By Monsi A. Serrano
Ayala Land has emerged as a big-time winner as the Stevie® Award announced this week the winners in the 18th Annual International Business Awards®, the world’s only international, all-encompassing business awards program.
High-achieving organizations and executives around the world have been recognized as Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners as they were selected from more than 3,700 nominations submitted by organizations in 65 nations.
A complete list of all 2021 Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners by category is available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.
More than 260 executives worldwide participated on 11 juries to determine the Stevie winners.
The top winner of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevies overall is Ayala Land of Makati City, Philippines with 34.
Other winners of multiple Stevie Awards are LLYC (33), IBM (23), Viettel Group (22), HALKBANK (20), DHL Express Worldwide (16), Masks4Missions (16), Telkom Indonesia (15), Yapi Kredi (13), Wolters Kluwer (13), Jeunesse Global (11), Tata Consultancy Services (11), Dubai Municipality (10), Zer Central Services and Trade (10), Zimat Consultores (10), AXA Sigorta (9), Google (8), Ooredoo Group (8), Sberbank of Russia (8), Isbank (7), MTR Corporation Limited (7), Thai Life Insurance (7), pH7 Communications (7), Sleepm Global, Inc. (7), Ulled Asociadios C.R.P. S.A. (7), Uniomedia Communications (7), and VNPT VinaPhone Corporation (7).
LLYC, a global communications and public affairs consulting firm headquartered in Madrid, Spain won 14 Gold Stevie Awards, more than any other organization in the competition.
All organizations worldwide are eligible to compete in the IBAs, and can submit entries in a wide range of categories for achievement in management, marketing, public relations, customer service, human resources, new products and services, technology, web sites, apps, events, and more.
The awards will be presented during a virtual awards ceremony on Dec. 8, 2021.
Stevie® Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.
Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.
Cambodia’s Neak Oknha Chen Zhi
Prince Holding Group (“Prince Group”), one of Cambodia’s largest and fastest-growing conglomerates, is proud to announce that Neak Oknha Chen Zhi, Chairman of Prince Group, has been recognized as Entrepreneur of the Year – Conglomerates, at the 2021 International Business Awards.
Chen Zhi is the only entrepreneur honored in a category that celebrates leaders running multi-industry businesses. He is one of three Asian leaders who are recognized for dynamic entrepreneurialism in different sectors during one of the most challenging years in corporate leadership.
Among a wave of new leaders of conglomerates, Chen Zhi considers innovative approaches to business that also makes a difference to societal goals
Over the past year, he called upon various member-companies of his Prince Group to make a difference in the lives of employees, affected communities and frontline staff.
In March, Chen Zhi donated US$3 million to the Cambodian government’s anti-pandemic efforts after an initial US$3 million donated last December to help Cambodia purchase 1 million COVID-19 vaccines. He also asked the Group to promptly organize several rounds of COVID-19 vaccinations for its 3,500+ employees.
Recently, Chen Zhi signed off on a long-term partnership with Caring for Cambodia, a leading education charity focusing on underprivileged students, and the Group will sponsor Career Preparation, an initiative seeking to help over 3,000 students navigate the uncertain post-pandemic educational and employment landscape by empowering them with necessary skills and knowledge.
In addition, Prince Group also won the Bronze Award in the Most Valuable Corporate Response (COVID-19 category) coming three months after it had earlier secured a win for the best COVID-19 Corporate Response at the eighth annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards in May.
The 2021 International Business Awards received more than 3,800 entries from organizations in 63 nations.
Chen Zhi’s Gold Stevie Award in the Entrepreneur of the Year – Conglomerates and Prince Group’s Bronze Stevie Award in the Most Valuable Corporate Response category were finalized after two months of voting by a panel of 260 professionals and key decision-makers from around the globe.
