19th November 2009,
Perdana Ballroom,
Putrajaya International Convention Center, Putrajaya.

International Business Review Awards 2009 follows from the success of the Technology Business Review Awards 2006, Technology Business Review ASEAN Awards 2007 and Technology Business Review ASEAN Awards 2008. Since then the awards have been recognized as one of the most prominent corporate excellence award in Malaysia for companies operating in the ASEAN region.The International Business Review Awards will be held on 30th October 2009 at the Perdana Ballroom of Putrajaya International Convention Center, Putrajaya.The award presentation dinner will be a grand black-tie event for 1500 guests consisting of senior members of the corporate, diplomatic and public sectors.

The Technology Business Review Awards 2006 was held on the 15th September 2006 at the Palace of the Golden Horses. The awards were won by 30 companies from among 48 nominations that came from 12 business sectors. Two Lifetime Achievement Awards were also given to very prominent corporate figures, Tan Sri Teh Hong Piow, Executive Chairman and Founder of Public Bank Berhad and Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing, President/Founder of the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology.

The inaugural awards ceremony was attended by 800 guests consisting of corporate and government leaders. The Guest of Honour was the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation.

 

Following the success of the inaugural awards, the Technology Business Review ASEAN Awards 2007 expanded the scope of nominees participating in the awards to include Malaysian and foreign companies operating in the ASEAN region, and the Technology Business Review Merit Awards given in recognition for government agencies for improving their service quality and being a greater partner to the corporate sector.

A total of 33 business from 14 business sectors won the Technology Business Review ASEAN Awards 2007, 7 government agencies received the Technology Business Review Merit Awards and 3 prominent individuals from the corporate sector received the Lifetime Achievement Awards – Tan Sri Rainer Althoff, the CEO/ President of SIEMENS Malaysia, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah, the Chairman and Founder of the Sunway group and Tan Sri Vincent Tan, the Chairman and Founder of the Berjaya Group.

 

Technology Business Review ASEAN 2008 was an even bigger success, following the success of the previous two award ceremonies. We introduced 1 more category – the CEO Awards, bringing it to a total of 4 categories – the Corporate Award, the CEO Award, the Merit Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The event drew more than 90 nominations in total for all 4 categories. And in the end, 50 finalists were chosen from these nominees. The awards ceremony was the grandest to date, with more than 1300 guests it at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre in the Federal Administrative Capital City of Putrajaya on the 31st October 2008.