In 2020 CESL Asia is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of its “Social Investment Initiative”, that actively invests in local talent development, charitable activities and in improving the community, and draws on voluntary contributions of its employees and business partners that share the vision of building more sustainable and inclusive communities.

“CESL Asia and Friends Sport Fun Day 2020” is part of CESL Asia Social Investment Initiative (CSII). This annual event was created to support Macau Special Olympics (“MSO”) athletes development programs and promote values of equality and inclusion within the community.

This year “CESL Asia and Friends Sport Fun Day” was co-hosted by Sporting Clube de Macau and brought together 17 companies and organizations. Teams from these companies and organizations were joined by MSO athletes on a day full of enthusiasm, inspiration and impact. After several rounds of intense races, Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) was crowned champion of the “Football Tournament”, Tai Fung Bank and MGM won the “Bocce Golden Cup Competition” and the “Bocce Silver Plate Competition”, respectively.

To allow MSO athletes to try new sport activities, Sporting Clube de Macau set up a Sporting Trial Zone where those athletes were able to experience for the first time the thrill of a football training with professional players.

Mr. António Trindade, President and CEO of CESL Asia highlights the importance of this event to demonstrate the social impact of companies on society: “We believe that the experience of these athletes and other participants in this event will create valuable changes in our society and in our companies. Putting people with different abilities to play with team spirit is an excellent way to develop positive attitudes towards reality and demonstrate the advantages of challenging prejudices. At the same time, by inspiring everyone to practice sport, we want to contribute towards common goals to increase the health and well-being of everyone in our companies and in the community. That is why we decided to keep this event in our program, even in this year full of challenges, and we are very proud of the support we received from all our fantastic partners here”.

“CESL Asia and Friends Sport Fun Day 2020” attracted more than 150 participants and volunteers, as well as raised an amount of over MOP120,000 in donations to Macau Special Olympics (“MSO”).

Mr. Hetzer Siu Yu Hong, CEO of Macau Special Olympics shared: “We would like to thank CESL Asia for organizing with us and making this event a great success. Building an inclusive environment for people with disabilities, regardless of gender, age and ability, is very important to increase understanding, tolerance and respect for these people. Over the years, we have seen many companies, institutions and organizations participating in the “CESL Asia and Friends Sport Fun Day”, which allows more and more people to know the profound meaning and social value of this event. We hope to keep promoting together, in the future, a culture of inclusion and tolerance.”

CESL Asia extends its sincere gratitude to all partners and sponsors that made “CESL Asia and Friends Sport Fun Day 2020” once more such an inspiring and impactful event: Banco Comercial de Macau, Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Tai Fung Bank, Bank of China, Macau Branch, Galaxy Entertainment Group, Global Communications Advertising & Marketing Ltd., Jornal Tribuna de Macau, Macau Baptist College, Macau Coca-Cola Beverage Co. Ltd., Macau Daily Times, Macau Institution of Engineers, Marsh Insurance Brokers (Macao), Limited, McDonald’s Macau, MGM, Montina Planning Co. Ltd., Philippine Consulate General in Macau SAR, PricewaterhouseCoopers and University of Saint Joseph.

CESL Asia always commits itself to providing innovative services and technological solutions to the community we serve while it envisages mapping out a sustainable and environmentally friendly blueprint for its Macau business with a proactive, farsighted mindset. Accordingly, and inspired on the “Belt and Road” Initiative, the Great Bay Area Plan and “Commercial and Trade Co-operation Platform between China and Portuguese Speaking Countries”, CESL Asia is expanding the business in Portugal under the foundation of its own “Growing Platform Strategy”.

The Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition (MIECF 2019) will be held from 28th - 30th Mar in the Venetian Macao. This is the 12th consecutive year CESL Asia participates in supporting the mega event and exhibits its platform for Financing, Management and Operation of Business between China and PSC, highlighting its own “platform” solutions to businesses in the Great Bay Area, Macau and the Portuguese Speaking Countries. The booth of CESL Asia is located in O15 where the President and CEO, Mr. Antonio Trindade will moderate a panel of expert speakers under the topic of “New Opportunities in the Eco Bay Area - Creating Green Energy Cities” on 28 Mar in the afternoon during the exhibition and you are most welcome to visit us.

