The "Excellent Corporate Award" was held for the first time by the New Taipei City Government. It aims to encourage corporates to promote social responsibility in areas of environmental protection, public safety as well as social welfare. It is to honour corporates which have been deeply involved in their communities and have contributed greatly to the economic and industrial development. Planet was recognised for its long-lasting effort in children’s education – its core CSR initiative.

Planet began with the children’s education initiative in the Xindian District of New Taipei City, where it is headquartered. It provides counseling and tutoring services to vulnerable children with an institutionalised approach in which Planet utilised its business know-how and integrated resource from the schools, education professionals along with corporate volunteers. By systematically duplicating its management experience and execution model, it was successful in promoting these programmes which are deeply rooted in elementary schools in New Taipei City.

In addition to their contribution to children’s education, Planet strongly values corporate governance, environmental protection, green innovation, customer/employee satisfaction, supply chain management and shareholder rights, all of which are important elements of their CRS initiatives. Planet also encourages its employees to put CSR into daily practice from subsidising organic tea farms and assisting in trash sorting for better recycling and environmental cleanups.

CSR has been incorporated into Planet’s corporate strategy as the company emphasises not only the development of its own image, but also its employees and society as a whole. Planet is honoured to share its CSR experience and hopes that its efforts in enhancing community will be inspiring and will encourage more participation from more corporates to create more significant positive impact.

Planet has also previously been recognised by the Common Wealth Magazine and the Global Views Monthly Magazine.