Nelna Group of Companies is one of the major poultry processors that play a vital role in the Sri Lankan poultry industry. The company has a strength of over 800 out-growers, 1500 employees, a reputed brand name, and a loyal customer base. It produces a customized variety of quality and safe frozen chicken products with high protein and nutritious values with the best taste and distributes to the whole nation under the close supervision and committed contribution of a competent, skillful, and professional workforce while complying with the international processing technology and world standards.

Nelna is a self-sufficient group of companies as it produces the day-old chick (DOC) requirement through Parent Stocks, has enough environmentally controlled pens for the rearing of Parent Stocks, Veterinary Research Centre, laboratory, an own feed manufacturing unit, and a Render Plant to recycle the production line garbage. In the year 2009, it moved to compost fertilizer project as a measure to waste management and disposing of chicken dung meeting international standards whilst minimizing environmental pollution.

In order to cater customized and high-quality further processed poultry meat-based products to variety of customers, Nelna started its sausages and meatballs production plant with expertise knowledge of Thailand and Germany, and premium quality further processed products of this nature are being distributed island-wide since February 2011. At present, the company is exporting its further processed products to South Asian countries such as India & Maldives. Think differently is another theme of Nelna and thus at present, it is researching and developing canned products and packed products which could be stored on shelves. This idea was generated to ease off the busy lifestyles of urban life and also to cater to the customers in rural areas who don’t have refrigeration facilities.

Due to the intensive competition among the major players in the industry and as these players act aggressively in order to have a major market share, Nelna strategically included value additions to its products by making product differentiations like Nelna Easy range and also Ready to Cook cold store products uplifting the brand identity. Nelna brand has customized its core product to satisfy the market requirement with different pack sizes and 42 product types ranging from a whole chicken to pieces and parts. Various independent surveys have identified that Nelna products delight customers with its quality product range.

To be the market leader in the sectors we operate, we have produced our range of products to cater to the emerging needs of our valued customers. Our research and development team is fully committed to identifying the pulse of the customers in order to fulfill their needs at the first instant. Our warehouses are strategically located all over the island, with a strong marketing force and a large fleet of vehicles to ensure the total satisfaction of our end users.

Adding more value to the core business, whilst being closer to nature, with the concept of growing and distributing healthier organic fruit products to every possible human being for consumption, Nelna Group of Companies ventures a Mango plantation in mid-2009.

Nelna Group of Companies considers quality as its number one priority where it has obtained ISO 14001, ISO 19001, ISO 22000, HACCP, GMP, HALAL, FSSC 22000 and SLS 1218 for better practices in quality, environmental, food safety, and occupational health and safety management systems. Moreover, we are in the process of achieving Global GAP certification for the mango plantations in order to comply with the food, environmental and occupational health and safety of the products.

The group has won many awards and certificates for its Business and industry excellence, company growth, best management practices, corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and contribution to the nation’s economic development. Total Corporate Social Responsibility is another concern of the company where it voluntarily contributes to enhancing the standards of natives economically and socially. The Helping the poor to uplift living standards, financially helping needy people, aiding social societies, and also supporting religious places are some of the areas which Nelna Group of Companies looked into during last few years in order to support the society.