Over the past decades, CESL Asia established a team of innovative professionals with accumulated expertise in investing and operating businesses in Macau and Portugal, understanding local markets and their specific culture, which became the unique advantage of the group to further leverage Macau as a platform to facilitate the development and diversification of the group activities to the new markets in the Portuguese speaking countries. As early as 2012, CESL Asia started its expansion by investing in the production of renewable energies in Portugal and in local, qualified management and operations teams, from where the company expects to increasingly develop its presence in the Portuguese Speaking Countries, Europe and other emerging markets. More recently, CESL Asia signed a commitment to acquire a business in the agricultural sector in Alentejo, Portugal, an asset with 3,700 ha of agriculture land (Macau is about 3,000 ha) as well as other cooperation agreements to better explore multi-party investment opportunities in China, Macau and the PSC, consolidating CESL Asia as the leading company from Macau with “platform solutions” for businesses in the Great Bay Area.

All of this will be on show for the local and international visitors that CESL Asia hopes to welcome at the MIECF 2019 and discuss opportunities to further leverage the advantages of its platform while embracing the new opportunities arising from the Great Bay Area Plan.

CESL Asia - Investments and Services, Limited signed today in Macau a commitment to acquire Saltiproud Group, a business in the agricultural sector in Portugal, and a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with The Bank of China, Macau.

The signing ceremony for the first agreement gathered representatives from the sellers directly from Portugal and the banks involved in financing the deal. This is a significant acquisition, a valuable asset with 3,700 Ha of agricultural land (Macau is about 3,000 Ha in size), a key sector for us, for China and for the World.

This being already a relevant business in Europe, CESL Asia wants to support it in their path for excellence, in our Macau Platform for Financing, Management and Operation of Businesses for the Great bay Area and the Portuguese Speaking Countries.

Inspired on the Belt and Road Initiative, the Great Bay Area Plan and the Macau Platform for Cooperation between China and the Portuguese Speaking Countries, in the last 6 years CESL Asia has been developing its investments, management and operating capacities in Portugal.

To that effect, we are building a Macau Finance Platform to support our Project Growing Platform, expanding our cooperation with financing institutions from China, Portugal and Macau and we have also signed today a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with The Bank of China, Macau Brunch, the first local bank to do so.

BOC has shown an enthusiastic embracement of our relationship and Platform Strategy.

Over the last 30 years CESL Asia has established itself as a Macau company with a mainstream team of local leadership and high achieving, innovative professionals. Always using their knowledge with integrity, striving for excellence in every challenge.

This is our unique Macau Platform, always contributing for the social and economic development of Macau. Ready to embrace the opportunities arising from the Great Bay Area Plan, we are ready to grow ourselves and our team.

Our goal of 6 years has been to establish an integrated Macau-Portugal Platform, for Financing, Management and Operation of Businesses for the Great Bay Area and the Portuguese Speaking Countries, Emerging Markets and Europe.

Most importantly; we are expanding our team in Portugal with the great team of likeminded, high performance professionals, as well as with the cooperation of extremely relevant players, as it is the case of Bank of China, Macau Brunch.

CESL Asia has successfully held its “Sport Fun Day 2019” on 10 November at Macau Federation of Trade Unions Workers Stadium. The event has attracted more than 200 participants and volunteers and raised a total amount of over MOP150,000 in donations to Macau Special Olympics, as to support its Disabled Sports Program and its daily operation.

The event was consisted of Football Tournament, Bocce Tournaments, Invitational Friendly Football Tournament, Bocce Family Race and Charity Bocce Challenge. A Kids Corner & Charity Sale Booth were also set up on the site to attract more participation from the public audience. 70 members from Macau Special Olympics have actively joined the event together with the participants from 17 supporting entities. The team from Bank of China Macau Branch was crowned as Champion of Football Tournament while the team from The Macau Institution of Engineers was crowned as Champion of Bocce Tournament.

This is the 3rd year that CESL Asia organizes this meaningful event, which allows all participants to develop physical fitness and to experience fun moments, and more importantly, this event aims to deepen the understanding and care from the society to the intellectual disabilities.

