[3] The company was founded by James Brown, a 25-year-old engineer and mechanic from Hampstead, London who arrived in Ceylon in 1872.
[5] In 2015, Brown & Company set up a green tea factory at Norwood Estate owned by Bogawantalawa Plantations PLC.
[10] Due to the bullish prospects in the apparel industry, the company is planning to invest LKR15.3 billion in a state of the art textile plant in Kurunegala District.
[12] A national audit has revealed irregular dealings at the Hingurana sugar factory which is run as a public-private partnership between the government of Sri Lanka, Brown and Company, and LOLC Holdings.
[13] A forensic audit carried out by KPMG revealed that the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) had bought stocks in Brown and Company worth LKR737 million without approval from its investment committee.