Spend your clothing budget at G-Flock and help save our motherland

I’m Ranil Willadarage, an entrepreneur & a fashion designer by profession, the CEO & founder of the clothing brand called GFlock. I was born in Akuressa and moved to Colombo to study at Royal College after passing the grade 5 scholarship exam.

Today I would like to reach out to the Sri Lankan community here and abroad with a single sustainable foreign exchange earning solution that I believe will help save our motherland, which has been devastated by the current economic crisis.

Our brand is Gflock, a fast fashion company founded on creativity. We design, produce and sell ready-to-wear garments to a wide array of customers.

While most brands around the world design and produce clothing based on the four main seasons, G- Flock releases 40-50 new designs every week, categorisedas casual wear, work wear, evening wear, menswear, linen & denim departments which are purchased by local and international customers through our three retail stores in Sri Lanka and GFlock.com online store. Most of our Sri Lankan expatriate community purchases their clothing from brands such as Zara, Mango, Myer, Uniqlo, H&M, and Shein.

Most of these brands are based in Europe and developed countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Sri Lankans living in the United States, Canada, Australia& Europe tend to spend an average amount of US$300-US$500 as their annual clothing budget on these foreign brands.

My kind request to our Sri Lankan communities abroad is to spend your clothing budget at G-Flock, and place orders through our global online store. In return, I am prepared to offer 51% of the business’s shares to the Sri Lankan public in 2025.

By implementing this model combined with this expected income, we will create new jobs across the country and provide our employeesadequate wages while also supporting the families of those employees with monthly rice and dry ration packages to further strengthen their quality of life and help overcome poverty. The above comments were made by Ranil Willadarage the CEO & founder of the clothing brand GFlock at the reasonally held Press conference in Colombo.