Handing over the award to the SLT Chairperson |
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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has won the Silver Award at the prestigious 2008 International ARC Awards competition for its latest on-line Annual Report.
SLT’s Annual Report in both print and on-line formats is produced by Smart Media, whose Chairman, Vijith Kannangara was on hand to receive the award on September 18 at a Gala Black Tie Banquet and Awards Ceremony held at the Grand Salon Ballroom of the Jumeirah Essex House in New York. Later in Sri Lanka, SLT Chairperson, Leisha De Silva Chandrasena accepted the award from the Chairman of Smart Media at a felicitation ceremony held in Colombo last week, according to a Smart Media press release.
ARC Awards are regarded as the ‘Oscars’ of the annual reporting world and is the largest, most respected and most prestigious of more than 100 international annual report award competitions held annually around the world.
Out of the 150 entrants in the on-line Annual Report category, 38 qualified for awards. Sri Lanka Telecom and Telecom Austria Group were the only two companies in the telecom sub-category to have won awards for their online Annual Reports.
Ms. Leisha de Silva Chandrasena, Chairperson of SLT, attributed the award to the excellent partnership that Smart Media and Sri Lanka Telecom have built over a long period of 10 years. “The Smart Media – SLT partnership has produced the 10 Annual Reports that SLT has published since privatization. It also encompassed the period when SLT became a public quoted company in 2002. These Annual Reports have played a big part in promoting SLT as a solid investment proposition,” she added.
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