The 200 best businesses across the country were presented with the Viet Nam Gold Star Awards 2018 at a ceremony held in Ha Noi on Sunday in the presence of Secretary of Party Central Committee (PCC) and Head of the PCC’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai along with Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.

Head of the PCC’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai and Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue presenting the Viet Nam Gold Star Awards 2018 to the honoured businesses

The honourees generated a total of more than 912 trillion VND (39 billionUS$) in revenue and contributed over 72 trillion VND (3 billion US$) to the state budget this year.

They also posted an after-tax profit of about 72 trillion VND, and created employment for 417,000 job seekers nationwide.

The top 10 in the list are VinGroup, Thanh Thanh Cong Investment JSC, Hoa Binh Construction Group JSC, FPT JSC, Hoa Phat Group JSC, Thien Long Group JSC, Century Land JSC, Traphaco JSC, Minh Phu Seafood JSC, and An Cuong Wood Working JSC.

Amongst the honourees were 3 businesses from Da Nang, namely the Hoa Tho Textiles and Garments Corporation, the First Real company, and the Logistics Portserco company.

The annual Award honours the enterprises that have achieved good business performance and sustainable development, and undertaken good social responsibility.

The Viet Nam Gold Star Award marked its 15^th anniversary this year. It has honoured a total of 2,127 brands and products to date, hereby helping to promote the stature of Vietnamese brands and businesses in the international economic integration period.

The annual event is organised by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee, the Viet Nam Youth Federation Central Committee, and the Viet Nam Young Entrepreneurs Association.

“The selecting process was renovated and carried out in a more effective and transparent manner to ensure the award’s prestige. We even sent experts of different fields, especially in auditing, to assess each business,” said Dang Hong Anh, the Chairman of Vietnamese Association of Young Entrepreneurs.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue congratulated awarded businesses, acknowledging their significant devotion to national achievements in 2018.

In particular, he asked national government agencies to help domestic businesspeople, especially young entrepreneurs, raise their political awareness, self-reliance, patriotism, national pride, have the sense of law observance, social responsibility, high management leadership skills, and comply with the Vietnamese corporate culture and business ethics.