edotco Group won two awards at the Sustainable Business Awards Malaysia 2020/21, coming out as a Winner in the Workforce category and Significant Achievement in the Energy Management category, in recognition of the group’s outstanding and continuous commitment in the sustainability pillars.
edotco Group chief executive officer Adlan Tajudin said the recognition validates the group’s commitment to best environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices that are aligned to the United Nations sustainable development goals.
“These recognitions attest to our efforts and spur us on in our ambition to become a global Top 5 Next Generation Tower Company. Sustainability is a key pillar embedded in our business strategy and across our operations which focuses on achieving sustainable growth.
“To ensure accelerated sustainable success, our business strategy is backed by a holistic future-proof modern workforce model that supercharges people transformation in this new norm world,” he said.
As the first telecommunications company in Malaysia to become a signatory member of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the company embedded the 10 Principles on Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption into its strategies, policies, procedure and culture.
“We are committed to enhancing the telecommunications industry sustainably with next-generation engineering and continuing to be nation-building partners in all the countries we operate. We look forward to deepening our collaboration with all ecosystem partners to deliver real benefits in a sustainable manner to enhancing the lives of all people both regionally and globally,” Adlan added.
The 2020/21 Malaysia Awards was held virtually on September 23, 2021 with the presence of Dato’ Sri Mustapa Mohamed, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department for Economic Affairs.
Organized by Global Initiatives, the Sustainable Business Awards (SBA) winners are comprehensively assessed based on a scoring framework co-developed with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), followed by a National Advisory Panel (NAP) evaluation. The Awards recognizes leadership in corporate sustainability across 12 categories, including sustainability strategy, community, energy and water management, supply chain, and ethics.
Established in 2012, edotco Group is the first regional and integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company in Asia, providing end-to-end solutions in the tower services sector from tower leasing, co-locations, build-to-suit, energy, transmission and operations and maintenance (O&M).
edotco Group operates and manages a regional portfolio of over 41,000 towers across Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Philippines and Laos. The group strives to deliver outstanding performance in telecommunications infrastructure services and solutions. Its state-of-the-art real-time monitoring service, echo, has driven significant improvements in field operations while maximising operational efficiencies in terms of battery, energy and fuel consumption for telecommunications infrastructure.
