DHL-SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards kick off 2022 search for outstanding corporate achievements

The 2022 DHL-SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards (HKBA) have opened for nominations, as the city’s oldest peer-judged awards look to honour exemplary demonstrations of corporate excellence and management leadership.

The awards, held without interruption since 1990, honour outstanding achievements in seven categories this year, covering the outstanding business-person, executive, enterprise, China company, small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), start-up and international reputations. A lifetime achievement award is also available to honour the worthy recipient at the discretion of the judges.

Nominations, which end on September 23 starting today, can be submitted for free via the awards’ website,, or by email to nominations@hkbusinessawards.com in English. Eligibility requirements of the various awards are available on the HKBA’s website.

Winners of the 2021 DHL-SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards, during a gala dinner in Hong Kong on 2 December 2021: (L to R), Stanley Kwok, Co-Founder of KnitWarm Limited; Ronald Chan Yik-long, Executive Director of Modern Dental Group Limited; Donald Choi, Executive Director of ChinaChem Group; Professor Richard Wong, Provost and Chair of Economics, the University of Hong Kong; Ng Chee-choong, Senior Vice-President of DHL Express Hong Kong and Macau; Kenneth Lo, Chairman of Crystal International Group Limited; Gary Liu, CEO of South China Morning Post; Sebastian Paredes, Chief Executive Officer of DBS Hong Kong; Sammi Hung, Regional Head of Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Company Limited; Benny Liu, Founder of HK Decoman Technology Limited. Photo: May Tse

For the 2022 awards, the immediate past winners of 2021 will join the judging panel. They are Crystal International Group Limited’s founder and chairman Kenneth Lo (Businessperson award), ChinaChem Group’s executive director and chief executive Donald Choi (Executive award), DBS Bank Hong Kong Limited’s chief executive officer Sebastian Paredes (Enterprise award), Modern Dental Group Limited’s chairman Dr. Ronald Chan Yik-long (International award), HK Decoman Technology Limited’s founder Benny Liu (SME award), and

KnitWarm Limited’s co-founder Stanley Kwok (Start-up award).

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical, winner of the 2021 China Company award, declined to join the judging panel this year.

The panel of judges is anchored by adjudicators from a number of business chambers, universities, and the representatives of DHL and South China Morning Post. The chairman of the judging panel is Professor Richard Wong Yue-chim, the University of Hong Kong’s provost, deputy vice-chancellor, chair of economics and the Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy.

Other judges include HSBC’s head of commercial banking for Hong Kong and Macau Frank Fang, The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce’s chief executive George Leung Siu-kay, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council’s (HKTDC) deputy executive director Patrick Lau, Karen Yeung, the national president of the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong (JCI Hong Kong) and Janice Choi of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.

DHL is represented by DHL Express Hong Kong and Macau’s Senior Vice-President and Managing Director Ng Chee Choong, while SCMP is represented by Business Editor Eugene Tang.

source: https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3185083/dhl-scmps-2022-hong-kong-business-awards-open-nominations-honour