Aitken Spence bagged the Best Corporate Citizen Award 2012 at the annual Best Corporate Citizen Award ceremony organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, at Cinnamon Grand yesterday. Singer (Sri Lanka) became the first runner up, while Ceylon Biscuits Limited was the second runner up.

National Development Bank was the winner in the less than Rs.15 billion turnover category. Standard Chartered Bank and People’s Leasing Company became the first and the second runner up in the same category.

The ten best corporate citizens were Aitken Spence, Ceylon Biscuits Limited, Diesel & Motor Engineering, HSBC, National Development Bank, People’s Leasing Company, Singer (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka Telecom, Standard Chartered Bank and Unilever Sri Lanka. Aitken Spence also bagged two sector awards for Environment and Economic contribution and Governance, while the sector award for Social: People and CSR was won by Singer (Sri Lanka).

The awards ceremony also recognized organisations excelling in diverse areas in business and the category award for employee relations was won by Ceylon Biscuits Limited, while Singer (Sri Lanka) carried off the awards for both Customer and Supplier Relations and Community Relations and CSR.

Economic Contribution Award was won by Sri Lanka Telecom and Financial Performance award was won by Aitken Spence. Diesel & Motor Engineering was awarded the category award for Governance and Reporting.