Ten Best Corporate Citizens to be recognized this Friday

Ten Best Corporate Citizens and five best CSR projects will receive top honours at the Best Corporate Citizen Award 2011 to be held on November 4, at the Cinnamon Grand. The chief guest of the event will be the Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka while the keynote address will be delivered by Suresh Prabhu, a former Cabinet Minister of India who has been ranked as 'one of the top three Indian leaders of the future' by Asiaweek and 'the 2nd best performing Minister in India' by India Today.

The Best Corporate Citizen Award is the only corporate honour in the country that evaluates all aspects of a business, such as governance and economic contribution, community relations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), employee relations, customer and supplier relations as well as environment. Thus, the winners are evaluated for their overall performance. From this year onwards the Award will also incorporate areas in the Global Reporting Initiative, which were not covered in the previous years.

An independent evaluation panel and a panel of judges have evaluated all applications as per a pre determined marking scheme to select the award winners. The finalists are selected through stringent criteria and the shortlisted applicants were required to make a brief presentation and also face an interview.

Five best CSR projects will also be awarded at the event while all projects that have achieved a high standard will receive certificates of merit.

The winners be announced at the ceremony this Friday. The awards night is open not only for the applicants but also for past winners, companies and enterprises and entrepreneurs who are interested in Sustainable Business and CSR and also for those who wish to apply for awards in the future.

Further details regarding the Best Corporate Citizen Award ceremony 2011 could be obtained from the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce: E-mail - [email protected]