The event has achieved the success thanks to the great support from the following partners and sponsors: Banco Comercial de Macau, Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Banco Tai Fung, Bank Of China Macau Branch, Be-1, Galaxy Entertainment Group, Global Communications Advertising & Marketing Ltd., Grupo Recreativo das Finanças, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Limited, Jorge Neto Valente, Lawyers and Notaries, Jornal Tribuna de Macau, Macau Coca-Cola Beverage Co. Ltd., Macau Daily Times, Macau International Airport Company Limited (CAM), McDonald’s Macau, MGM, Milton Exhibits & Engineering (Macau) Ltd., Philippine Consulate General - Macau SAR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Macau Institution of Engineers and University of Saint Joseph.

CESL Asia is showcasing its pivot role as a platform between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries (PSC) in the first ever China International Import Expo (CIIE), an event that kicked off yesterday in Shanghai with the presence of President Xi Jinping.

It is a significant move for the Chinese government to hold the CIIE to give firm support to trade liberalization and economic globalization while actively opening the Chinese market to the world.

As a Macau enterprise with global horizons, CESL Asia will showcase its business in Macau and Portugal and will promote the advantages of its Macau management platform for Chinese investments and operations of businesses in the Portuguese Speaking Countries.

The role of CESL Asia as a platform between China and PSC will be highlighted as a business model based on locally established, highly trained and motivated management and technical teams and their achievements in developing and operating high performance public and private infrastructures in a large range of services and industrial areas. With a targeted platform strategy inspired by the One Belt One Road and Great Bay Area Development, CESL Asia is seizing the tremendous opportunities within these Chinese National Strategies to facilitate the transnational collaboration between mainland and the PSC.

While exhibiting its experience of investing, managing and operating its new energy power plants in Portugal, CESL Asia group will take the opportunity to introduce to the National market the advantages of Portugal’s Spin.Works, a partner company offering services and products ranging from the design of aircraft and mechanical autonomous systems, image processing, development of space missions, applications for artificial intelligence platforms, etc., as well Monte do Pasto, as another successful agricultural business that introduced modern management and smart investment to become Iberian Peninsula leading producer and exporter of cattle and a reference in Portugal and in the international markets for the highest quality of its outdoor cattle breeding and produce.

Information:
Expo Info
CESL Leaflet
Monte do Pasto
Spin Works

CESL Asia held its “Sport Fun Day 2018” for the second year yesterday (28 October) with an aim to promote an inclusive society with people from all groups. The key mission of the event is to spread positivity through sports with support from like-minded partners who share the same intention. The event raised a total amount of $160,000 in donations to the MSO to support its disabled sports development and social welfare programs.

The event consisted of Football and Bocce tournaments. More than 200 participants, students and volunteers gathered at the stadium to sweat for a good cause. Through the interaction between all kinds of members in the society including the challenged or underprivileged, it enhanced the challenged group’s confidence in the society with a fulfilled potential, as well as raising the awareness for the integration of all people.

The impact and success of the event were attributed to the generous support of the participating teams, namely Banco Comercial de Macau, BNU, BOC Macau Branch Sports Association, Banco Tai Fung, Be-1, Macau International Airport Co. Ltd., Macau Coca-Cola Beverage Co. Ltd., Ernst & Young, Federation of Macau-China Sport General Associations, Global Communications Advertising & Marketing Ltd., Recreation Club of Finance Services, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Limited, Jorge Neto Valente, Lawyers and Notaries, Jornal Tribuna de Macau, McDonald’s Macau, Macau Daily Times, MGM, Milton Exhibits & Engineering (Macau) Ltd., Owen Sports World, Philippine Consulate General - Macau SAR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SJM Holdings Ltd., The Macau Institution of Engineers, University of Macau and University of Saint Joseph.

As a local enterprise rooted in Macau over the past three decades, CESL Asia has been taking the pivotal role of giving back to the community. CESL Asia believes that education and social investments are the solutions to eliminate the labelling and stereotypes to the disabled groups and to promote the development of a sustainable inclusive community.

On 27 August, CESL Asia hosted its “Kids Movie Day” for the eighth consecutive year. The company and its Social Investment (CSI) Team have been bringing over 15 local beneficial institutions to the event during the past years; apart from arousing public attention towards underprivileged children, CESL Asia hopes to propagate a positive message to the local children and encourage them contributing back to Macao's community.

