2016.11.10
The 9th TCSA - Top Three Foreign Corporate for The Very First Time
The 9th Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards (TCSA) is to encourage foreign enterprise in Taiwan to actively expose sustainability practice information, have clear value, principle and vision toward corporate sustainability, clear management goal , concept, and combine sustainable strategy into management principles. The TCSA added " The Most Prestigious Sustainability Award" to encourage foreign enterprise to participate corporate sustainability effort. Three global enterprise won this year's "Benchmark Sustainable Foreign Enterprise Award", they are Taiwan Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company (3M), Hewlett Packard Company ( Hewlett Packard Enterprise & HP Inc.), and Mercedes-Benz.
The TCSA is organized by Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy (TAISE), it is the ninth year for TAISE to host this event, grand total of 173 corporate have participated, the total turnover of all the companies equals to 88.12% of Taiwan's annual GDP in 2015, this indicates the importance of CSR issues and this award. To bring awareness of corporate social responsibilities to upper level, and encourage corporate to put effort into social responsibilities connect with international community, TCSA's reviewing processes and awarding ceremony will be organized by Taiwan Academy of Corporate Sustainability (TACS) from 2016, which is newly established this year. To make this award's review process fair, justified, and rigorous, total of 228 reviewing Judges including volunteers and distinguished experts who are interested in sustainable development, and were invited to participated in review process.
Large international corporate face many challenge in recent years, like climate change, insufficient material source, local human rights all have great impact on sustainable management and development. Therefore local sustainability operation became more and more important each year. The first "The Most Prestigious Sustainability Award – Top Three Foreign Corporate" prize winner, 3M uphold concept of “Technology advancing every company”, “Products enhancing every home” and “Innovation improving every life”, help move whole industry forward with sustainable development. David Packard once said "The betterment of our society is not a job to be left to a few. It is a responsibility to be shared by all" and this is the core value embedded into Hewlett Packard Company's DNA for both of Enterprise & HP Inc. CSR of Mercedes-Benz Taiwan has been listed as one of the long-term strategic objectives of our dedicated to CSR with the core theme “Inspiring the Future”.
TCSA " The Most Prestigious Sustainability Award – Top Three Foreign Corporate" provides an opportunity for foreign enterprises in Taiwan to show their sustainability performance and create win-win situation, to benefit human resource development, create foreign enterprise profit gain, local employment, economic and social development. This year's TCSA view process is much more rigorous than last year, prize-winning foreign enterprise's ESG performance receive great results, they are not only the models for Taiwan corporate, also worthy to learn from for any enterprise. This year's awards ceremony and summit will be held on Wednesday November 23rd 2016. Welcome to participate and please visit the official web site TCSA (tcsaward.org.tw) for additional information.