MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) was awarded as the top Indian company in the media &entertainment sector at the Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Awards 2015 held in Mumbai recently.

Dun & Bradstreet's Corporate Awards 2015 seeks to recognize and felicitate corporate India's leading companies from various sectors. The Awards event is closely tied to the publication, India's Top 500 Companies 2015, which profiles leading listed players of corporate India that are leaders in their respective sectors, including private sector companies as well as public sector enterprises.

D&B uses a propriety model (based on financial parameters such as total income, profitability growth, profit, market capitalization etc.) to evaluate performance of various companies in each sector. On the basis of performance on the evaluation model, D&B recognizes one company in each sector as the leading performer in that sector.

For the Corporate Awards, listed companies are segmented into over 50 sectors basis their main line of business, such as auto components, textiles, telecom, insurance, airline, cement, chemical, banking, FMCG, automobiles, hotels, pharma, oil & gas, steel, computer software, computer hardware, power, construction &infrastructure, shipping, etc.