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DHL-SCMP Hong Kong Business Awardsi

The DHL-SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards, held annually since 1989, celebrates exceptional contributions by corporate executives and business owners in the city.

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  • Douglas Woo, the chairman and managing director of Wheelock and Company Limited, was the Business Person of the Year
  • Mary Huen, chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank, won the Executive award

The awards, held without interruption since 1990, honour outstanding achievements in seven categories this year. A lifetime achievement award is available to honour the worthy recipient at the discretion of the judges.

The annual awards held the first in-person black tie dinner since 2018, marking the city’s bounce back from two tumultuous years and its worst recession on record.

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Amid slumping corporate earnings and record unemployment in a recession, the awards’ panel of judges shifted the weight of their adjudication to emphasise corporate social responsibility.

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Charles Li’s adaptability might help bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing regain the coveted crown of the world’s fundraising capital for the seventh time in 11 years.

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The honorary chairman of Li & Fung has won the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s DHL-SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards for his devotion to tackling global challenges

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The awards honour exceptional leadership at a particularly tumultuous moment for Hong Kong, as the worst political crisis in the city’s history and a year-long US-China trade war combined to drive the local economy into its first technical recession in a decade.

Hong Kong's most enterprising smaller companies are the focus of a new business awards programme unveiled yesterday by the South China Morning Post.