UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 9, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the Russian Business Leaders/Dynamics & Responsibility Contest; the event gets coordinated by the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs every year, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports.

The company won in the Cadre Potential Development category.

The awarding ceremony took place in Moscow on February 7, 2018 as part of the Union’s Russian Business Week. This is not the first time MMK has won an award for its personnel policy. In the past, the company also won in High CSR Mining & Metallurgical Enterprise Contest’s Personnel Development category a number of times.

‘MMK has been Magnitogorsk’s largest employer since the day the city was founded and now enjoys a synergy of tradition, experience, and the most advanced production technologies. Based on its management’s and shareholders’ decisions, MMK Group invests over RUR 200m in personnel training every year. This is more than just investing in production: this is investing in the present and the future of this territory and one of the key components of this company’s corporate social responsibility strategy,’ says MMK HR Director Oleg Kiykov.