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Awards and accolades

Awards of MMC Norilsk Nickel

Investment case

The world's largest nickel producer among private companies in Q1 2019, according to RIA Rating;
Upgrade of Nornickel’s credit rating to Ваа3 (investment grade) by Moody’s, with the outlook raised from stable to positive;
Top rankings in the annual Extel Survey of investors in the following categories: Metals & Mining, CEO for Investor Relations, CFOs best for Investor Relations, Best IR professionals.

Environment

Winner of the Business Leaders: Environmental Expenses category by RAEX rating agency;
Snob magazine’s “Made in Russia 2019” award in the Environment category (support of environmental activities and operations upgrade).

Society

President's Award for the successful construction of Bystrinsky GOK in the Trans-Baikal Territory (21 employees awarded);
Reaffirmed leadership in the Responsibility and Transparency and Sustainable Development Vector indices from the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs;
First prize for the social investment programme in the Leaders of Corporate Philanthropy in the Sustainable Development Paradigm competition organised by the Russian Donors Forum, PwC and the Vedomosti newspaper;
Forbes Global 2000: The World's Best Employers ranking (first among Russian companies, 36th among the top 2000 employers globally; the only Russian company to make it to the Top 100 list);
No. 1 in the Forbes Russia Top 50 employers list;
No. 1 employer in the metals and mining industry (Business and Engineering/ Natural Sciences) according to Universum’s global ranking of Russia's most attractive employers.
Fourth place in the list of Russia’s Top 100 Employers by HeadHunter;
No. 1 in the Digital Media & Tools category of the Digital Communications AWARDS (for the JoinUniversiada online contest);
No. 2 in the Best Internal Communications Project category at InterComm 2019;
HR Brand of the Year award by HeadHunter (third place in the Capital category with the online game Nickel Code);
International WOW!HR accolade in the Be Cool category (for the Nornickel Contributes to Engineering Future project);
GRADUATE AWARDS 2019 (second place for the Best Schoolchildren Engagement Programme);
Russia’s Best Social Project award in the Improvement of Living Conditions and Sports and Healthy Lifestyle Promotion categories;
Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards (a silver award for Caring, a documentary about Nornickel volunteers);
Third All-Russian Keyword award (winner in the Socially Responsible Business category).

Non-financial reporting

Winner of the Moscow Exchange's Annual Report Competition (the 2018 Sustainability Report named Best CSR and Sustainability Report);
Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs award for recognising compliance of corporate goals, objectives and results with the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda in the Company reporting;
Visionaries. Change Management award (winner in the Best Environmental Impact Disclosure category);
Vision Awards by the League of American Communications Professionals (Nornickel’s Sustainability Report ranked in the Top 100).

Innovations

Global CIO Project of the Year Award (Nornickel R&D Digital Lab awarded for the Short Circuit Diagnostics During Electrolysis project);
MineDigital Competition, MINEX Russia 2019 (Nornickel Digital Lab awarded for the Conveyor Contaminant Identification and Smart Tailing Dump projects);
First place and a gold award in the Business Transformation Category at SAP Quality Awards 2019 in the CIS region for rolling out SAP ERP across operations in the Norilsk Industrial District;
Fourth International SAP Metals and Mining Summit (award for the First Master Data Management Innovation);
Digital Pyramid award in the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) category;
47th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (first places taken by the winners of Nornickel’s young inventors competition I Make 2018 from Dudinka and Niсkel).

Awards of the Group companies

Fifth Russian Hospitality Awards (Zapolyarye Health Resort named Best Medical Hotel 2018);
Another champion title in the EuroLeague (top-tier European professional basketball club competition) won by CSKA Basketball Club.