Ceylon Chamber presents Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2020
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce recently held the Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability (BCCS) Award 2020, for the seventeenth consecutive year. The event is held annually with the objective of recognising the importance of Corporate Sustainability in Sri Lanka, and encouraging businesses to adopt best practices to create goods and services, using processes and systems that ensure efficient use of resources, minimize pollution of the environment, are safe and healthy for workers, consumers and communities and enhance the well-being of all communities, in line with achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This year being a challenging year with quite a lot of new experience due to the pandemic; the awards also focused on emergency preparedness, resilience and stakeholder management during the pandemic and also contingency plans of the corporates. Also, the entire process was managed using a digital platform.
Companies that compete in the Ceylon Chamber’s annual BCCS Award believe that it serves a greater purpose beyond the accolade itself, acting as a measure of their year- on- year progress, as well a performance evaluation alongside peers in their respective industries.
BCCS Awards are judged in two categories, distinguished by the annual turnover: those companies with a turnover above Rs. 15bn are judged in Category A, and those below are judged in Category B. This is to ensure that the BCCS Award is a holistic competition, encouraging the noble efforts of corporates both big and small to interact responsibly with its stakeholders.
Applications each year are evaluated by Sri Lanka’s best thought leaders of sustainability, and the sustainability title awarded by the country’s apex business chamber is an accolade worth competing for. Continuing its efforts to take sustainability to grassroots level, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce encourages business enterprises to apply for BCCS Awards each year and join a journey of sustainable practice.
The recent Best Corporate Citizen Award ceremony was held at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo, on 29th March 2021.
BEST CORPORATE CITIZEN SUSTAINABILITY AWARD 2020
The BCCS Award assesses the interactions of a corporate entity, private or public, listed or unlisted, with its stakeholders; Environment, Employees, Customers, Suppliers, Community, Government and Shareholders.
Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award Winners
Category A Winner:
Limited (CBL Group)
First Runner Up: Aitken Spence PLC Second Runner Up: Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC
Category B Winner:
Tea Company PLC
Top Ten Corporate Citizen Category Winners:
1. Aitken Spence PLC
2. Bank of Ceylon
3. CBL Investments Limited (CBL Group)
4. Citizens Development Business Finance PLC
5. Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC
6. Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company PLC
7. Hatton National Bank PLC
8. National Development Bank PLC
9. Nestlé Lanka PLC 10. Sri Lanka Telecom PLC
Triple Bottom Line Award Winners
Environmental Sustainability (Planet): Aitken Spence PLC
Social Sustainability (People): Aitken Spence PLC
Economic Sustainability (Profit): Bank of Ceylon
Category Award Winners
• Corporate E nv i r o n m e n t a l Commitment: Aitken Spence PLC Environmental Integration: Aitken Spence PLC Environment Beyond the Business: Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company PLC Employee Relations: Bank of Ceylon Customer Relations: Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company PLC Community Relations: Nestlé Lanka PLC
Governance: Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC
Financial Performance: Bank of Ceylon
Economic Contribution: Sri Lanka Telecom PLC
Sector Award Winners
• Construction Sector: Access Engineering PLC Diversified Holdings: Aitken Spence PLC
Finance Sector: Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC
• Manu f a c t u r i n g S e c t o r: CBL Investments Limited (CBL Group) Other: Sri Lanka Telecom PLC
Best Presented Application: Nestlé Lanka PLC Certificates for Consistent Commitment and Continuous Improvement
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Environmental Commitment: Aitken Spence PLC Environmental Integration: Aitken Spence PLC Environment Beyond the Business: Aitken Spence PLC
Employee Relations: Aitken Spence PLC Customer Relations: Aitken Spence PLC Community Relations: People’s Leasing and Finance PLC Governance: National Development Bank Plc
Financial Performance: Sirio Ltd Economic Contribution: Hatton National Bank PLC
BEST PROJECTS SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS 2020
The Best Projects Sustainability Awards were introduced by the Ceylon Chamber in 2007 to encourage businesses to think beyond their bottom line by investing some of their gains in philanthropic activities that benefit the environment (Planet) and society at large (People). Awards were presented for the best four sustainability projects, while all projects that achieved a high standard received Certificates of Merit. These awards cover a wide arena of activities. Sustainability is both the business challenge and the business opportunity of the 21st century. Innovative, fast-growing and resilient businesses will be those that adapt efficiently to and capitalize effectively on this new operating environment. This Award acknowledges that making sustained, continuous profit has to go hand in hand with preserving the planet and serving people.
Winners Best Projects Sustainability Awards 2020
Water for Life - Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd
The MAS Mangroves - Mas Intimates (Pvt) Ltd
3. 100% re Aqua - Unilever Sri Lanka “Positioning of flavored Jakfruit in ready-to-eat form in the international market as a substitute for meat” - HJS Condiments Limited
Merit Certificates
Horana Manufacturing - Unilever Sri Lanka
“Cancer Counselling Centre at Apeksha Hospital, Maharagama” - Hatton National Bank PLC
Udara - Unilever Sri Lanka
The Rainforest Ecolodge (Pvt) Ltd - The Rainforest Ecolodge (Pvt) Ltd Suabhagya - Unilever Sri Lanka Establishment of INSEE Ecocycle Resource Recovery Center (RRC) - INSEE Ecocycle Lanka (Private) Limited
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