UST Global wins double honors at the Global Brand Excellence Awards 2014
Thiruvananthapuram, India, August 12, 2014: UST Global, an information technology solutions and services company for Global 1000 enterprises, announced today that it has been conferred with the Global Brand Excellence Awards, in two categories, at the World Brand Congress —the single largest rendezvous of best brains behind some of the world’s most successful and sought after brands—held in Singapore recently.
The company has won ‘The Brand Leadership Award in Child & Women Care’ and ‘The Sustainable Marketing Excellence Award’ in recognition of its efforts in educating and empowering women, creating human capital, and in turn building a distinguished brand identity and sustained marketing program with its Step IT Up America initiative.
Step IT Up America is a national proprietary workforce training program started in 2013 to train and employ inner-city minority women and equip them with the technological skills to launch successful careers in IT (information technology). UST Global is investing in recruiting, training, and employing thousands of women who demonstrate the commitment to attend a community college and is expecting to help create 5000 jobs by 2020.
Corporate Marketing Officer at UST Global Nikki Arora, attended the World Brand Congress and accepted the awards on behalf of the company.
“It is encouraging to receive this recognition for Step IT Up America. These awards reaffirm UST Global’s undeterred focus on transforming lives through technology and education. Step IT Up America is a strategic platform for us to not only transform communities with better economic opportunities, but also create significant and sustained effort to help bring more talent that will contribute towards the development of a knowledge economy,” said Nikki Arora.