Aboitiz bags Agora Award

MANILA, Philippines — The Aboitiz Group recently bagged the prestigious Agora Award for Outstanding Achievement in Advocacy Marketing in support of the United Nations Global Compact. The award is given by the Philippine Marketing Association to Philippine-based companies that have institutionalized advocacy marketing, corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, and initiatives that support the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Filipino beneficiaries.

As a company that operates in various critical sectors, the group recognizes its unique responsibility to its stakeholders: building products and services as an inclusive business, in order to create opportunities to uplift the group’s partner communities across the country.

The Aboitiz group’s sustainability initiatives and their key performance indicators highlight the organization’s contribution to poverty reduction, education, climate change, responsible consumption, disaster preparedness, technological innovation and institutional partnership.

The #OneAboitiz sustainability framework of the company holistically looks into the 17 SDGs as an ecosystem that impacts the quality of life of the communities via corporate social responsibility programs that develop enterprises through sustainable means such as capacity building.