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Aug 05 2026
19New Anthoney’s Group has confirmed its return as the Official Poultry Supplier for MasterChef Sri Lanka Season 2, extending a partnership that began with the show’s historic debut season. When the search begins again for the country’s finest home cooks, the chicken in the MasterChef kitchen will carry the same guarantee it always has: raised without antibiotics, verified by science, and produced by the company that has built Sri Lanka’s most rigorous poultry standard over four decades.
Masterchef Sri Lanka Season 1 premiered on 14 February 2026 on ITN under the theme “Sri Lanka on a Plate,” the inaugural edition ran across 25 episodes and drew contestants from every corner of the island. Sanjula Manoj from Hasalaka emerged as the first-ever MasterChef Sri Lanka winner on 9 May 2026, earning the title through a competition that tested creativity, composure, and the ability to translate Sri Lankan culinary heritage into dishes of genuine refinement.
The judges, led by internationally acclaimed chef Peter Kuruvita alongside Savindri Perera, Rohan Fernandopulle, and Kapila Jayasinghe, set a standard of critique that matched the ambition of the format. As the 71st international adaptation of a franchise broadcast across 72 countries, MasterChef Sri Lanka proved in its first season that Sri Lankan food culture had more than enough to say on a global stage.
The decision to continue into Season 2 is not a formality. New Anthoney’s Group was the natural choice for Season 1 because no other producer in Sri Lanka can make the same claim: every bird raised without antibiotics at any stage of production, independently verified through a landmark five-year Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Peradeniya’s ISO/IEC 17025-accredited Food Safety and Quality Assurance Laboratory. That commitment does not change between seasons. If anything, Season 2 arrives with the standard better established and the audience better informed about what it means for what ends up on the plate.
“We were proud to be part of Season 1 from the very beginning, and we are proud to be back for Season 2. MasterChef Sri Lanka has done something important: it has shown this country that its food is worth taking seriously, and that the ingredients behind the food matter just as much as the skill of the cook. New Anthoney’s has always believed that. This is exactly the platform where that belief belongs,” said Eranga Kurukulaarachchi, Executive Director and Business Development Manager, New Anthoney’s Farms.
The partnership arrives at a moment of considerable momentum for the Group. Earlier this month, the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, announced an investment of up to US$10 million in New Anthoney’s Farms Group, backing the company’s plans to expand production capacity, strengthen its smallholder farmer network, and scale its export operations.
For Season 2 contestants, the kitchen starts with a material advantage: produce that is certified to FSSC 22000, ISO 22000, HACCP, and GMP standards, with international Halal certification and a GHG Verification Statement under ISO 14064-1:2018, certified by Control Union Netherlands. New Anthoney’s is also the only poultry company in Sri Lanka with that environmental credential.
Across its retail portfolio, the Group operates the HarithaHari antibiotic-free range in Sri Lanka’s first fully compostable poultry packaging, the Crizzpys ready-to-eat frozen range, the Chicken Havens HORECA line for professional kitchens, and the Meatlery luxury meat retail network. Season 2 contestants will be working with a product that the country’s most discerning chefs and its most ambitious export buyers have both signed off on. That is not a sponsorship talking point. It is simply what the standard requires.
