Melco’s pandemic-related efforts for the community led by Lawrence Ho win two accolades at 2020 Industry Community Awards
December 02 2020 - 04:17AM
Melco Resorts & Entertainment has been named winner of 2020
Industry Community Awards (ICA)’s Community Award – Asia. The award
recognizes Melco’s proactive and innovative corporate social
responsibility initiatives, especially in its efforts to support
the local community through the Company’s Simple Acts of Kindness
program. In addition, Melco Chairman & CEO Mr. Lawrence Ho has
been awarded ICA’s Outstanding Individual Award for his leadership
role in supporting stakeholders, including colleagues and the
broader community, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr. Lawrence Ho,
Chairman & CEO of Melco Resorts &
Entertainment, said, “These are the most unprecedented
times of our generation, and I am thankful for our 7,000 colleague
participants for their efforts made for the community through
Simple Acts of Kindness – reaching out to more than 1,600 local
organizations through over 600 activities since the pandemic began.
We will continue to do our part as we work with communities and
governments to generate positive impact through collective action.
I wish also to thank the organizers on behalf of Melco for these
accolades.”
Since late-January 2020, Lawrence Ho has led
Melco in carrying out a number of supportive initiatives for the
community, including:
- Deploying nearly 7,000 Melco
colleague participants to volunteer in the community during work
hours for Simple Acts of Kindness, reaching out to over 1,600
organizations in up to 15 activities per day;
- Donating HKD 20 mil (USD 2.6 mil)
to support Wuhan and Hubei for the purchase of medical supplies
including face masks and hand sanitizers, and to support the
community;
- Providing jobs to 150 unemployed
local persons;
- Establishing the Melco &
Colleagues Giving Stores in collaboration with Macao Federation of
Trade Unions and Fu Hong Society of Macau to provide goods and
necessities to the community’s persons in need;
- Promoting personal and public
hygiene and wellness to the community through online video series
in collaboration with local newspaper Macau Daily News; and
- Foregoing personal salary for the
remainder of 2020 to help ease finances of the company and
colleagues.
About Melco’s Simple Acts of Kindness
In May, Lawrence Ho deployed the Company’s
workforce en masse to support the local community during work
hours, encouraging all colleagues to care for the community through
‘Simple Acts of Kindness’. Within 3 months, Melco mobilized almost
7,000 Melco volunteer participants for ‘Simple Acts of Kindness’,
contacting over 1,600 organizations to support local NGO community
partners including Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and local
groups in need, including the elderly, single families, long-term
patients and children.
About Industry Community Awards (ICA)
Hosted by organizers of International Gaming
Awards, ICA recognizes outstanding efforts from the gaming and
entertainment industry in helping those within the industry and
externally within the wider community – supporting colleagues,
community members and health workers in fighting a pandemic that
has severely impacted communities and livelihoods.
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About Melco Resorts & Entertainment
Limited
The Company, with its American depositary shares
listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (NASDAQ: MLCO), is a
developer, owner and operator of integrated resort facilities in
Asia and Europe. The Company currently operates Altira Macau
(www.altiramacau.com), an integrated resort hotel located at Taipa,
Macau and City of Dreams (www.cityofdreamsmacau.com), an integrated
urban resort located in Cotai, Macau. Its business also includes
the Mocha Clubs (www.mochaclubs.com), which comprise the largest
non-casino based operations of electronic gaming machines in Macau.
The Company also majority owns and operates Studio City
(www.studiocity-macau.com), a cinematically-themed integrated
resort in Cotai, Macau. In the Philippines, a Philippine subsidiary
of the Company currently operates and manages City of Dreams Manila
(www.cityofdreamsmanila.com), an integrated resort in the
Entertainment City complex in Manila. In Europe, the Company is
currently developing City of Dreams Mediterranean
(www.cityofdreamsmed.com.cy) in the Republic of Cyprus, which is
expected to be the largest and premier integrated destination
resort in Europe. The Company is currently operating a temporary
casino, the first authorized casino in the Republic of Cyprus, and
is licensed to operate four satellite casinos (“Cyprus Casinos”).
Upon the opening of City of Dreams Mediterranean, the Company will
continue to operate the satellite casinos while operation of the
temporary casino will cease. For more information about the
Company, please visit www.melco-resorts.com.
The Company is strongly supported by its single
largest shareholder, Melco International Development Limited, a
company listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
Limited and is substantially owned and led by Mr. Lawrence Ho, who
is the Chairman, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of
the Company.
For media enquiries, please
contact:Chimmy LeungExecutive Director, Corporate
Communications Tel: +852 3151 3765Email:
chimmyleung@melco-resorts.com
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