Founded in 1878 as Charles P. Hayley & Company, Hayleys is today one of the largest Sri Lankan multinationals. It is a company with a portfolio of globally competitive core businesses spanning Fibre, Rubber, Environment, Plantations, Agriculture, Transportation, Inland Marketing, Knitted Fabrics and Tourism.

A quoted and truly broad-based company with no single individual, family or institution owning more than 12%. In the 52 years since its incorporation as Hayleys, it has a record of 26 scrip issues and 4 modestly-priced rights issues, together with dividend payouts averaging 25% in each of these years.

Hayleys today accounts for 2.7 per cent of Sri Lanka's export income, 2.2 per cent of GDP and 3.2 per cent of market capitalization on the Colombo Stock Exchange.

Hayleys carries a AA(lka) credit rating by Fitch Ratings.