The annual awards aim to honour enterpriseswith trusted brand names and efficient operations, and offer consumersinformation about trusted brands with high-quality products.
FrieslandCampina Vietnam was the firstcompany in Vietnam to obtain four international quality certificates: ISO9000:2008 for quality, ISO 14000:2004 for the environment; ISO 22000:2005 forfood safety and hygiene, and OHSAS 18001: 2007 for safety and occupationalhealth from Bureau Veritas, the global leader in testing, inspections andcertification.
The company was ranked among the 100 most sustainable businesses of2017 for its contributions to the sustainable development of the country.
Its programme for the milk industry development, Den Dom Dom, which builds newschools in disadvantaged areas, provides nutrition education and does research,bring benefits to the community. For instance, it has collaborated with the RedCross for a campaign called Drinking Milk- Exercising- Healthy that benefits75,000 children at 112 schools nation-wide.
It also is working with Agriterra, a Dutch agriculture agency founded in 1997,to promote, facilitate and support lasting cooperation between ruralorganisations in the Netherlands and in developing countries, to train Vietnamesefarmers in best practices.-VNA