Canon was felicitated with the award at a ceremony on 29 April 2011 along with other prominent organisations in the list like HULL, LG, Godrej, Maruti Suzuki, Ford, Cognizant, Dr Reddy's Lab, Kotak, and NTPC among others.

Konishi San, managing director, Canon India said: "This was Canon's second participation and we were selected among the top companies both the times. The consecutive recognition is a confirmation and continuous check of our endeavours towards benchmarking our HR processes with the best in the country."

"Canon India is on high growth path and to make our growth sustainable, it is important that we place utmost importance on people. The consecutive recognition is an affirmation of our vision statement that states that Canon will be a company that is respected by people and people who work for Canon and those related with it will take pride of this association," adds Konishi.

Canon India is also the main sponsor for PrintWeek India Awards 2011.

The India study is part of the APAC Best Employers in 2011 study spanning 11 markets including Australia/New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Middle East, Singapore and Thailand. was an extensive nationwide survey.

According to Aon Hewitt, 200 companies from various industry segments like: banking and financial services, manufacturing, information technology, telecom, hospitality, FMCG and pharmaceuticals registered for the study. The study received opinions from more than 40,000 employees from India.

A five member panel of judges evaluated masked inputs to select the 25 Aon Hewitt Best Employers in India. The jury members compromised of VS Mahesh, managing director of VSM Consulting; Meher Pudumjee, chairperson Thermax; Bhaskar Chatterjee from ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises; Prof Shyamal Roy, board of governors, IIM and N Mahalakshmi, editor of Outlook magazine.

The Aon Hewitt study is a comprehensive research to identify best-in-class people practices, enablers for business performance and the alignment of people practices to business. It enables an organisation to measure the effectiveness of its people practices.