National Business Excellence Awards launched

CSR and environmental sustainability emphasised:

M F Jabir

The National Chamber of Commerce launched the National Business Excellence Awards (NBEA) 2013 its prestigious business benchmark event on Wednesday, in a press briefing held at the Colombo Hilton.

The event is held for the 10th consecutive year, to recognize the best performing business organizations. Selected business organizations that excelled in overall performance and made significant contributions to the socio economic development of the country are recognized every year under this award scheme.

Sunil Wijesinha, President NCCSL & Chairman of NBEA Steering Committee addressing the event said NBEA was the most sought after business excellence schemes in the country. He said over the years, many corporates have been interested in participating in this awards scheme and have won many awards. Wijesinha said their scheme had been somewhat unique, because it not only rewarded overall excellence, but also rewarded criteria of excellence.

“Any awards scheme has to evolve in a way that it will cater to the current requirements of the business community and we have to incorporate new features as and when we see the need for such change and many changes would be made to the new model that would come to place from 2013 onwards. We place a lot of emphasis on corporate social and environmental sustainability which we have incorporated into the new model,” Wijesinha added.

NBEA is an unique national awards scheme as it evaluates the overall performance of a company and selects the cream of the cream of business in the country for awards. NBEA throughout the last 9 years, had gained high reputation and recognition among the business community due to its high standard and professionalism.

The awards ceremony would be held on November 27, 2013 at Hotel-Hilton. ANCL is the official print media for the event.