ACC Limited, India’s leading cement manufacturer, has won the CNBC-TV18’s India Business Leaders Award in the category India Corporate Citizen of the Year 2008. The awards were presented by Accenture to honour the best in Indian business.
The award was received by Mr Sumit Banerjee, Managing Director, on behalf of the Company, on January 22, 2009 at the hands of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Mr Ashok Chavan.
The winners were judged by business leaders like Mr Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries Ltd. (Chairperson, jury), Mr Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group, Mr Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC, Mr R Seshasayee, Managing Director, Ashok Leyland, Mr Jagdish Khattar, CMD, Carnation Auto India Pvt Ltd, and Mr Raghav Bahl, MD, Network 18, following a rigorous evaluation by University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (GSB), Asia campus, and Development Dimensions International (DDI).
