MAS Holdings to celebrate Women of Excellence

MAS Holdings will felicitate their Empowered Women for the fifth consecutive year on November 12 at the MAS Institute of Management Technology, Thulhiriya. 23 Empowered Women of MAS's various business units will be recognised for their personal and professional achievements.

The annual "Empowered Women of the Year" awards are a focus of the "Go Beyond" programme, through which employees excelling in all walks of life are recognised. The programme aims to empower employees and impact communities by championing the cause of women's empowerment in society. The programme also focuses on ensuring employee's career advancement and strengthening their work-life balance.

This year would be the fifth consecutive year Victoria's Secret has come forward to sponsor the awards ceremony, whilst it will be NIKE's third year. President, MAST Industries, Rick Paul will be the chief guest while Director India LO, NIKE, Atul Ujagar, VP Corporate Responsibility, NIKE, Hannah Jones, Director Sustainability Ventures, NIKE, Kelly Lauber and Director of Compliance -South Asia, NIKE Harsh Saini will be among the guests of honour.

The ceremony will focus on celebrating Sri Lankan women of excellence, including all of the past empowered women as well as well known personalities such as Rosy Senanayake, Susanthika Jayasinghe and Nanda Malini, who are also guests of honours at the event.

The Women Go-Beyond initiatives at MAS have been globally recognised and rewarded. In 2005, the programme was awarded the American Apparel and Footwear Association Award for Excellence on women's issues.

In recognition of MAS' Corporate Responsibility initiatives the UN Global Compact in July 2007, selected the Go-Beyond programme as a 'Case for inspiration'.

MAS Holdings was one of the 22 companies that had been selected from a membership pool of 4400 organisations to be featured in the report.