SM wins at 2019 Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards
(28 September 2020, Pasay City, Philippines) SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) won Bronze for Asia’s Best Sustainability Report (Digital) – the SMIC Sustainability Microsite category at the 5th Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards (ASRA), the most prestigious awards for reporting.
This adds to the SMIC Sustainability Report’s several international awards.
BDO also clinched Bronze for Asia’s Best Sustainability Report (First Time) Category.
SMIC’s award-winning report demonstrates the organization’s leadership in sustainability reporting and its commitment to creating long-term value for stakeholders.
The winners were selected from 461 entries received from 16 countries in Asia. The 2019 ASRA saw 80 shortlisted companies from 13 countries competing in the finals across 19 awards categories.
As institutional investors require greater accountability regarding a company’s sustainability performance, sustainability reporting has become an essential tool for communicating how the reporting organization manages its material economic, environmental, and social impacts, risks, and opportunities.
ASRA, the most prestigious recognition for sustainability reporting, has continuously raised the bar for quality and authenticity of reporting introducing healthy competition among companies in Asia.
View SMIC’s Sustainability Microsite here: https://www.sminvestments.com/sustainability/path-sustainability.
For more comprehensive information on the Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards, visit www.csrmatters.com
About SM Investments Corporation
SM Investments Corporation is a leading Philippine company that is invested in market-leading businesses in retail, banking, and property. It also invests in ventures that capture high growth opportunities in the emerging Philippine economy.
SM’s retail operations are the country’s largest and most diversified with its food, non-food, and specialty retail stores. SM’s property arm, SM Prime Holdings, Inc., is the largest integrated property developer in the Philippines with interests in malls, residences, offices, hotels and convention centers as well as tourism-related property developments. SM’s interests in banking are in BDO Unibank, Inc., the country’s largest bank and China Banking Corporation, the 6th largest bank.
For more about SM, visit www.sminvestments.com
For further inquiries, please contact:
Paul Arcenas
VP, Planning and Corporate Communications
SM Investments Corporation
E-mail: paul.arcenas@sminvestments.com
Tel. No. (632) 8857-0100 local 1039