Best Managed Companies Awards 2023

Established in 2006, BIG Pharmacy offers healthcare services and products at your fingertips with affordable prices. With over 250 retail outlets across Malaysia, customers are able to enjoy professional health advice from licensed pharmacists in store, as well as e-consultation from doctors via the BIG Pharmacy mobile app.

With its base in Penang, Golden Fresh has grown from being one of the largest seafood processors in Malaysia to a global supplier of frozen raw and value-added seafood. Their products, marketed under the international brand name, Pacific West, are mainly exported and enjoyed by 27 countries and counting. They have also recently expanded into the plant-based space, under the brand name, ‘Pacific Greens’.

Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK) started as a plantation company in 1906 and today, the Group has almost 300,000 hectares of planted area of mainly oil palm in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Liberia. KLK diversified into resource-based manufacturing via KLK OLEO, and property with KLK Land. They also have a global oleochemicals presence in China, Indonesia, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and USA.

LBS Bina Group Berhad is a Malaysian public-listed, investment holding company whose core business is in property development, with involvement in construction, hospitality, retail, and tourism sector.

As a township and community builder, LBS envisions to house the nation by providing affordable housing to all. In our continuous pursuit of progress and excellence, we aligned our operations and systems with international ESG values - implementing organisational policies and procedures that emphasise ethical, responsible, and sustainable behaviour. Initiatives such as investing in industrialised building system (IBS) system to minimise energy consumption and reduce emissions, demonstrates our commitment in supporting a sustainable growth model.

Mah Sing Group Berhad is a public listed company operating in plastic and healthcare manufacturing; and is best known for its notable presence in the property development sector. The Group gained recognition for its expertise in various segments, such as high-rise residences, townships, offices, retail spaces, SoHo, and industrial projects. With a strong emphasis on delivering value to its stakeholders, Mah Sing continues to play a significant role in shaping Malaysia’s real estate and business landscape.

Established more than 50 years ago, Mamee-Double Decker is ASEAN's most unique & exciting snack and beverage company with the mission to spread happiness and excitement through food experiences. They manufacture, market, and distribute snacks, noodles, cakes, and beverages. Exporting to more than 100 countries, their most notable brands include Mamee Monster, Mister Potato, and Mamee Chef.

QL Resources is a food producer with four integrated and complementary business pillars spanning entire value chains. Driven by its mission to create nourishing products from agro resources, QL delivers quality and nutritious food that meet the evolving needs of the modern population. Operating scalable businesses in a sustainable manner to lead to benefit for all parties, QL is propelling towards being the preferred agro enterprise.

Established in 2000, ViTrox is the world’s-leading automated machine vision solution provider, serving the global semiconductor and electronics assembly industries. ViTrox aims to be the world’s most trusted technology company, contributing to the advancement of society and the well-being of humankind with its most innovative, advanced, and cost-effective machine vision, robotic, and AI solutions. The ultimate goal is to achieve zero defect in every manufacturing process. To provide a clear roadmap for ViTrox’s ESG journey, in 2022, ViTrox established sustainability targets for 2023 and 30 goals for 2030. These commitments are in line with ViTrox’s corporate strategy and enable transparent measurement and quantification of sustainability progress.

Established in 1974, Sunway Group is one of Southeast Asia’s leading conglomerates with 13 business divisions and a 16,000-strong team that operates across more than 50 locations worldwide. Sunway is committed to advancing the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and continues to align them with the ESG agenda as part of its corporate strategy, social responsibility and commitment towards nation-building. In line with Sunway’s aspiration to build a sustainable future, it aims to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 with an interim target to halve emissions by 2030. Sunway is the first corporation in Malaysia, and among the first in Asia, to introduce an internal carbon pricing framework into its business operations.

Yinson Holdings Berhad (“Yinson” or the “Group”) is a global energy infrastructure and technology company, listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. Yinson runs five business units: Yinson Production, Yinson Renewables, Yinson GreenTech, Farosson, and Regulus Offshore. The Group is recognised for its leadership position in sustainability and ESG. It set its Climate Goals to be carbon neutral by 2030 and net-zero by 2050, and is actively implementing solutions, through its business units, towards a low carbon future.