Maliban began with a boy, a tea kiosk, and a founding philosophy that quality was the only currency worth building on. Seventy years later, the brand ships 25 million packets of biscuits a month to markets across six continents.

In this episode of the CAL Circle, Hashila Fernando — fourth-generation member of the Maliban family and the person now leading its next chapter — traces the arc of a business that has outlasted generations of competition, economic turbulence, and shifting markets.

She speaks about her great-grandfather's founding ethos, what it means to carry a legacy into a room full of Gen Z consumers, and why the company's most recent strategic moves have been its most ambitious.