While
Hoang Minh Nhat, founder of the Minh Nhat bread chain, was recognized in the
category of “highest growth potential”, General Director of the Chau Thong Co.,
Ltd. Nguyen Thi My Lien was honored with the special prize.
Hoang Minh Nhat (second from right), founder of the Minh Nhat bread
chain, recognized in the category of “highest growth potential”
The
APEC BEST Award and the “best social impact” award went to Rika Yajima, founder
and CEO of Japan’s Aeru company.
The
“most innovative business model” award was granted to Maria Gracia
Dalgalarrando Haritcalde, founder and CEO of MOOWUP of Chile.
The
winner of the “international attractiveness” category was Russian entrepreneur
Natalia Larchenko, founder and CEO of Matryoshka Rus Ltd.
Meanwhile,
the “best green project” award was presented to Bernadette de Los
Santos from the Philippines.
They
were among 12 women from member economies who took part in the 2017 APEC BEST
Award – APEC’s first contest for women entrepreneurs.
To
win the prizes, they presented their firms’ vision, customers, finance and
personnel issues and later answered questions raised by the jury.
The
main idea of the APEC BEST Award, initiated by Russia, is spreading the best
practices of women-owned companies among the APEC economies and encouraging
business ladies to apply promising business models based on domestic success
stories.
The
first APEC BEST Award was presented in Lima in 2016 when Peru was the host of
APEC.
This
year’s event was co-sponsored by Vietnam, Japan, Chile, Chinese Taipei and
China. It formed part of the ongoing 2017 APEC Women and the Economy Forum in
Hue city, the Central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
Founded
in 1989, the 21-economy APEC is the Asia Pacific’s premier economic forum. Its
primary goal is to support sustainable economic growth and prosperity in the
Asia-Pacific region. The member economies account for 39 percent of the world
population, 57 percent of the world GDP and 47 percent of the global trade,
according to statistics in 2014.
Vietnam
joined APEC in 1998 and is hosting APEC events this year after the first time
in 2006.
Source: VNA