Quite
predictably, Erdenet Mining Corporation and MCS Group are on top of the list of
the best 100 enterprises in Mongolia
in 2009. This is the 9^th time the Government and the Mongolian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry have prepared a list of the best 100 business
companies in the country, grading enterprises on the basis of their
contribution to national economic and social development. Among the criteria
used in the evaluation are the amount of taxes paid and of investment made, and
the nature of the programs showing a sense of social responsibility, the amount
spent on them, and the results achieved.

MCS
Group has headed the list for the fourth consecutive year. It paid MNT13.5
billion in taxes and fees in 2004, MNT23.1 billion in 2005, MNT32.5 billion in
2006, MNT47.8 billion in 2007, MNT67.2 billion in 2008, and MNT66.6 billion in
2009, making up a total of MNT250.7 billion in the last 6 years. The group
created 2,690 new jobs in the last three years — 616 of them in 2007, 442 in
2008, and 1,632 in 2009.