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Aitken Spence wins Best Corporate Citizens Award

Sri Lanka's private sector at one time that looked at the profit aspect only is now gradually doing a lot of good work in discharging their social responsibility. This was an excellent trend for the sustenance of their business from medium to long term perspective, Minister of Environment Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said “All of you who are seated in this grand function today have shown that the private sector is not only concerned on profits but also about contributing to the society and also about contributing to the environment while doing their business in a sustainable way,” Minister Yapa said at the Best Corporate Citizens Awards for Sustainable Business and CSR 2012.

Aitken Spence was chosen as the Best Corporate Citizen of Sri Lanka in 2012, by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, which organized the annual event .Here former CCC past presidents J Bandaranaike and Deva Rodrigo giving away the award to Aitken Spence Chairman R Brito, while CCC President Susantha Ratnayake and CCC Secretary General/CEO Harin Malwatha look on. Picture by Samantha Weerasiri

The event was organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence was chosen as the Best Corporate Citizen of Sri Lanka during the year 2012, by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, the main event organizer.

He said that the last couple of years saw how unsustainable business practices of corporate giants had a destructive impact on the world economies. Therefore it is something that requires a serious look by the management of companies.

“ This is what we call the Ps approach “People, Planet and Profit” and all businesses should adopt that to increase the profit margins by looking after the interest of the society and environment,” Minister Yapa said.

Ambassador, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Sri Lanka Bernard Savage said that Sri Lanka has achieved some considerable economic growth during the past. The beauty of it was that social responsibility, human rights ethics have integrated into business activities.

Savage participating as the Guest of Honour at the function said that Asian countries have shown that economic development has helped reduction of their poverty. Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence was chosen as the Best Corporate Citizen of Sri Lanka in 2012, by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the annual event. Consumer durable firm, Singer Sri Lanka won the second place, while Ceylon Business Limited was the second runner up of the Best Corporate Citizen Award 2012.

All three, along with other title winners were facilitated at a gala event, held at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel last evening. National Development Bank was chosen as the winner in the less than Rs. 15 billion turnover category, while Standard Chartered Bank and People’s Leasing Company became the first and second runner up in the same category.

Aitken Spence also bagged two sector awards for, Environment and Economic Contribution & Governance while the sector award for Social, People and CSR was won by Singer. The EU SWITCH-Asia Greening Hotels Awards 2012 was also presented at the event.

Heritance Tea Factory won the award for the Best Green Hotel in recognition of outstanding commitment to enhance environmental performance in the Large Hotels and Boutique Hotels category, while Siddhalepa Ayurveda Health Resort won the Best Green Hotel award in the SME Hotels category.

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