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2nd Annual Global CSR Summit & Awards Attracts Participation Of Top Companies

Announcement posted by ACN Newswire 09 Jun 2010

Singapore, June 9, 2010-(ACN Newswire)-The Global CSR Awards, Asia's most prestigious award to recognising the efforts of companies in Asia and the rest of the world is back for the 2nd year. The award is held in conjunction with the Global CSR Summit and will be hosted at the Raffles Town Club, Singapore on 29-30 June 2010.

The Global CSR Awards is an annual award organised by The Pinnacle Group International. The programme recognises and honours companies for outstanding, innovative and world class products, services, products and programmes implemented in 2009/2010 as part of their broad corporate and CSR strategy.

"At this year's 2nd Annual Global CSR Summit and Awards, we want to celebrate the resilience of companies that have not only weathered the financial storm but remained resolute in trying times, to continuously uphold the highest standards in CSR while developing innovative and sustainable solutions and products for greater profitability and improving the welfare of societies," commented Mr Melvin Chan, Senior Director for The Pinnacle Group International.

This year the distinguished judges for the CSR awards includes:

- Mr. Howard Shaw, Executive Director, Singapore Environment Council (SEC)
- Mr Paul Supramanium, Partner, Law Asia
- Mr Jonas Kor, Director, Marketing & Communications, World Vision International
- Ms Saleemah Ismail, President, UNIFEM

Dr. Geoffrey Williams, Founder & Managing Director of OWW Consulting Pte. Ltd, a leading private consulting company in Asia and the Middle East, has been appointed as advisor to the judging committee.

The panel of judges assembled reflect a range of stakeholders from the corporate, professional and civil society communities. Independence is highly valued where judges are required to declare any potential conflict of interest with the nominees before any vote is cast.

Winners of the prestigious Global CSR Awards 2010 will be announced during the awards gala luncheon on 30 June 2010. Details of the winners will be published on the Business Times on 5 July 2010.

Last year's top winners were Kulim, FedEx, IBM, Globe, P&G, The Body Shop, Carl Zeiss, Merck, YTL and TNT.


AboutPinnacle Group International

The Pinnacle Group International is a leading player in the conference industry in Asia designing and launching its own brand of conferences, events and training solutions with a specialisation in finance and investment, real estate, infrastructure and business continuity. Pinnacle is headquartered in Singapore with a supporting regional office located in Shanghai. We pride in our ability to anticipate and read underlying socio-economic and investment trends in emerging and developed markets, creating brands and events to capture these opportunities and launching them with our clients and partners in both regional and international markets. For more information, pls visit www.tpgi.org


Contact:
Fanni Ding  Marketing Executive  The Pinnacle Group International  fanni.ding@tpgi.org