FrieslandCampina Vietnam (FCV), which owns the Dutch Lady, Friso, Yomost, Fristi brands, has been named among the top 10 Sustainable Businesses this year for a second time in a row.

The award was offered by the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ministries of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and Natural Resources and Environment, and the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour.

To receive the award, participating enterprises must meet stringent standards on sustainable development under the Programme on Benchmarking and Announcing Sustainable Companies in 2022.

FCV’s efforts have been recognised by partners and consumers with a series of prestigious awards.

In addition to the Sustainable Business Award, it received the Asia-Pacific Business Excellence Award, the Top 10 Prestigious Food and Beverage Companies award, Green Book Award, Women's Empowerment Award, and Top 100 Best Places to Work in Vietnam award, among others.

Since its presence in Viet Nam nearly 30 years ago, millions of units of FrieslandCampina’s products have been consumed every day.

This is a testament to the love and trust of customers with the same standard of quality Dutch milk as around the world.

The company has developed a long-term strategic co-operation programme with the Ministry of Education and Training to improve awareness of nutrition, forming good habits in primary school students to ensure they engage in physical activities to improve their health.

The ‘For Vietnam to Leap Forward and Reach Higher’ programme is expected to benefit 1.5 million primary school students during the 2020-2025 period.

FCV has also developed the Dairy Development Programme (DDP) to provide technical training to Vietnamese farmers, and transfer technologies and share experiences with partner-farmers through its dairy development programme to improve the incomes and lives of people who are part of the company’s supply chain.

The programme has attracted more than 8,500 Vietnamese farming households with 12,000 training sessions per year.

“Nourishing a better planet”

FCV has been striving to create an efficient and sustainable production chain through environmental protection in the form of reducing the use of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions and efficiently using water resources.

In 2022, FCV launched a sustainable development programme of “Nourishing a better planet”, which seeks to reduce environmental impact, improve the lives of farmers and provide consumers with nutritious products.

To realise the targets, FCV has devised four key pillars for its action programme in Viet Nam, including “Better nutrition”, “Better packaging”, “Better planet”, and “Better livelihood for the Vietnamese”.

“FCV is proud to be one of the few companies in Viet Nam to be pursuing a sustainable development strategy for nearly 30 years since the first days of entering this market," said Richard Kiger, general director of FrieslandCampina Vietnam. “We will continue to promote activities around the four main goals that have been set out, constantly create good values to fulfil our mission and persevere with sustainable development to benefit our consumers, society and planet.” — VNS