Date: 26/4/2011
Urban Group and its 8 associated companies recently received the 2010/11 Caring Company recognition from The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS), among which 7 companies received the "5-Year Plus Caring Company" Certificates in recognition of their participation in the Caring Company Scheme for over 5 years in promoting corporate social responsibility.
Urban Group has been supporting the Caring Company campaign since 2002 and has received the Caring Company recognition for 9 consecutive years. Urban is also a Patron's Club member of the Scheme since 2006 to help build a caring community with other commercial organizations in Hong Kong.
Dr Edmond Cheng, Managing Director of Urban Group reveals, "Urban Group has been actively participating in the Caring Company scheme since its inception in 2002. Encouragingly, 7 of our associated companies have received the '5-Year Plus Caring Company' Certificate demonstrating our continuous efforts in caring for the well-beings of the community, our employees and the environment. It also demonstrates our endeavours and commitment to shoulder our corporate social responsibility."
The Caring Company certificates received by Urban Group include:
Urban Property Management Limited
International Property Management Limited
Paramatta Estate Management Limited
Broadway-Nassau Investments Limited
Urban Technical Services Limited
Turning Technical Services Limited
i-Urban Limited
Caring Company Certificate
Urban Group
Urban Property Management Ltd - Parc Palais
Dr Edmond Cheng says, "We are committed to build a harmonious community through actively involving in various social activities such as the Trailwalker, Green Power Hike, the Social Welfare Department Volunteering Campaign and the Community Chest events. We have set up our corporate volunteer team, the Urban Group Community Care Team to enhance our social participation through organizing and participating in a number of activities such as visiting the elderly and assisting the socially deprived people. We also concern about the environment by supporting various energy saving and waste reduction campaigns of different environmental groups to promote a low carbon lifestyle to our customers and other stakeholders. Moreover, we treat our 3,000 employees as our working partners and cater for their well beings through various work enhancement programmes and activities to bring a healthy work-life balance to their working and daily life."
Urban Group is a leading property asset and facility services group in Hong Kong. Currently, the Group manages 220 projects territory-wide and is serving 1 million people in Hong Kong.Back to Press Releases 2011