Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Awards (AREA)
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Background
Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Awards (AREA) is an award ceremony for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities organised by Enterprise Asia. It awards Asian businesses “for championing sustainable and responsible entrepreneurship” in six categories: Green Leadership, Investment in People, Corporate Governance, Health Promotion, Social Empowerment, Small and Medium Enterprises CSR and Responsible Business Leadership.[2]In 2017, ‘Small and Medium Enterprises CSR’ category was removed from the list of categories and ‘Corporate Governance’ category was added in 2018. Also, ‘Circular Economy Leadership’, ‘Corporate Sustainability Reporting’ categories were introduced to the list of awarding categories in the years 2020 and 2022 respectively.[2]
Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (CTC) received an award under the Social Empowerment category in 2015 and 2016 (Image 1).[1][3][4]
Enterprise Asia
Enterprise Asia is a non-governmental organisation working for the entrepreneurial development of Asian business enterprises. It holds two award ceremonies each year, the aforementioned AREA and APEA (Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards). Its offices are situated in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand.[5]
AREA
Businesses with headquarters in Asia can nominate themselves for AREA awards. The nomination fee for the year 2016 was USD 300.[6] A panel of judges select the awardees according to a marking scheme based on innovation, solution-oriented results, sustainability and integration of the project.[7]
Other Tobacco Companies Awarded by AREA
Other tobacco companies awarded by AREA include (the year and the category are mentioned in brackets);[2]
- British American Tobacco (BAT) Bangladesh – Bonayan BAT Bangladesh’s Flagship Program (2014 – Green Leadership), “Probaho” (Flow of Water) (2015 – Green Leadership) and Shehzad Munim (2016 – Responsible Business Leadership), IPM (Integrated Pest Management) Club (2017 – Social Empowerment), Deepto: The Solar Home Systems - Bringing Light to Off-Grid Communities (2018 – Green Leadership)
- PT HM Sampoerna TBK - Empowering Tobacco Farmers Community through Community Learning Group (CLG) (2015 – Social Empowerment) and Paul Norman Janelle (2015 – Responsible Business Leadership), Access to clean water program (2018 – Social Empowerment), Carbon Footprint Management in Finished Goods Transportation (2019 – Green Leadership), Carbon and Water Management (2020 – Green leadership) and Sampoerna’s Commitment to Anti-Corruption (2020 – Corporate Governance)
- British American Tobacco (BAT) Vietnam - Build and Elevate Future-Fit Talent (2021 – Investment in People) and Delivery with Integrity (2021 - Corporate Governance)
- British American Tobacco (BAT) Taiwan - Be the Change – Putting People and Our Society First (2022 – Investment in People)
Alcohol Companies Awarded by AREA
Alcohol companies awarded by AREA include (the year and the category are mentioned in brackets);[2]
- Heineken Malaysia Berhad - Water Stewardship Program (2021 – Green Leadership)
Other Sri Lankan Businesses Awarded by AREA
Other Sri Lankan businesses awarded by AREA include (the year and the category are mentioned in brackets);[2]
- CIC Agri Businesses Pvt Ltd – Keerthi B. Kotagama (2011 – Responsible Business Leadership)
- Asia Capital PLC – Glorious Jaffna Foundation (2012 – Social Empowerment)
- HSBC Sri Lanka – “Cocoshel” – A Business Built by Village Women (2012 – Social Empowerment) and Ecological Restoration of a traditional cascading tank system in Anuradhapura (2016 – Social Empowerment)
- Dutch Bay Resorts – Dutch Bay Foundation (2013 – Social Empowerment)
- Union Assurance – The School Traffic Warden Awareness (2013 – Social Empowerment)
- Nation Lanka PLC – Dinawamu Lanka Micro Finance Project (2013 – Investment in People)
- Expolanka Holdings PLC – Expo Medix (2013 – Health Promotion)
- Entrust Limited - Entrust Foundation ‘Helping Hands’ (2014 – Green Leadership)
- JLanka Technologies - “Towards a Greener Sri Lanka” Project (2014 – Green Leadership)
- Alliance Finance Company PLC - Environmentally Friendly Transport Solutions (2014 – Green Leadership)
- Expolanka Holdings PLC – Venture Engine (2015 – Social Empowerment)
- Hayleys Agriculture Holdings Ltd. – Seaweed Innovation Project - An alternative livelihood opportunity for Social Empowerment (2015 – Social Empowerment)
- Asian Alliance Insurance PLC - WIN Youth Empowerment Programme (2016 – Social Empowerment)
- Sampath Bank PLC – “Hope for a Life”- Endowment of Neuro Navigation System (2015 – Health Promotions) and Sampath Saviya (2016 – Social Empowerment)
- Puritas (Pvt) Limited - “Sath Diyawara” Drinking Water Based Broad Spectrum Community Development Project (2015 - Small and Medium Enterprises CSR and 2016 – Health promotion), “Going Beyond” Empowering Rural Communities (2016 – Social Empowerment)
- JLanka Power & Energy (Pvt) Ltd – Online Electricity Monitoring & Controlling System (2016 – Green Leadership)
- HSBC Sri Lanka - Ecological Restoration of a Traditional Cascading Tank System in Anuradhapura (2016 – Social Empowerment)
- Haycarb PLC – “Haritha Angara” Project (2017 – Green Leadership)
- Prosperous Capital & Credit Limited – “Haritha Lowak (Green World)” Project (2017 – Green Leadership)
- Kanrich Finance Limited – “Kanrich Thaksalawa” Project (2017 – Social Empowerment)
- Noritake Lanka Porcelain Private Limited - “Save the Next Generation” through Knuckles Forest Protection and Conservation (2020 – Green Leadership)
Tobacco Unmasked Resources
Other relevant TobaccoUnmasked entries:
The local language translations
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Daily News. CTC’s SADP wins ‘Social Empowerment Award’ 6 July 2016, accessed May 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 AREA website, 2017, accessed May 2017
- ↑ AREA Website. 2015 Hall of Fame, 2017, accessed May 2017
- ↑ AREA Website. 2016 Hall of Fame, 2017, accessed May 2017
- ↑ Enterprise Asia. Website, 2017, accessed May 2017
- ↑ AREA website. AREA Nomination, 2017, accessed May 2017
- ↑ AREA website. Award Judging Parameters, 2017, accessed May 2007