Get to know Singapore’s leading firms at the inaugural Business Rankings Awards 2014

Nearly 100 executives flocked to the event.

Singapore Business Review set out to recognize the country’s trailblazing professionals at the inaugural Business Rankings Awards 2014 held yesterday at Shangri-La Singapore.

The awarding ceremony, attended by nearly 100 executives, recognized companies which made it to SBR's objective rankings of leading firms by size across all major industries in the city.

SBR's publisher Tim Charlton presented the awards to participating firms, which included Rankine & Hill, the 13th largest engineering firm; Ong & Ong, the 6th largest architecture firm; JCU Singapore, the 3rd largest MBA provider; CPG Consultants, the 3rd and 4th largest architecture and engineering firm; Design Link Architects, the 13th largest architecture firm; and ERA, the largest real estate agency.

SBR has been ranking some of Singapore’s biggest industries in the past two years. The rankings began with country’s largest accounting firms based on total employment.

As for many cases, the number of employees varies from time to time as companies in perfect competition try to maximize profits.

A firm which has grown in size implies that it has matured and has survived amidst tight competition, not only in attracting clients but also in retaining talents.

Ranking by size is simply based on the number of professionals retained by each firm and is an objective standard for gauging a firm’s competence.

Succeeding industries that SBR covered are the legal, commercial banking, property brokerage, architecture, and engineering.

Special metrics were used to other industries such as the hotel, serviced apartments, MBA, and insurance. The hotels and serviced apartments were ranked based on their total number of rooms or units while the size of MBA schools and programmes were determined by the number of students. Lastly, the insurance firms were ranked based on their total assets.

The ceremony also recognized the country’s most influential young professionals who made it to SBR's much-talked about 40 and under lists.

Amongst those awarded are the following:

Restaurateurs

• Dylan Ong and Joshua Khoo of Saveur
• Indra Kantono of Jigger & Pony and Sugarhall
• Grace Chia and Bernard Toh of The Missing Pan
• Jez Lim of BLVD

Lawyers

• Jun Ho of Wikborg Rein Singapore
• Ben Rose and Robert Driver of Norton Rose Fulbright
• Tan Choon Leng of RHTLaw Taylor Wessing
• Jeremy Chase and Mark Robinson of Herbert Smith Freehills
• Daniel Chia of Stamford Law

Professors

• Dr. Easwaramoorthy Rangaswamy of Amity Global Business School
• Yu Kang Yang, Trevor (Ph.D) of Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Business School
• Meijun Qian of National University of Singapore
• Yaozhong Wu of NUS Business School

Hotel Managers

• Gary Puan of J8 Hotel
• Derik Poh of The Plot Hostels
• Jolene Chong of Hotel Re! @ Pearl's Hill
• Olivier Lenoir of Grand Hyatt Singapore
• Trinh Tran Chau of Amoy Hotel
• Christian Wolny of Rendezvous Hotel Singapore by Far East Hospitality

Ad Execs and Marketers

• Gary Teo and Fairil Yeo of VML Qais
• Madina Kalyayeva, Sharon Siew Hui Fen and Miguel Martinez of Grey Group
• Charina Widjaja of DFW Creative Pte Ltd