Press Statement
Donetsk
The First National CSR Business Case Contest awarded its winners on 11 December 2009 in Kiev. The event
was organized by the Centre for CSR Development. The winner was determined by
the jury comprising representatives of 8 countries.
Four SCM Group companies won the contest in different categories: CSR
practices of the Group were recognized as the best in three out of the six
nominations.
In particular, System Capital Management
managing company won the nomination for CSR Communications, Social Reporting. SCM is the first Ukrainian holding
company that produced a sustainability report according to the international
standards.
SCM Group power-generating holding DTEK won
Development of Local Community nomination for implementing a social
partnership programme in the regions of its operations.
Azovstal Steel Plant (part of Metinvest) won the nomination for Labour relations for the
School-University-plant programme aimed at training specialists for the plant.
Ingulets GOK (also part of Metinvest
Group) took the second place in the
contest for creation of landscape reserve in place of abandoned mines.
The
ceremony also presented a collection of social responsibility practices
conducted by Ukrainian businesses, which comprised 43 case studies. Along with
four SCM practices mentioned above, the collection also included cases of two other Group
companies. The first project for doing a
major reconstruction in Damanskiy
residential area in Krivoy Rog
was implemented by SevGOK. The second one implemented
by Krasnodonugol
recovers coalmine methane with the use of Kyoto Protocol mechanisms (both
enterprises belong to Metinvest).
Alexandra Zayrnaya, SCM CSR
manager, commented on the contest results: "Frankly
speaking, our victory in the nomination for CSR Communications was not a
surprise as we are indeed pioneers in CSR in the Ukrainian market. What's more
important is that the practices of five SCM Group companies were included in
the case study collection and recognized by international experts. In fact,
since 2006 we've been working to make social responsibility one of business
principles at all levels of SCM Group corporate structure".
Profile:
SCM is a professional investor that owns and controls
assets in mining and metals, energy-generation, telecommunications, banking,
insurance, media as well as in retail and real estate.
SCM Group includes Metinvest Holding,
DTEK, VegaTelecom Group, Segodnya
Multimedia, TRK Ukraina, ESTA Holding, Ukrainskiy Retail and others.
SCM is 100% owned by Ukrainian
businessman, Rinat Akhmetov.
Press office of SCM
Tel.: +38 062 381 50 37
Fax: +38 062 381 50 55
E-mail: press@scm.com.ua
