John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) proudly donned the overall crown of being Sri Lanka’s most transparent company at the ACCA Sri Lanka Sustainability Reporting Awards, under the aegis of chief guest Resident Coordinator, UN Sri Lanka and Resident Representative, UNDP Sri Lanka Una McCauley. JKH also topped the Conglomerates and Diversified category, while Diesel & Motor Engineering PLC (DIMO) further etched its corporate stewardship by emerging Runner Up overall and winning the Retail and Trading category. The fifteen awards presented across seven industry categories demonstrated a comprehensive coverage of the three fundamental pillars of sustainability, namely economic, social and environment and were selected from nearly sixty applicants judged by an expert panel of judges headed by Franklyn Amerasinghe.
In the banking category, Sampath Bank emerged the winner while HNB came in runner up, while Expolanka Holdings was the runner up in the Conglomerates & Diversified category. Winning the Financial Services & Insurance category was Union Assurance with the Runner Up being Citizens Development Business Finance, while in the Retail & Trading sector Runner Up was American & Efird Lanka. John Keells Hotels and Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings were adjudged Winner and Runner Up in the Leisure & Connected Services and Nawaloka Hospitals won the General Services & Utilities category. Seemasahitha Sanasa Rakshana Samagama was the winner in the SME category and Vidulanka PLC emerge Runner Up.