The ceremony to present the Vietnam National Quality Awards 2017 in Hanoi on April 22, 2018 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Seventy-five businesses will behonoured with the Vietnam National Quality Awards 2018, of which 22 will bepresented with the golden prize.
The list of winners was recently approved byPrime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Among the golden award winners, nine are big productionbusinesses, including DOMESCO Medical Import-Export JSC, Viglacera Corporation,An Phat Plastic and Green Environment JSC, and Tan Hiep Phat Service andTrading Co. Ltd.
Eight others are small- and medium-sized productionfirms, and five are small- and medium-sized service companies.
Meanwhile, the remaining 53 award winnersinclude 20 big production companies, 21 small- and medium-sized production companies,one big service company, and 11 small- and medium-sized service ones.
The Vietnam National Quality Awards are thePrime Minister’s annual recognition of organisations and enterprises withremarkable quality achievements in production, business activities andservices, thus helping to promote the standing of Vietnamese products andservices in the domestic and foreign markets.
The awards, first presented in 1996, wereinitiated by the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality under theMinistry of Science and Technology.-VNA
A ceremony was held in Hanoi on April 22 to honour 77 enterprises which won the 2017 National Quality Awards and International Asia Pacific Quality Award (IAPQA).
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The ceremony to present the Vietnam National Quality Awards 2017 in Hanoi on April 22, 2018 (Photo: VNA) 
