Founder of country’s premier retail brand receives prestigious Stevie Award for Women in Business Otara Gunewardene, CEO of ODEL, outshone leading female entrepreneurs from around the world to bring honour to her motherland by winning the best entrepreneur award at the seventh US Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The

Niko, the darling of Embark takes to the limelight yet again. The ‘Niko Goes to Hollywood’ collection brought the glitter and glamour of show business to the local catwalk for many of the brand’s loyal fans on Saturday the 21st of August 2010.

Here are some of the snapshots from Odel’s first day of trading, captured at the Colombo Stock exchange, (4th of August 2010). Otara and her adorable sons graced the occasion with big smiles and their signature charm.

Battaramulla became the latest town to bow down to fashion pressure when Otara opened the thirteenth of her stores, ODEL, on Friday the 16th of July 2010 at Koswatte Junction. The store was opened to the fashion sensible public in Battaramulla with the pomp, pageantry and glitz of live mannequins,