A flourishing city of Southern traditions and conventional crafts, boasts of a few legendary businesses still thriving and embraced by people. When it comes to jewelry, the survival & existence are primarily based on trust and excellence and for optics it is care, comfort and confidence that count. We, at Dakshina Lanka, a household name in the Southern part of Sri Lanka for three generations have made a strong presence in businesses of these two divisions by our unmatched excellence and uncompromised trust. Over 80 year long continuous and impressive business track , long-held trust will continue to be our living testimony. Our History - Our success story The recorded history of Dakshina Lanka runs back to 1930s and boasts of an unblemished business span over 75 years. Ours ranks as one of the legendary and grandeur business enterprises hailing from the colonial times. Still the proud tradition continues, trust runs deep and ethics preserved well. Here are some milestones in the annals of our Golden History. 1930 - Dakshina Lanka Jewelers came into light by its founder Late W G Leiris De Silva Optical section introduced 1965 - Mr. Widana Gamage Premaratne, son of Mr. Widana Gamage Leiris De Silva takes the reins of the Business. 1960s - Business gets English transcript name South Ceylon Jewellers 1988 - Business reverts back to original name Dakshina Lanka Jewellers 2000 - Converted to a Limited Liability Company by Mr. Widana Gamage Premaratne taking the charge as Managing Director. 2013 - Mr. Widana Gamage Chamath Premaratne becomes the Managing Director and continues the traditions to new horizons. Introduces two separate companies for both arms of businesses.