ABOUT SME100™ AWARDS
www.sme100.asia
It’s the premier regional awards for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Awards identify and recognise SMEs based on a basket of quantitative and qualitative criteria with a focus on growth (turnover, profit and market share) and resilience (best practices, sustainability and vision).
SME100™ Awards is an Annual Recognition programme organised by SME Magazine, naming the fastest moving businesses of the SME sector. To promote recognition of top businesses in a lucrative and dynamic market, the SME100™ Awards has served as a symbol separating the best among the great.
The SME100™ Awards since its establishment has served as pinnacle of trust and benchmark of reliability among business owners. Be it business ventures, investors, or clients foreign and domestic alike, the SME100 Awards has become the beacon of attention on all platforms. Available to both Malaysia and Singapore, the SME Magazine has managed to uphold prestige for the dynamic market of SMEs through the SME100™Awards.
Awardees are also featured in a Special Edition of the SME magazine and other supporting publications. They also participate in other programmes under the SME100™ Framework.
SME100™ Awards is the highest accolade for an SME to aspire for!
HISTORY OF SME100™ AWARDS
Since its inception in 2009, SME100™ Awards Malaysia has surveyed over 8,200 nominees to sought out the fastest moving business within the SME sector. Driven by the initial objective of deriving a differentiating factor among the sector, the award has now come to be recognised as a prestigious benchmark attracting the attention of investors and clients, domestic and overseas.
Independently researched, ranked and published by SME Magazine, SME100™ ranks the top 100 fast moving companies in selected countries in Asia based on both quantitative and qualitative criteria. Progressing upon the need to establish a systematic and impartial scoring system, the award has since then partnered with Cheng & Co as the official auditing form to demarcate eligible winners. Questionnaires/participation forms were sent to 5,000 pre-selected SMEs in each country based on a proportionate representation of the 20 industry grouping using SME100™Scorecard.
JUDGING BENCHMARKS
Both quantitative and qualitative benchmarks are employed to determine the winners and their rankings within the list.
For the full list visit: http://sme100.asia/participate.php
INDUSTRY GROUPINGS
The Award is given in 20 selected industry groupings, and is ranked across all groupings in 1 to 100 orders.
- Agriculture, Livestock, Plantations and Commodities
- Automotive
- Chemical and Plastics
- Construction, Property Development and Building Materials
- Consumer Goods
- Education and Training
- Electrical and Electronics
- Financial Services
- Food & Beverage
- Furniture and Wood based Manufacturing
- Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology
- Hospitality, Food Service and Tourism
- Industrial and Commercial Products
- Oil & Gas, Mining and Energy
- Personal Services
- Professional and Business Services
- Retail
- Telecommunications and ICT
- Trading and Wholesaling
- Transportation and Logistics
ARE YOU ELIGIBLE?
To be eligible, you need to fulfill, the following criteria*:
*varies by countries, please contact us for more information
for Malaysia’s Fast Moving Companies (Malaysia-based Companies)
- A home-grown and locally incorporated with at least 49% local equity
- Annual turnover of between RM 1 million and RM 50 million, or full time employees between 20 to 200 for manufacturing, manufacturing related and agro-based industries, and annual turnover of between RM 500,000 and RM 25 million, or full time employees between 10 to 150 for services, primary agriculture and ICT industries.
- Must not be listed on any stock exchange or share market.
- Can either be a holding company or a subsidiary. If the holding company participates all subsidiaries will not be eligible.
- Have audited financial statements for the year ending of at least recent 2 years.
for Singapore’s Fast Moving Companies (Singapore-based Companies)
- A home-grown and locally incorporated with at least 49% local equity
- Annual turnover of between USD 500,000 and USD 30 million, or full time employees between 20 to 200 for manufacturing-related and agro-based industries, and annual turnover of between USD 100,000 and USD 10 million, or full time employees between 10 to 150 for services, primary agriculture and ICT industries.
- Must not be listed on any stock exchange or market share.
- Can either be a holding company or a subsidary. If the holding company participates, all subsidiaries will not be eligible.
THE LAUNCHING & FIRST YEAR!
SME 100 proved to be one of the most successful business events of the year 2009 in Malaysia. A total of 430 companies participated in the selection of becoming part of the 100 fast moving companies of Malaysia.
The inspiring award ceremony of April 2009 was attended by many prominent figures and clearly the 100 winners. Second Finance Minister, Dato ‘Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah officiated the release of the list in conjunction with the SME & Entrepreneurship Magazine’s second anniversary.
WHAT WINNERS HAD TO SAY
Sam Yap & Jeff Yap- S&J Gift and Collection; “The SME100 is a boost for us to expand more in the future”
Mr Tan Hong Huat – Executive Director CEO M- Plan Sdu Bhd “To be associated with this magazine and event is something to be proud of “
Mohamed NAJIB bin Abdul Razak – Minister of finance; “The foundation of the magazine is so strong and I hope this will also be the case in the coming years and I believe that SME Magazines will continue to be successful in the future”
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