True Monopoly business in SL

suja · 1 True Monopoly business in SL Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:26 pm

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Hi All, Can we identify true monopoly businesses in Sri Lanka I have done some search and came to only 2 , that is CTC and Nestle to a greater extent. Can you identify as to whether there are any others??

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GLAS

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suja wrote:Hi All, Can we identify true monopoly businesses in Sri Lanka I have done some search and came to only 2 , that is CTC and Nestle to a greater extent. Can you identify as to whether there are any others??

Not sure NEST is a true monopoly. There are others also doing some of their businesses/products types

monash · 4 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:28 pm

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Nestle is not a monopoly, they have many competitors.

We can take DOCK and GRAN(Prima flour section) from listed companies as monopoly.

You can take SUGA as an oligopoly which only have one or two competitors

mono · 5 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:03 pm

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monash wrote:
You can take SUGA as an oligopoly which only have one or two competitors

nope they import sugar

Kumar · 6 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:13 pm

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Please try this link
http://www.scribd.com/doc/59797045/Market-Structures-in-Sri-Lanka

monash · 7 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:24 pm

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sorry it's a mistake.. thanks mono for correction. we can't consider SUGA as a as a sugar manufacturer anymore, because they have diversified after Distilleries purchased, Their vision also has changed dramatically. Smile

http://www.pelwattesugar.com/psdl/index.html

I'm not sure what's next after govt. takeover? Wink

Tiger · 8 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:34 pm

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GLASS, RCL (sanitary ware), TWOD, LION, LAMB, DOCK, DIPP, ECL, SOY are monopoly or near monopoly in their industries.

suja · 9 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:58 am

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Thank you all , so the end result is we do not have many as some products are having competition from imports. Out of the above I would like to highlight:

Glass - Monopoly
CTC - Monopoly
LION - No as there is 1 other competitor so its Oligopoly
RCL - Imports
TWOOD - No so many others in this business
Dock - Monopoly ,
ECL - No as their business is not consuntrated on core any more
SOY - Confusing need to study
Gran - Holding company monopoly in one segment

What about Raigam Salt?

If we can study the earnings growth in Monopoly businesses highlighted above and invest carefully it will give us a steady growth year on year as there will be demand from local consumers. What do you think?

Slstock · 10 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:02 am

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monash wrote:

GRAN(Prima flour section) from listed companies as monopoly.

GRAN listed on CSE does not involve in flour production.

Slstock · 11 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:07 am

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DOCK has several segments.

Ship building , ship repair , and heavy engineering.

There are other listed companies on CSE doing Ship repair and Heavy engineering. Recent venture of KAPI doing ship repair come to mind. But DOCK is the big boy for sure.

salt · 12 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:21 pm

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slstock wrote:
GLAS

NONSENSE

if price crossed a certain point, importing from Gujarat or indonesia is easy.

Slstock · 13 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:18 pm

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salt wrote:

slstock wrote:
GLAS

NONSENSE

if price crossed a certain point, importing from Gujarat or indonesia is easy.

so is there another glas manufacturer in sri lanka right now?
question is what are the monopoly companies at cse?

Academic · 14 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:44 pm

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salt wrote:

slstock wrote:
GLAS

NONSENSE

if price crossed a certain point, importing from Gujarat or indonesia is easy.

Once one local liquor producer was trying to import bottles intend of buying from glas. However, they found it is difficult to timely match bottle supply and production. Then solution was to maintain slack inuring an additional storage cost. Finally gave up importing.

Nevertheless glas is not a pure monopoly as salt says world competition has to be considered.

bakapandithaya · 15 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:24 pm

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What about our parliament, lol!

Slstock · 16 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:39 pm

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Academic wrote:

salt wrote:

slstock wrote:
GLAS

NONSENSE

if price crossed a certain point, importing from Gujarat or indonesia is easy.

Once one local liquor producer was trying to import bottles intend of buying from glas. However, they found it is difficult to timely match bottle supply and production. Then solution was to maintain slack inuring an additional storage cost. Finally gave up importing.

Nevertheless glas is not a pure monopoly as salt says world competition has to be considered.

The question was Monopoly in Sri Lanka isn;t it? What are you guy saying?

If we consider the world, ofcourse none of the companies mentioned are monopolies. Not even CTC as there are so many tobacco companies in the world.
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Academic · 17 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:49 pm

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If you think there is no competition for glas, then it is a monopoly. In an open economy all most everything has a competition if you see the big picture. A monopoly may create due to several reasons

1. Legally one organization is authorized to sell (eg. shell gas few years back)
2. Huge capital investment prevent others entering the business
3. Only one producer has the technology to produce the product
4. Market is not enough to operate two or more firms.

One can argue based on 2 and 4. However, note we have an open economy.

Rajaraam · 18 Re: True Monopoly business in SL Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:57 pm

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monash wrote:Nestle is not a monopoly, they have many competitors.

We can take DOCK and GRAN(Prima flour section) from listed companies as monopoly.

You can take SUGA as an oligopoly which only have one or two competitors

I think Prima flour has a competitor call Serandib. They also run a flour making plant in colombo port I believe.

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