A total of four local institutions were invited to the event, including Fuhong Society of Macau, Association of Mentally Disabled Families, Mong Ha Children and Youth Home, and Joy Integrated Family Service Centre of Caritas Macau, together with the children from CSI Team made up a total of 120 participants. Being a long-term partnership with the company, Golden Burger (Macau) Food Company Limited has been supporting the event fully throughout the years. The President and CEO of CESL Asia, Mr. Antonio Trindade, Director, Mr. Dominic Sio; and the CEO of Golden Burger Group and Developmental Licensee of McDonald’s Macau, Ms. Michelle Ho, plus both companies’ management team presented in this event.

The fantastic performance and interactive game show of Mr. Ronald McDonald were a highlight of the event. The CSI Team then led all participants to the Planetarium of Macao Science Center for a lively and entertaining introduction of company local services that beneficial to the community and how are those services connected with the kids in daily life. We aim to inspire and encourage our future ones about the importance of giving back to the community where we are living. Hereafter the movie “The Little Prince” was featured, and the company mainly selected this movie for the promotion of positive thinking as well as cherish moments. The day was later ended with a tour in Macao Science Center whereas all participants spent a great time in learning the popular science in a lively and vivid fashion, and Macao Science Center fully sponsored all admission tickets. In addition, we would like to express our sincere thanks to Global Communications Advertising & Marketing Ltd for their support in organizing this meaningful event.

The President and CEO of CESL Asia, Mr. Antonio Trindade expressed that children are important stakeholders and the pillars of future. The company hopes to spread love and care towards local children, and most importantly cultivate their talents to aware that they do also have the ability to contribute to the community, just like CESL Asia and its staff --- serving Macao, contributing back to Macao and aims at enhancing the living and environment standard for local citizens.

Reaching its 30th anniversary, CESL Asia has been actively promoting various charitable and community development events through the non-profit “CESL Asia Social Investment” fund, caring local youth and children with practical actions, adhering to the vision of sustainable development, benefiting the community, and together building a better today and tomorrow.

CESL Asia has been sparing no effort for the past 30 years to take part in the development of Macau under its motto “How to grow a city”. Home to diversified professional services of the highest degree of quality and added value, CESL Asia is committed to innovative and reliable technology solutions, custom-made for relevant references in both the public and private sectors, and also deeply committed to contribute to the sustainable development of the community. In which scope stands out CESL Asia priority to nurture a pool of local talent.As a Macau-rooted company, CESL Asia has been working and moving with the community to promote higher standards of quality of life as well as the idea of sustainable development. Supported by innovative technologies and the updating of professional services, CESL showcases solutions and applications suitable to Macau with a Smart City in mind.

Thus, during the 11th consecutive year of its participation in the Macau International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition (MIECF 2018), CESL Asia will be showcasing its ideas and solutions between the 12th and 14th of April.

Given the comparative advantages of a long-rooted local company, its leadership and over 300 of its professionals are Macau citizens! Today employing over 400 highly qualified professionals — and experienced to work in complex, diverse business and social environments, CESL Asia is well-positioned to bridge China and Portuguese Speaking Countries with its unique business proposition. Having started from 2012, implementing its “Growing Platform Strategy”, CESL Asia can act as a facilitator of co-operation among possible partners from China and different countries, and answers to the call and opportunities arising from the diversification of Macau economy by scaling its business to reach the new markets opening up for us. We are growing our business in Macau and Portugal and, in the process, building unique business opportunities for other local, regional and international partners, all being developed within the “Belt and Road”, “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area” and “Macau Platform” initiatives.

Therefore, and as previous years, CESL Asia will display its initiatives being jointly developed with its partner from the Fujian Province, the high-tech integrated group “Newland”, a leading player in innovative technology and new-generation tech-products in the Chinese market. Among other applications to showcase at MIECF, CESL Asia underlines the smart transportation system, cloud computing and big data, and the opportunities for potential deployment of modern solutions in the area of environmental management, the area of management of situations of public calamity and the modernization of public services and utilities. We believe that all these elements contribute to the sustainability of the social and economic development, the increasing of the quality of life of Macau citizens and the development of CESL Asia Investment and Services, its management and staff.

Over 30 years, CESL Asia not only took great care to build a reputation of excellence of its professional services of high added value, specially crafted to attend to the specifics of the local market, but also has been following strictly the principle of making the city grow with integrity, creating value and promoting a sustainable development.

