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We are pleased to announce that the Advantage Partners (“AP”) Asia Fund’s portfolio, Taiwan-based Shih An Farm has won the 2021 HKVCA ESG Award of Excellence*.

About Shih An Farm

With a 45-year history, Shih An Farm is a leading healthy consumer food brand and trailblazing ESG practitioner, with the largest and one of the earliest full animal welfare farming systems in Taiwan.
Guided by Advantage Partners’ philosophy of “we nurture our portfolio companies to remain resolutely competitive and contribute to global environmental and social impact even after they have left our funds”, tremendous efforts have been made by AP Asia Fund since the investment in 2018 to position Shih An Farm as the leading ESG player in the industry.

About the 2021 HKVCA ESG Award of Excellence

Organized by the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (HKVCA), Asia’s oldest and largest private equity industry association, the HKVCA ESG Award is given only once every two years. The Association received a total of 26 ESG case study entries from a broad range of private equity and venture capital firms from across Asia this year.
Recognizing both the depth and variety of the ESG initiatives undertaken by Shih An Farm in areas such as carbon neutral & green energy, animal welfare, circular economy, food quality & safety and etc., the HKVCA awarded Shih An Farm as the winner of 2021 HKVCA ESG Award of Excellence.

About AP’s ESG Initiatives

This ESG award epitomizes AP’s long-standing commitment to ESG and sustainability principles as well as the contributions AP has made to AP Fund portfolios companies in pursuit of solving new challenges placed on the international society and global economy.

* More information regarding Shih An Farm’s ESG initiatives can be found here.
   More information regarding the 2021 HKVCA Award of Excellence can be found here.

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