Hong Kong, (December 12, 2025) – The South China Morning Post (SCMP) announces the newly redesigned SCMP Business Awards 2025, which highlight business excellence in cross-border innovation, transformative leadership and sustainable growth. The awards programme honours outstanding corporate executives, SME owners, start-up founders and companies in Hong Kong and beyond that are shaping the future of business.
Winners of the SCMP Business Awards 2025:
- Start-up of the Year: BioZein Technology Corp Ltd
- SME of the Year: Telefield Medical Imaging Limited
- Globalisation Award: APT Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Corporate Executive of the Year: Lawrence Lam, CEO, Prudential Hong Kong
- Business Owner of the Year: He Xiaopeng, Co-founder, Chairman of the Board, Executive Director and CEO, XPENG
- Company of the Year: McDonald’s Hong Kong
“We believe that the business community can play a leadership role in setting examples of good corporate behavior, which runs across good corporate governance, leadership and philanthropy. To keep pace with the evolving business landscape, we have redesigned this business awards programme to reflect the dynamic growth. This is the first year that we have expanded the SCMP Business Awards to the Greater Bay Area, and subsequently to Asia.” – Eugene Tang, Managing Editor, Projects, South China Morning Post.
The event featured a captivating conversation with Dr Allan Zeman, Chairman of the Lan Kwai Fong Group and the only three-time winner of the business awards. Moderated by SCMP’s CEO Catherine So, Dr Zeman shared valuable insights into his business leadership and lessons learnt, where he strongly encouraged business owners to be prepared and maintain an open mind when navigating the innovations and changes in today’s rapidly evolving and dynamic landscape.
This year’s awards received 43 nominations across six categories. All nomination papers, including financial statements and supporting documents, were first normalised by knowledge partner Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), led by CIMA Council member William Chen; and compiled into mutually comparable data sets, graded and submitted to the panel of 10 judges for their votes to the lists of finalists and winners.
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The SCMP Business Awards 2025 is supported by:
- Venue sponsor: The Peninsula Hong Kong
- Knowledge partner: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
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The South China Morning Post is a leading global news organisation that has reported on China and Asia for over 120 years. Founded in 1903, the SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing staff of correspondents in Asia and across the globe. The SCMP has received hundreds of awards for its journalistic excellence from prestigious organisations such as the World Association of News Publishers and the Online News Association. The SCMP also publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s BAZAAR. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism.
