Media Release
05th
October, 2016
The Ceylon Chamber to seek views from its members via “Online
Polls’
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has started to seek the opinion of its
members on crucial economic and business issues via an ‘Online Poll’,
system, thus launching another medium, it will use in the future to engage
with its members and also other relevant stakeholders.
The latest move is already launched via the CCC website and will also be
promoted to members via the social media platform and also dispatched
to the email addresses and mobile phones of the members, thus paving
the way for a quick feedback on crucial issues affecting businesses.
Accordingly, the Chamber as its first ‘Online Poll,’ have launched a survey
to ascertain the opinion of its members and the interested stakeholders on
‘why Sri Lanka’s Exports are declining’.
The ongoing poll forwards six possible reasons, which might be causing
the downfall of local exports and the voters can choose one or more of the
given ‘reason’ which they think are causing the steady slide in local exports
during the last one and half decades.
Among the possible reasons given in the poll for this alarming slide in
exports are, lack of innovation and new products, limited entry into the
growing markets, lack of preferential trade agreements, weak demand in
key export markets, lack of government support and rising cost of
production.
The
voting
can
be
done
by
visiting
https://www.chamber.lk/ccc-poll/
Ends.