MPIC harvests excellence awards from CSR groups

MANILA, Philippines - Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the largest infrastructure investment firm in the country belonging to MVP’s group of companies, brought home recently several prestigious and most coveted awards handed out by credible institutions and global organizations.

In Hong Kong,  MPIC was feted with the most number of awards in the 4th Asian Excellence Awards of Corporate Governance Asia held in Hong Kong, receiving recognitions for excellence and outstanding achievements in investor communications, business ethics, financial performance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental practices and corporate communications.

In selecting the winners this year, Corporate Governance Asia, a publication that specializes in corporate governance issues in Hong Kong and the rest of this region, culled scores and data from its 12,000 readers around the Asian region.

For two consecutive years,  Jose Ma. K. Lim, MPIC president and chief executive officer, and David J. Nicol, the company’s chief financial officer, were adjudged anew as Asia Best CEO and Best CFO, respectively.

The two top level management executives received the distinctions due to their strong and solid leadership in guiding the board of directors and the company management in growing/expanding the business, while upholding the highest ethics in business practices. 

Albert William L. Pulido, MPIC’s vice president for investor relations also received the Best IR Professionals award in exemplifying and articulating the company’s business to the investment community.

Corporate Governance Asia also awarded MPIC with the Best Corporate Communications Team, Best Investor Relations Co., Best CSR, and Best Environmental Responsibility for its sustainable CSR efforts in launching programs on education, environmental awareness and economic empowerment and in institutionalizing and in weaving into the company’s business goals of providing clean water, continuous and reliable electricity, safe and accessible toll roads and world-class hospital care. 

In  Bali, Indonesia, MPIC recently was bestowed the Platinum Award for Global CSR 2014, one of the first companies in Asia to receive the award for environmental excellence.

The Global CSR Awards 2014 is Asia’s most prestigious recognition awards program for CSR, which recognizes and honors companies for outstanding, innovative and world-class products, services, projects and programs implemented in the past or the present.

The award was given to MPIC during the 68th Annual Global CSR Summit and Awards held in Bali, Indonesia from April 3 to 4, 2014.

This is the first time that a Platinum Award for Best Environmental Excellence was given by Global CSR, and MPIC is the first recipient of the prestigious recognition. 

The Best Environmental Excellence Award is given to companies that has successfully implemented a major program in areas such as energy efficiency, extended product  responsibility, green product design, waste reduction, sustainable business practices, and water conservation. The company must have the integrated environmental performance into its sustainable development strategy and has delivered proven business benefits.

Earlier this year, MPIC received the prestigious Anvil Award of Excellence for its longest running coastal clean-up drive campaign, Shore It Up 5, Rescue, Restore, Revive. The five-leg, year-long 2013 Shore It Up concluded in Siargao, Surigao Del Norte recently.

The award was bestowed to MPIC for executing PR programs on a sustained basis thereby successfully intensifying its information drive to address the needs of the various coastal communities, thus enhancing its thrust to work for the preservation of the country’s rich marine resources.

MPIC is now preparing for the 6th edition of the environmental awareness campaign this year, with new programs and activities being lined up by the MVP group of companies and partner organizations to sustain the gains of the previous Shore It Up advocacy.

“These prestigious awards only show that we are on the right path in bringing back to the community what they deserve to get from our business operations, and are in line with our responsibility in helping the country’s nation-building program,” MPIC chairman Manny V. Pangilinan said.

“MPIC, together with all our subsidiaries and associate companies maintain active CSR programs as part of our culture of giving back to communities in which it invests and serves,” he concluded.