{"id":67540,"date":"2022-12-11T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=67540"},"modified":"2022-12-11T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:24:49","slug":"dangote-group-emerges-overall-most-responsible-business-at-seras-2022-sustainability-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/dangote-group-emerges-overall-most-responsible-business-at-seras-2022-sustainability-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote Group Emerges \u2018Overall Most Responsible Business\u2019 At SERAS 2022 Sustainability Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 Cement, Sugar, Salt Units also bag individual awards<\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s foremost conglomerate the Dangote Group won the coveted \u2018 Overall Most Responsible Business\u2019 Award, just as three of its subsidiaries clinched awards at the 16th edition of the Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Responsibility Awards (SERAS) held at the Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>At the well-attended event, which drew stakeholders across the industrial sector who had earlier submitted a record 151 entries for awards in 26 categories, cement manufacturing giant Dangote Cement Plc won an award for \u2018The Best Company in Reporting &amp; Transparency\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR), which participated in the SERAS for the first time in 2020, won the award of \u2018Best Company in Food Security\u2019, while Dangote Salt Plc also known as NASCON Plc won an award for the \u2018Best Company in Gender Equality \/ Women Empowerment\u2019, on a night which saw the Dangote Industries Limited cart away four prestigious awards.<\/p>\n<p>The awards won underline the Dangote Group\u2019s corporate culture, which seeks to promote and embed sustainability across its various Business Units and pan-African operations, through alternative fuel usage, energy management systems, circular economy, waste management processes, women and youth empowerment, and social interaction with various host communities wherever the conglomerate operates.<\/p>\n<p>In another milestone showcased in the SERAS Awards event programme, Dangote Group and its philanthropic arm, Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) were recognised among those participants who have featured at SERAS over the last 15 years, alongside other companies like Guinness Plc, Nigeria LNG Limited, Mobil, Airtel, Lafarge, Access Bank Plc, Glo Telecommunications, Zenith Bank Plc, Unilever, Nestle, Channels Television e.t.c.<\/p>\n<p>Group Chief Branding &amp; Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Limited, Mr. Anthony Chiejina, reacting to the company\u2019s remarkable performance at this year\u2019s SERAS said: \u201cDIL\u2019s approach is focused on mainstreaming sustainable practices across the operations of the organisation. This underlines the importance that we attach to our people, communities and other key stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SERAS is Africa\u2019s leading Sustainability and CSR Award. Since inception in 2007, and up till 2019, the award has attracted over 1,242 from over 300 organisations. In the 2020 edition, 98 institutions participated from 7 African countries, including Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa. This year, 93 organisations sent in entries from across Africa.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>In her address to welcome participants at the 2022 SERAS, Executive Director, TruCSR\/The SERAS CSR Awards Africa, Mary Ephraim noted that, \u201cCSR and sustainability have gone through their evolution. 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This is why we chose the theme \u2013 Climate, Circularity and the Future of Sustainability: Bridging the SDGs Gap through Impact Investing\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Caption<\/p>\n<p>From Left&#8211; NASCON And Allied Company plc, Kingsley Emeh, HSSE, Idogesit Udoh,NASCON, Risk Analyst, Ifeoluwa Adeniyi, CFO&#8217;s Office, Diseye Oba, HSSE &amp; Sustainability, Morayo Tukuru, Investor relations, John Udeh HSSE,\u00a0 with the Best Company in Genders Women Empowerment Award at The SERAS Award 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s foremost conglomerate the Dangote Group won the coveted \u2018 Overall Most Responsible Business\u2019 Award, just as three of its subsidiaries clinched awards at the 16th edition of the Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Responsibility Awards (SERAS) held at the Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":67541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[1351],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-67540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-news","tag-dangote-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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