🏆 Hemas Consumer Brands Clinches 'Overall Winner' at JASTECA 2025

• Hemas Consumer Brands (HCB) secured the prestigious title of “Overall Winner” at the JASTECA Awards 2025, establishing a national benchmark in operational excellence and lean management. • The recognition, which returned after a five-year hiatus, highlights HCB's consistent, best-in-class performance against a highly competitive field of enterprises. • HCB's success is attributed to its influential adoption of core Japanese management principles: 5S (instilling discipline and agility) and Kaizen (a philosophy of everyday, continuous innovation). • The achievement showcases a successful bottom-up performance culture, where employees are empowered to eliminate waste and generate an average of 20 to 30 innovative ideas daily across the value chain. • The awards are organized by the Japan Sri Lanka Technical and Cultural Association (JASTECA) and honor organisations embodying Japanese principles of quality, productivity, and employee engagement.