The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI), Malaysia introduced the Industry Excellence Award in 1990 with following objectives:

• encourage the production of quality malaysian-manufactured products and services;
• create industry awareness of quality and excellence;
• recognized organizational excellence;
• encourage sharing of information on successful performance strategies and benefits of winners; and
• encourage competitiveness of Malaysian-made product and services.

Within the Industry Excellence Award, there are four main awards that are administered by different agencies. These are :

• Product Excellence Award, administered by the Standards and Industrial research Institute Of Malaysia (SIRIM);
• Export Excellence Award (Merchandise), administered by Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE);
• Export Excellence Award (Services), also administered by (MATRADE); and
• Quality Management Excellence Award, administered by the National Productivity Corporation (Malaysia’s National Productivity Organization).

MMCOG participated in the Export Excellence Award (Services) for the category of local company in the professional/consultancy business. After submission of the relevant documents and questionnaire to MATRADE in Aug 2006, MMCOG was short listed as a finalist and was subsequently audited by MATRADE in Dec 2006. The assessment criteria included:

(1) Type of services exported
(2) Services development for export
(3) Export financial performance
(4) Export markets
(5) Method of exporting
(6) Recognition Awards received
(7) Export promotion activities
(8) Contribution to Industry/Community

MMCOG was informed by MITI in Feb 2007 that it has won the Export Excellence Award (Services) 2006 for the category it has participated in. The Award Ceremony was held at the Grand Ballroom, KL Convention Centre on Monday 19 Mar 2007.

Dato’ Wira Syed Abdul Jabar, Chariman of MMC Corporation Berhad and En Shaharel Shafiei, CEO of MMCOG, received the trophy and certificate on behalf of the company. Other Senior Management personnel of MMCOG also attended the Award Ceremony.