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Forbes Asia’s Fabulous 50 Award Ceremony and Dinner On December 3, 2009, some 200 guests gathered in Hong Kong to celebrate and honor the success of Forbes Asia’s 2009 Fabulous 50 companies. Senior executives from thirty-two Fabulous 50 companies were present to receive the awards. Forbes Asia’s Fabulous 50 companies are the best of Asia Pacific’s biggest listed companies with revenues or market capitalization of at least US$3 billion. Forbes editors picked the group of 50 companies with the best aggregate scores for long-term profitability, sales and earnings growth as well as projected earnings and stock-price gains. This year’s list of Fabulous 50 companies was published in the October 5, 2009 issue of Forbes Asia.
AS PUBLISHED IN FORBES ASIA FEBRUARY 2010 ISSUE
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(Left to right) Christopher Forbes, Vice Chairman, Forbes; Frank Slevin, MD, Head of Global Banking, Asia-Pacific, HSBC; Simon Galpin, Director-General of Investment Promotion, InvestHK; Guo Wensan, Chairman, Anhui Conch Cement
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Simon Galpin; Akira Hirabayashi, President, H.I.S.; Frank Slevin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Frank Slevin; Guo Wei, Chairman & CEO, Digital China Holdings; Simon Galpin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Simon Galpin; R. Jayachandran, Chairman, Olam International; Frank Slevin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Simon Galpin; Kim Sang Hun, CEO, NHN Corporation; Frank Slevin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Simon Galpin; Prasert Bunsumpun, President & CEO, PTT Public Company Ltd.; Frank Slevin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Simon Galpin; Sarwono Sudarto, President Director, Bank Rakyat Indonesia; Frank Slevin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Simon Galpin; Martha Bejar, President - Global Sales & Operations, Wipro; Frank Slevin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Simon Galpin; Fred Liu, COO, HTC Corporation; Frank Slevin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Frank Slevin; Everett Chu, Executive Director & CFO, Want Want China Holdings; Simon Galpin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Simon Galpin; S. Mahalingam, Executive Director & CFO, Tata Consultancy Services; Frank Slevin
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Simon Galpin; Henry Lin, CFO, Wistron; Frank Slevin
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(Left to right) Simon Galpin, Director-General of Investment Promotion, InvestHK; Yvonne Choi, Permanent Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development (Commerce, Industry and Tourism), InvestHK; Timothy Fok, Chairman, Fok Ying Tung Group; William Adamopoulos, President & Publisher, Forbes Asia
(Left to right) Martin Brudermueller, Member of the Board, BASF; Najeeb Ghauri, Chairman & CEO, Netsol Technologies
(Left to right) Liang Xinjun, Vice Chairman & CEO, Fosun International Ltd.; William Adamopoulos, President & Publisher, Forbes Asia; Frank Slevin, MD, Head of Global Banking, Asia-Pacific, HSBC
(Left to right) Simon Galpin, Director-General of Investment Promotion, InvestHK; Lee Shau Kee, Chairman, Henderson Land; Christopher Forbes; Philip Wong, Chairman, Winco Paper Products Co. Ltd.; Colin Lam, Vice Chairman, Henderson Land
(Left to right) Christopher Forbes; Richard Li, Chairman, PCCW; William Adamopoulos, President & Publisher, Forbes Asia
(Left to right) Devang Desai, CFO, Adani Enterprises; Anand Goel, Joint MD, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd.; Rajesh Bhatia, Senior VP – Finance, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd.; Darsan Jhaveri, MD, Adani Enterprises
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(Left to right) Karson Choi, Director, Early Light International (Holdings) Ltd.; Francis Choi, Chairman, Early Light International (Holdings) Ltd.; Peter Wong, Chairman, M.K. Corporation
(Left to right) Jim Siano, President & CEO Asia Pacific, Mont Blanc; Kim Suk Joon, Chairman & CEO, SsangYong Engineering & Construction Co.
(Left to right) Liang Jie, Investor Relations Manager, China Vanke; Yin Ke, CEO & Vice Chairman, Citic Securities; Victoria Tang, Associate Director-General, InvestHK
(Left to right) Martha Bejar, President - Global Sales & Operations, Wipro; William A. Owens , Chairman, AEA Investors Asia; K.V. Rangaswami, Member of the Board & President – Construction, Larsen & Toubro
(Left to right) Frank Slevin, MD, Head of Global Banking, Asia-Pacific, HSBC; R Ravimohan, Executive Director, Reliance Industries
(Left to right) Jerry Chan, MD, Woolworths; Tony Lee, MD, Head of Client Management, Hong Kong, HSBC; Lale Kesebi, Executive Director, Li & Fung; Wei Ing-Chou, Chairman, Tingyi Holding
(Left to right) R. Jayachandran, Chairman, Olam International; Kim Sang Hun, CEO, NHN Corporation
(Left to right) Robert Gansmo, VP - CFO, Wynn Macau; Jim Thompson, Chairman, Crown Worldwide Holdings Ltd.
Forbes Asia would like to thank all the award recipients, guests and sponsors of the Forbes Asia Fabulous 50 Award Ceremony and Dinner. Host sponsor
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