In the future, CESL Asia sees itself keeping on being the leading provider of services associated to the innovative technologies, the ones better suited to the actual outlook as well as to implement the blueprint of a Smart City.

CESL Asia held its “Kids Movie Day” for the seventh consecutive year with an aim to spread the love and care to the kids from local child institutions and bring joyfulness to them. CESL Asia Social Investment (CSI) Team gathered over 100 kids and 30 volunteers to enjoy an animation movie and disseminate the idea of building harmonious society.

The event was held on 14 October and CESL Asia Social Investment Team counted with the presence of Mr. António Trindade, Mr. Dominic Sio and the most senior members of CESL Asia Executive team as well as kids from CESL Asia’s volunteers who hosted. Kids from Macau Special Olympics, Cradle of Hope, Fountain of Hope and Fountain of Love and Joy Integrated Family Services Centre. In total we had over 130 participants who enjoyed an animation movie and a brunch party.

As has been the case in the past years, the party at McDonald’s restaurant at Macao Science Center was a highlight in the program to further delight the kids with a nice brunch and entertainment. Ms. Michelle Ho, CEO of Golden Burger (Macau) Food Company Limited and Developmental Licensee for McDonald’s Macau, and their management team were also present at the party and joined-in a great time with the kids through the joyful meals and interactive games. During the occasion, the presence of Ronald McDonald and his interaction with the kids led to a playful end to the brunch. After the brunch, all kids participated in an educating visit of the Macao Science Centre while all admissions were fully sponsored by the Center. All kids enjoyed the animation movie that followed the meal and visit to the Macao Science Centre, and made-up for an unforgettable day, a perfect ending for this CESL Asia Social Investment activity.

We all in CESL Asia, with senior management leadership, hope to contribute to nurture Macau kids as they are our future and, in this way, we expect to contribute to their upbringing, to grow our city. One of the volunteers from CSI team expressed that this is valuable experience which allowed their kids to communicate with different sectors in society and at the same time, the kids can leave to give a helping hand to others and care for disadvantaged groups in the society.

CESL Asia established “CESL Asia Social Investment” fund (CSI) since 2000. Each year, CESL Asia devotes part of its corporate revenue to social worthy investments of local youth and community development. In the future, CESL Asia will take a proactive role in promoting harmonious society and in hand with the public to create a better tomorrow.

The CESL Asia and Friends Sport Fun Day was held on 10 June at Workers Stadium, a cooperative effort to promote social integration and stimulate institutional, corporate and public awareness for the untapped potential for the challenged members of our community as contributors for the social and economic development of our community. The event, with the support of participating entities and individuals, succeeded in raising a total of MOP 80,000 for Macau Special Olympics (MSO) to empower its mission of transforming lives through sports.

This year’s event aimed at increasing the number of participants that are involved in CESL Asia’s annual Sport Fun Day activities by including a bocce ball tournament alongside with the annual football tournament which have received great support and recognition from those participating in previous years. The bocce tournament fostered face-to-face interactions among participating teams with MSO athletes and families as well as cultivated mutual understanding through the joy of participating in sports activities. The on-site Kids Corner extended the fun to the younger participants and also helped to introduce them to the benefits of an inclusive society into all aspects.

The impact and success of the event were attributed to the generous support of the participating teams, namely Administration of Airports Ltd., Banco Comercial de Macau, Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Be-1, BOC Macau Branch Sports Association, Ernst & Young, Galaxy Entertainment Group, Global Communications Advertising & Marketing Ltd., Golden Burger (Macau) Food Co. Ltd., Housing Bureau, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Ltd., Jorge Neto Valente, Lawyers and Notaries, Jornal Tribuna de Macau, Macau Coca-Cola Beverage Co. Ltd., Macau Daily Times, Marine and Water Bureau, Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd., MGM, Milton Exhibits & Engineering (Macau) Ltd., Philippine Consulate General - Macau SAR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A., The Macau Institution of Engineers, and University of Saint Joseph, as well as over 80 volunteers.

Some participants expressed their excitement in exploring the bocce game and the hand-on experience of partnering with MSO athletes; while the latter shared their joy in meeting new friends.

As committed at the establishment of its Social Investment program in 2000 and inspired by its motto “How to grow a city.”, CESL Asia will continue fostering the interaction among diverse parties of our community through sports events and other initiatives, while working with its staff, their families and business associates for the development of a prosperous and caring community.