Suntech received the 2009 FT ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Environment Award on February 25 at the annual Boldness in Business awards, held in London.
“We are honored and pleased to receive the Boldness in Business Environment Award,” Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech’s chairman and CEO, said in the acceptance speech. “When we began in 2001, we set ourselves the mission to transform the world energy market from its environmentally destructive state to one that facilitates sustainable development. Suntech wants to power a world where everyone has direct and dependable access to nature’s cleanest and most abundant energy resource.”
The Boldness in Business Awards recognize companies and entrepreneurs in six categories – drivers of change, corporate responsibility, entrepreneurship, newcomer, emerging markets, and environment.