Masan Group Corporation wins the Community Initiative Award at the 2021Asia Corporate Excellence and Sustainability Awards (Photo courtesy of Masan) Hanoi (VNA) – Masan Group Corporation has obtained the Community Initiative Award at the 2021 Asia Corporate Excellence and Sustainability Awards.
The awards honour companies and individuals in Asia across a variety of leadership and corporate social responsibility categories, with the Community Initiative Award given to organisations that make great contributions to creating development opportunities for communities through their initiatives and approaches.
The winners are chosen based on growth, human resources, creativity, and brand influence in Asia and their commitment to sustainable development goals.
In its eighth year now, the award saw 154 finalists selected from 420 nominations from 15 countries.
Masan is known as the leading consumer goods and retail corporation in Vietnam with a market capitalisation of 8 billion USD. The company said it considers sustainable development as a strategy to make a meaningful contribution to the development of communities.
In 2020, the company spent over 30 billion VND (1.32 million USD) to community activities. It donated more than 270 billion VND to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021./.
