Enterprises honoured with HCM City Golden Brand Award
Thirty-two enterprises in various areas including building materials, consumer goods, garment and textile, food and services received the Ho Chi Minh City Golden Brand Award from the municipal People’s Committee on January 14 for the outstanding achievements they have carved out to develop brands for products and services.
The HCM City Golden Brand Award is presented to businesses with outstanding achievements in developing brands for products and services. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Thirty-two enterprises in various areas including buildingmaterials, consumer goods, garment and textile, food and services received theHo Chi Minh City Golden Brand Award from the municipal People’s Committee onJanuary 14 for the outstanding achievements they have carved out to develop brandsfor products and services.
Themed“Renovation and Sustainability”, the fourth award honoured businesses with hightransparency and legal compliance, proactive engagement in social activities,sound human resources policies, innovation and excellent marketing and branddevelopment strategies.
Renownednames included Nutifood Nutrition Food JSC, Viettien Garment JSC, Dien QuangLamp JSC, Masan Consumer, and VISSAN JSC.
Among the businesses, 13 won the award for the first time while 19 others gotit for the second time. The 32 award winners created jobs for 57,000 labourers, while generating more than 255 trillion VND (10.4 billion USD) in revenue and contributingnearly 1 trillion VND to the state budget in the past year.
Speaking at the awarding ceremony, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’sCommittee Vo Van Hoan expressed his hope that the award winners will continueworking to promote the value of the award, and play a pioneering role in carrying out the city’s policies on green growth and digital transformation.
The annual award, jointly held by the municipal Department of Industry andTrade and the Sai Gon Times Group, aims at becoming a prestigiousone that helps branch out the HCM City brand andVietnam national brand.
Overthe past years, the honoured enterprises have attained significantachievements, been able to adapt to challenging periods and paid due attentionto green transition./.
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The HCM City Golden Brand Award is presented to businesses with outstanding achievements in developing brands for products and services. (Photo: VNA) 
