The sampath team with the award

Sampath Bank: Best Corporate Citizen 2009

Sampath Bank walked away with the Best Corporate Citizen Award on December 10th at the Best Corporate Citizens Awards 2009. The Awards, conducted by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, honoured the Corporate Community in their efforts to promote Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at a gala awards ceremony held at Cinnamon Lakeside, Colombo.

The runners-up in the main category were Cargills (Ceylon) PLC (1st runner-up) and Aitken Spence PLC (2nd runner-up).

BAM Holdings Ltd won the "Best Corporate Citizen Award" for the 'under 10bn turnover' category, with Diesel & Motor Engineering PLC and People's Leasing Co. Ltd as 1st and 2nd runners-up respectively.

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 winner for the Employee Relations category was Colombo Dockyard PLC while Hatton National Bank PLC was the winner in the Governance and Economic Contribution category.