting, Polymer Latex, Volvo, Fujifilm, P&G, Shimadzu, FedEx and Gillette.

Recent Acquisitions

Year Company Value
2010 Hayleys acquires its first city hotel – Ceylon Continental Hotel, now renamed as The Kingsbury Rs 1.9 billion
2011 Hayleys enters in to the aluminium extrusion industry by acquiring the Alumex Group Rs. 2.2 billion
2012 Hayleys acquires majority stake in Amaya Hotels & Spas Rs. 2.6 billion
2014 Aquire controling Stakes of Alufab PLC (now Unisyst Engineering) Rs. 170 million
2016 Acquisition of Fentons Limited Rs. 722 million
2017 Hayleys acquires Kuda Rah Island Resort Maldives US$23 million
2017 Acquisition of majority stake in Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC Rs. 10.9 billion
2017 Acquisition of majority stake in Sri Lanka Shipping Company Ltd Rs. 4.9 billion
2021 Hayleys Fabric acquires South Asia Textiles Ltd Rs. 3.95 billion
2023 Acquisition of Horana Plantations PLC Rs. 700 million

Corporate Affairs

Hayleys is a Sri Lankan diversified conglomerate headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Its main offices are located in and around the premises; however other manufacturing, agricultural, marketing, and production bases are geographically spread around the country and throughout five different continents.

Fitch Affirms Hayleys at 'AAA(lka)'[27]

Hayleys PLC has a National Long-Term Rating of ‘AAA(lka)/Stable’ awarded by Fitch Ratings.[28] However, the composition of the entire Group includes 12 other publicly-listed companies. The blue-chip recorded its highest profits in the twelve months ending 31 March 2022.[29] The single largest investment in the 140-plus year history of Hayleys (and the largest acquisition of a public listed company at the time) was the 10.8 billion rupee controlling stake of Singer Sri Lanka in 2017,[30] followed by the buying over of the five-star Ceylon Continental Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka (now known as The Kingsbury) in 2010.

Corporate Recognition

In 2010, Hayleys Group was named Sri Lanka's Best Corporate Citizen by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.[31]

The firm brought fame and recognition to the country by winning a European Foundation for Management Development Award for the INSEAD-produced case study featuring the company, and winning the USAID Global Development Alliance Award for Sri Lanka for fostering commercial agriculture in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province. [32]

In 2012, the Hayleys Group was ranked amongst the top three most respected business entities in Sri Lanka and placed first for Nation-Mindedness in Lanka Monthly Digest's ‘Most Respected Entities In Sri Lanka’ survey, the Group's best standing since 2008.[33]

In 2021, Hayleys PLC was ranked the No.1 company in the LMD's Top 100 listed companies of Sri Lanka (for the fifth consecutive time) and the Business Today Top 40.[34]

Finances

Ten Year Financial Summary
Year Revenue LKR (mns) Profit LKR (mns) Equity LKR (mns) Capital employed LKR (mns) Earnings per share LKR
2024 436,833 14,847 80,163 297,412 9.19
2023 487,431 27,672 78,930 282,402 21.80
2022 338,010 28,099 67,390 277,221 24.34
2021 241,276 14,046 47,618 189,661 10.18
2020 210,307 2,895 39,705 186,412 0.50
2019 219,182 2,750 40,242 175,162 0.35
2018 163,249 3,272 39,649 152,449 1.37
2017 111,383 5,048 40,866 102,787 3.71
2016 92,275 5,195 31,096 80,036 4.16
2015 92,562 4,886 29,261 73,544 3.44
2014 80,479 3,709 23,723 62,163 2.41

Source: Annual Report, 2023/24 (p. 424)[1]

References

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayleys