Watsons Thailand takes home win at Asian Management Excellence Awards 2025 for wellbeing programmes

The company’s Watsons Wellness Club Committee offers a variety of activities and builds awareness for its people.

Retail company Watsons Thailand received the Thailand Health and Wellness Initiative of the Year - Retail category win at the coveted Asian Management Excellence Awards 2025 for the success of its wellness programme Watsons Wellness Club Committee in serving the mental, physical, social, and financial wellbeing of its employees.

Amidst the different needs of various groups of employees, the company has created concrete action plans, programmes, and various support mechanisms, such as the initiation and organisation of Watsons Wellness Week.

The company also provides wellbeing tips and builds awareness for its people regularly. To support work-life balance, it enables flexible working and working hours to serve their different needs. At the same time, it also highlights extra personal leaves, paternity leave, collective point redemption for extra vacation days with pocket money, a career break of up to one year, emergency assistance, and a communication forum to hear employee concerns.

This activity is part of Watsons Thailand’s People's Health and Wellbeing strategies and is a part of its three Social Responsibility and Sustainability Pillars.

“Our Wellbeing Vision is just a natural part of our everyday working lives in terms of how we work together and influences all the decisions that we make. We want to provide an environment where we can look after our own wellbeing and that of our colleagues in a supportive and collaborative way,” the company said.

The Asian Management Excellence Awards celebrates the most successful business leaders, innovators, and companies in Asia by recognising exceptional achievements in various domains, including employee engagement programmes, diversity and inclusion projects, and health and wellness initiatives.

The Asian Management Excellence Awards is presented by Asian Business Review Magazine. To view the full list of winners, click here. If you want to join the 2026 awards programme and be acclaimed for your company's employee engagements and management initiatives, please contact Jane Patiag at [email protected].