Hayleys wins Best Corporate Citizen Award 2010

Hayleys PLC won the Best Corporate Citizen Award 2010 at a ceremony held recently at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo. Runners up were Hatton National Bank and MAS Intimates.

The Awards, conducted by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, for the 7th consecutive year, honoured the corporate community in their efforts to promote Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Business. Minister of External Affairs, Prof. G. L. Peiris was chief guest and the keynote speaker was Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, Co-Laureate, Nobel Prize for Peace 2007.

Five category winners, for Environment, Customer Relations, Employee Relations, Community Relations and Economic Performance as well as the top 10 corporate citizens also received awards that evening.

The top three places for the 'Under Rs. 10b 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 walked away with the award for the Customer/Supplier Relations category and Aitken Spence received the award for Community Relations & CSR. MAS Intimates bagged the award in the Environment category.

Aviva NDB Insurance won the Best Corporate Citizen Award for the 'under 10b turnover' category, with Link Natural Products and People's Leasing Co. Ltd as runners.

The top 10 Best Corporate Citizens, in alphabetical order were 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.