VIGLACERA Ha Long Wins APQO Award in Nepal

 Asia Pacific Quality Organisation (APQO) held its Annual Meeting and presented the International Asia Pacific Quality Awards to World Class Winners in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, from September 17 to 20, 2010. VIGLACERA Ha Long Joint Stock Company honourably won this first-rate award.

 

VIGLACERA Ha Long was rated equal to leading economic organisations in Asia Pacific region in terms of product quality and corporate culture as it excellently satisfied all seven evaluation criteria of APQO. The seven evaluation criteria include Leadership: 120 points; Strategic Planning: 85 points; Customer and Market Focus: 85 points; Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management: 90 points; Human Resource Focus: 85 points; Process Management: 85 points; and Business Results: 450 points. APQO takes these criteria as the measure of effectiveness, contributions and direct effects on society; and as a total affirmative on “operating quality” of the enterprise.

The seven criteria are used equally to evaluate companies in member countries, including developed nations like the United States, Japan and South Korea.

 

After VIGLACERA Ha Long won the “Vietnam Quality Golden Award 2008”, the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality under the Ministry Science and Technology collaborated with quality authorities of Quang Ninh province and the company to submit the candidate application to the Executive Committee for International Asia Pacific Quality Award 2010. VIGLACERA Ha Long gained a relatively high sum of points to be honoured at the APQO’s Day of Quality and Knowledge in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

At the invitation of H.E Shan Ruprai JM, President of the Asia Pacific Quality Organisation, and H.E Charles A. Aubrey II, President of APQO Award, Mr Nguyen Quang Mau, Chairman and General Director of VIGLACERA Ha Long and staffs in charge arrived Nepal to attend the 16^th Annual APQO International Conference and receive the APQO Award. Mr Pho Duc Son, Head of the Vietnam Standards and Quality Institute under the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, presented the Vietnamese national quality authorities to attend the meeting and awarding event.

 

At 8 p.m. local time (9:15 p.m. Hanoi time), at the Great Hall of Kathmandu University in Dhulikhel, Presidents Shan Ruprai JM and Charles A. Aubrey II presented the APQO Quality Award to Mr Nguyen Quang Mau.

Speaking at the awarding ceremony, Mr Nguyen Quang Mau said: "Thanks to integration and opening policies and friendly guiding principles of Vietnamese Government, especially after the entry to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), our companies have very good conditions to create more and work more to make high-quality products for domestic consumption and for export. VIGLACERA Ha Long and hundreds of thousands of other companies in the country have always been insightful and set up very important cooperation with many international institutions and businesses in many developed economies in the world; thus, we have received advanced technologies of our time for production activities. Many Vietnamese companies have honourably won the APQO Quality Awards in recent years and today we - VIGLACERA Ha Long - have the honour of receiving this grand award - a testimony to what I have said.”

 

On the behalf of VIGLACERA Ha Long, Mr Nguyen Quang Mau presented embroidered pictures of Ha Long Bay - the World Natural Heritage Site - to President Shan Ruprai JM and General Secretary of APQO.