New Anthoney’s Feeds Wins Four Golds and a Silver at NCQP 2026

New Anthoney’s Feeds won four Gold Awards and one Silver Award at the National Convention on Quality and Productivity (NCQP) 2026, claiming recognition across all five improvement projects it entered. The results, announced on 17 June at the Mount Lavinia Hotel, Colombo, mark a significant step up from the company’s double-Gold performance at NCQP 2025 and reinforce its standing as one of Sri Lanka’s most quality-driven agri-food businesses.

The NCQP is Sri Lanka’s foremost annual platform for recognising workplace improvement. Organised by the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Quality and Productivity (SLAAQP), this year’s edition was the largest in its history, drawing more than 2,000 delegates from over 100 organisations and evaluating 450 improvement teams across categories including Quality Control Circles, Lean Six Sigma, Quality Improvement Teams, Cross-Functional Teams, and Kaizen. The convention was held under the theme “People-Driven Quality and Productivity for a Resilient Sri Lanka.” 

For New Anthoney’s Feeds, this year’s performance builds on a track record it has been compiling at the NCQP. The company won two Golds at the 2025 edition, in the Cross Functional Teams and Quality Improvement Projects categories, a result that qualified it to represent Sri Lanka at the International Convention on Quality Control Circles (ICQCC) 2025 in Taiwan. Four Golds and a Silver across five projects this year shows the company has set even higher standards to meet on the strength of that qualification. 

“At New Anthoney’s, we don’t just raise chickens, we raise standards. This result is a reflection of the people behind our operations, and the culture of continuous improvement they live by every single day,” said Neil Suraweera, CEO of New Anthoney’s Group. 

New Anthoney’s Feeds Ltd. is the feed manufacturing arm of New Anthoney’s Group, Sri Lanka’s leading integrated poultry producer and the only company in the country to raise chicken without antibiotics at any stage of production. The Group was founded in Hanwella in 1986 by Chairman Emil Stanley and Directress S.M.D. Marie Seetha Lakshmee, beginning with 1,000 birds and a straightforward conviction: Sri Lankan families deserve food produced the right way. Four decades on, it controls the full supply chain from feed formulation through hatchery, farm, and processing to retail, with a portfolio that includes the HarithaHari antibiotic-free range, Chicken Havens, Crizzpys, Frenchys, and the Meatlery retail network.

The quality culture recognised at NCQP sits alongside a broader certification framework that includes FSSC 22000, ISO 22000, ISO 9001:2015, HACCP, and GMP. New Anthoney’s is also the only poultry company in Sri Lanka to hold a GHG Verification Statement under ISO 14064-1:2018, certified by Control Union Netherlands. In January 2026, the Group formalised a five-year Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Peradeniya’s ISO/IEC 17025-accredited Food Safety and Quality Assurance Laboratory for ongoing independent verification of its antibiotic-free claims. The Group was also named Best Exporter in the Processed Food Category at the 26th Presidential Export Awards and has received backing from the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group.