Award for Royal Friesland Foods company in Indonesia


Dated: 31 March 2008

During a special ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, PT Frisian Flag Indonesia was honored recently as the best foreign investment company in the category for large scale industries.

Frisian Flag Indonesia is one of the largest foreign affiliates of Royal Friesland Foods and is the market leader in dairy in the country.

It is the first time that the prize was awarded and in total 5160 companies were audited by a team of experts, screening the performance of the participants in the fields of corporate governance, consistency of product quality, production facilities, corporate social responsibility programs and environmental care.

 
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