Melco congratulates the 200 awardees of Forbes Asia Best Under A Billion List
November 20 2018 - 3:44AM
In support of entrepreneurship, Melco Resorts & Entertainment
(Nasdaq: MLCO) is pleased to announce that it sponsored the Forbes
Asia Best Under A Billion Forum and Awards Dinner in Tokyo last
night. The annual list celebrates high-performing and
entrepreneurial publicly-listed companies in the Asia Pacific
region; this is the first time the awards event has been held in
Japan.
The Forbes Asia Best Under A Billion List
features 200 exceptional small and medium-sized companies from
around the region that have an annual revenue between $5 million
and $1 billion, positive net income and are publicly traded for at
least a year. From a pool of 24,000 companies, the awardees
were selected on the basis of sales growth and earnings growth in
the past 12 months and over three years, and for the strongest
five-year return on equity.
The program of the awards dinner featured
welcome remarks by Mr. Lawrence Ho, Chairman and CEO, Melco Resorts
& Entertainment and Melco International Development after
introductions by Makoto Takano, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Forbes
Japan and Christopher Forbes, Vice Chairman of Forbes Media.
The evening’s program also featured a speech by Mr. Hiroshige
Seko, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. In
addition, Mr. Lawrence Ho also participated in a panel session on
the topic of “Lessons on Leadership” with Mr. Yoshito Hori,
President of GLOBIS University and Managing Partner of GLOBIS
Capital Partners about how to start and lead an organization in
today’s fast-changing world.
Mr. Lawrence Ho, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Melco Resorts & Entertainment and
Melco International Development commented during the
awards dinner, “We are delighted to celebrate entrepreneurship and
leadership with all the award winners tonight. It’s such a
privilege to be with leaders of young, pioneering and innovative
companies that are breaking new grounds in their respective
industries here in this region. Fast-growing, entrepreneurial
companies like those honored tonight represent the future of Asia
and play a critical role in boosting local economic growth.”
About Melco Resorts & Entertainment
LimitedThe Company, with its American depositary shares
listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (NASDAQ: MLCO), is a
developer, owner and operator of casino gaming and entertainment
casino resort facilities in Asia. The Company currently operates
Altira Macau (www.altiramacau.com), a casino hotel located at
Taipa, Macau and City of Dreams (www.cityofdreamsmacau.com), an
integrated urban casino 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 entertainment, retail and gaming
resort in Cotai, Macau. In the Philippines, a Philippine subsidiary
of the Company currently operates and manages City of Dreams Manila
(www.cityofdreams.com.ph), a casino, hotel, retail and
entertainment integrated resort in the Entertainment City complex
in Manila. 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
CommunicationsTel: +852 3151 3765Email:
chimmyleung@melco-resorts.com
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