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BPPL Holdings: Only Sri Lankan company listed in Forbes Asia’s 200 ‘Best Under a Billion’ Source:Bizenglish.Adaderana BPPL Holdings PLC, one of Southeast Asia’s largest brush manufacturers and Sri Lanka’s largest plastics recycler equipped with one of only two plants in the world capable of creating polyester yarn directly from recycled PET plastic flakes, is the only Sri Lankan company to have entered Forbes Asia’s 200 ‘Best Under a Billion’ list. Forbes evaluated over 20,000 publicly traded companies in the Asia-Pacific region this year with revenues of under US Dollars 1 Billion and consistent top-and bottom-line growth from which only 200 were selected. Companies were selected based on a composite score that incorporated their overall track record. This includes debt, sales, and earnings-per-share growth measures over both the most recent fiscal year and three-year period and the strongest one- and five-year average returns on equity. Aside from quantitative criteria, qualitative screens ...