JXG together with CCC launches ‘BREAKTHROUGH’ to advance national entrepreneur development

Daily Mirror, Newswire and Lanka Business Online report that Janashakthi Group, also known as JXG, and the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce have launched BREAKTHROUGH, a National Entrepreneur Development Programme for businesses across Sri Lanka. The reports describe its purpose as identifying promising enterprises and helping them overcome growth barriers, strengthen capabilities and realise commercial potential.

Newswire and Lanka Business Online say the programme is framed as a private-sector effort to support entrepreneurship amid wider aims of building competitive businesses, generating employment, creating industries and expanding opportunities beyond the domestic market. They report that aspiring businesses can face difficulties obtaining capital, professional expertise, business connections and guidance to scale.

Newswire and Lanka Business Online say the initiative takes inspiration from JXG founder and chairman emeritus C.T.A. Schaffter’s career. They report that his work included contributions to the insurance industry and ventures in education, manufacturing, exports and agriculture, with the reports describing his expansion into sectors beyond insurance.

Lanka Business Online identifies representatives present at the launch as Ceylon Chamber chairperson Krishan Balendra, secretary general and CEO Shiran Fernando, senior assistant secretary general Manori Dissanayaka and lead consultant Dr. Nirmal De Silva, alongside Schaffter, JXG managing director and group CEO Ramesh Schaffter, deputy CEO Dilshan Wirasekara and group chief marketing officer Gamika De Silva. Newswire attributes comments about the programme’s entrepreneurial inspiration to Ramesh Schaffter, but its report ends during his remarks; the supplied reports do not describe application details or subsequent steps.