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Best Corporate Citizen Awards 2010:
Hayleys gets the balance right
Hayleys PLC won the Best Corporate Citizen Award at the Best
Corporate Citizens Awards 2010, held on November 3.
The runners up were Hatton National Bank (first runner-up) and MAS
Intimates (second runner-up).
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Hayleys Chairman Mohan Pandithage with the award |
The Awards, conducted by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, for the
seventh consecutive year, honoured the corporate community in their
efforts to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable
business at a gala awards ceremony at Oak Room, Cinnamon Grand. External
Affairs Minister Prof G L Peiris was the Chief Guest with the keynote
speech being delivered by the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace Co-Laureate
Prof Mohan Munasinghe.
Five category winners for Environment, Customer Relations, Employee
Relations, Community Relations and Economic Performance as well as the
top 10 best corporate citizens also received awards that evening. The
top three places for the 'under 10 b turnover category' were awarded as
well.
The winner for the Employee Relations category was Hatton National
Bank while Colombo Dockyard PLC was the winner in the Governance and
Economic Contribution category.
Hayleys won the award for the Customer and Supplier Relations
category and Aitken Spence received the award for Community Relations
and CSR. MAS Intimates bagged the award in the Environment category.
Aviva NDB Insurance won the "Best Corporate Citizen Award" for the
'under 10 b turnover' category, with Link Natural Products and People's
Leasing Co. Ltd as first and second runners up respectively.
The top 10 Best Corporate Citizens comprised Aitken Spence PLC, Aviva
NDB Insurance, Cargills (Ceylon) PLC, Ceylon Biscuits Limited, Colombo
Dockyard PLC, Hatton National Bank PLC, Hayleys PLC, HSBC, MAS Intimates
(Pvt) Ltd and Sri Lanka Telecom PLC.
The Awards for Special Projects went to CIC Agribusiness, DFCC Bank
and Microsoft Sri Lanka while Merit Certificates were awarded to
Hameedia Stores, HSBC, Orange Electric, Ceylon Biscuits, Heritance
Kandalama and Hidellana Tea Factory.
The main objective of the Awards is to encourage enterprises to focus
on sustainability of business and to adopt CSR practices. |
