Royal Cashews shines with two Golds at NCE National Export Excellence Awards

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From left: Head of Sales Chaminda Liyanage, Head of Marketing and New Product Development Ruwan Lahiru Danthanarayana, Business Excellence and Planning Manager Ashan Kannangara, Royal Cashews Group of Companies Chairman and Managing Director Dr. Ruwan Wathugala and his wife Lucky Renoka Senewirathna, General Manager Nimal Ananda, Director Operations Tharindu Tissera and Chief Financial Officer Nadhishani Weerasinghe

Royal Cashews, a Sri Lanka company empowering local cultivators and victorious in local and overseas markets, won the Best Ethically Trading Exporter 2021 NCE Challenge Trophy - Special Award for the first time at the National Export Excellence Awards organised by the National Chamber of Exporters recently.

The achievement established Royal Cashew as the best export organisation adhering to ethics and following virtuous and humanitarian practices. Furthermore, Royal Cashews also secured a Gold Award for the Fresh and Processed Agricultural Export Crops Sector. The gala award ceremony was held at Shangri la Colombo.

As the first cashew processing company in Sri Lanka with all certificates of standardisation such as ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems Standard Certification, the ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management Systems Standard Certification, HACCP and GMP Certifications, Royal Cashews is working painstakingly to add new, high quality cashew products with scientifically enhanced new flavours to the international market.

“Our unending and extremely fair mission to our consumers, cultivators and the staff of Royal Cashews was thus valued with the company being bestowed with the ‘Best Ethically Trading Exporter of the Year’ Award and the Gold Award. In the future also, we hope to bring in more foreign revenue into the country by increasing production through going direct to the cultivator and purchasing his cashew harvest. If cultivators wish to contact us directly, the information they require is in our website (www.royalcashew.com) as well as our Facebook page,” said Royal Cashews Group Chairman and Managing Director Dr. Ruwan Wathugala.

In 1999, the Company was launched with the objective of taking Sri Lankan cashews to the international level. At present, Royal Cashews has become a group of companies in partnership with Royal Food Marketing Ltd., Trust Lanka Suppliers Ltd., and Green Way Asia Lanka Ltd. All three companies purchase the cashew harvests of cashew cultivators as raw cashews, turn them into value-added products in their factory and supply to the local and global markets.

Royal Cashews cashew nut products are exported to several countries of the world such as Malaysia, Japan, America, Switzerland, Britain, New Zealand, Germany, Australia, Austria, Maldives and Saudi Arabia. Royal Cashews has the largest cashew sales outlet network in the country with 20 showrooms located in foremost places such as One Galle Face, Shangri-La, Crescat, Marino Mall, Arcade - Independence Square, K-Zone, KCC, WTC, Welipenna Service Area, Kiribathgoda, Nugegoda, Galle, Borella and Orion City. Royal Cashews has introduced a Cashew Online Delivery System where cashews could be delivered free of charge to any point in Sri Lanka. Through that, Royal Cashew products in 19 varied flavours could be purchased in 682 varied packaging’s and gift packs with special discounts.