Achievement.
Recognised.
For the companies and leaders whose achievements deserve a wider stage.
Discover the frameworkVictory Services Club
Palace of Westminster
A clear reason to be recognised.
WCRC Global Rise is a research-led, intelligence-informed recognition of demonstrated achievement. Its structured assessment draws on WCRC's proprietary research methodologies across brand, workplace and leadership. Evidence establishes the achievement and the reason for the honour.
The framework considers each candidate in its industry and stage of development. WCRC's published research includes the Brand Power Index, Leadership Effectiveness & Equity Matrix (LEEM) and Workplace Equity Matrix. These frameworks inform the recognition; the programme's assessment determines the specific distinction. Explore WCRC methodologies ↗
Documented advances in the business, its customers and operating capability, with the leader's contribution assessed in context.
A meaningful offering, clear strategic choices and evidence that those choices have produced results.
Customer relationships, repeat business and relevant stakeholder evidence. Workplace assessment includes employee experience.
Reliable delivery, organisational capability and the development of people behind the company's progress.
Accountability, relevant governance and substantiated business practices appropriate to the candidate's sector.
Selection is determined through WCRC's assessment. Attendance and television participation do not determine qualification. The full assessment protocol will be published before nominations open.
Recognise the whole company.
Or one defining contribution.
For businesses gaining a stronger place in their markets and leaders whose work is bringing them greater influence. Emerging describes demonstrated progress, rather than an age limit or a start-up label.
The company-wide route brings Brand, Leader and Workplace together within one recognition framework. Each can also be considered separately.
World's Best Emerging Company considers the business as a whole: what its brand means to customers, how its leadership advances the organisation and how its workplace supports people.
All three dimensions are assessed. Any component distinction must be supported by its own evidence; company participation does not automatically qualify an individual leader or workplace.
World's Best Emerging Brand recognises a distinctive offering, growing customer acceptance and a demonstrable record of delivering on its promise.
A standalone assessment of the nominated brand. It does not require entry into the company-wide recognition.
World's Best Emerging Leader recognises the individual's contribution to business progress, the development of people and the confidence earned through responsible leadership.
For founders and business leaders gaining influence through achievement. Eligibility is based on contribution, not age alone.
World's Best Emerging Workplace recognises organisations developing a working environment where people can contribute, grow and have confidence in how they are treated.
Assessment requires relevant employee evidence alongside organisational information. A leadership statement alone does not establish workplace quality.
Join us in London.
Or accept from where you are.
Both routes carry the same assessed distinction, individual citation, official recipient record and relevant marketing rights. Every package includes a professionally written editorial. Choose the presentation arrangement that suits you.
Accept your honour at the Victory Services Club, with fellow recipients and invited guests.
Your distinction remains part of the same recognition programme, with presentation materials delivered to you.
Delegate entitlements and delivery arrangements will be stated in the participation confirmation. Flights, accommodation and visas are not included unless expressly agreed. Westminster invitations follow separate venue and capacity arrangements.
Television features for selected
companies, brands and leaders.
Let people see the work
behind the recognition.
Through WCRC's editorial strategic partnership with NEWS9, selected recipients can explore a separate television feature about their business, leadership and recognised achievement.
Choose a company or brand story, a leader feature, or a combined business and leader story. Television can be explored with either attendance route, subject to recording arrangements.
View participation structureThe television packages include a three-minute NEWS9 feature. Additional airtime is ₹1,00,000 per minute; USD and GBP equivalents appear in Pricing. Recording, transmission and footage usage follow the agreed NEWS9 terms. Television participation does not alter award status.
Business results can be understood by a small circle long before they are known more widely. A defined honour gives that achievement a clear public expression.
A specific citation explains why the recipient was selected. The distinction can be understood and verified through its official record.
Recognition creates an occasion to acknowledge the effort of the people who built the business and the leadership behind its progress.
An exact category, year and reason for recognition that you can reference in business and professional communications.
An opportunity to celebrate the people whose work helped the company move forward.
Participating recipients meet other business owners and leaders at the London programme.
A professionally written editorial explains the achievement and the people behind it, giving customers, colleagues and business contacts a fuller account of the recognition.
Company communications, employer branding and a leader's professional profile each use the relevant awarded distinction, with separate permissions for each.
Selected companies taking a full-company London package receive a Company Health Equity Study across Brand, Workplace and Leadership, with practical recommendations and a yearly dashboard to support management priorities and progress reviews.
The optional television feature brings context to the achievement through the agreed NEWS9 format.
Recognition supports acknowledgement and communication. It does not guarantee sales, investment or commercial outcomes.
A complete recognition.
A company study with company London packages.
Television, if you choose.
The specific recognition confirmed following assessment, identifying the recipient, category and year.
Presented at the London ceremony or supplied through the agreed delivery arrangements.
A concise explanation of the achievement and the basis for selection.
Recipient listing and approved use of the exact dated distinction. Company/brand, workplace and leader rights cover their respective communications, as detailed in the packages below.
On-stage presentation, official photography and the hospitality and places stated in your confirmation.
A three-minute feature in the television package, with extra minutes available at ₹1,00,000 each. Focus, recording, transmission and footage permissions are agreed separately.
An original editorial profile about the recognised company or leader, developed from their achievements and supporting information for WCRC editorial publication. Included with every package, with or without attendance or television.
Brand, Workplace and Leadership findings, a consultative review, an improvement roadmap and 12 months of dashboard access. Included only in the two full-company London packages, at no separate study fee. Explore the study.
WCRC works across company, brand, leadership and workplace research and recognition. Global Rise brings that perspective to emerging companies and leaders through an assessment of demonstrated achievement.
The programme builds on WCRC's recognition activity and London event history. Its role is to identify the achievement, explain the basis of selection and provide a formal occasion to honour it.
Explore WCRCRossell India recorded its division's WCRC World's Best Emerging Brands 2022 recognition in its annual report.
Read the report · page 30 ↗Choose the company.
Or the leader.
Every package includes research-led recognition following qualification, a professionally written editorial and the marketing rights relevant to the honour awarded. London attendance and television give you further ways to celebrate and share it.
Research & intelligence-informed recognition · Written editorial · Trophy & certificate · Citation & recipient record · Relevant recognition marketing rights
A combined company package covering its brand, workplace and named leader, with separate recognition marketing rights for each qualified distinction. Selected companies taking either full-company London package also receive the Company Health Equity Study and yearly dashboard at no separate study fee.
The complete company recognition, received wherever you are.
One company story. Three distinct ways to communicate the achievement.
Full company recognition, the London experience and the Company Health Equity Study with a yearly dashboard.
Celebrate your achievement in London. Bring home a clearer view of your company and a plan for what comes next.
Full company recognition, London, the Company Health Equity Study and a three-minute NEWS9 feature.
Give the company, its workplace and its leadership a shared television story.
The Brand. The Workplace.
The Leadership.
A connected view of how customers see your company, how people experience working there and how leadership turns strategy into results. The study brings research, interpretation and practical recommendations together for your management team.
Either full-company London package for a selected company brings you the Company Health Equity Report, a consultative review and a yearly dashboard alongside your recognition. Commissioning separate brand, employee and leadership studies would mean additional research and consulting budgets. WCRC brings these perspectives into one company study within your package.
Positioning and distinctiveness, customer trust, preference and advocacy, consistency of the brand promise, and competitive context where comparable evidence is available.
Understand what earns customer confidence, where perceptions differ from your intentions and which messages deserve more attention.
Employee trust and engagement, psychological safety, inclusion, fairness of opportunity, development, manager support and signals of retention risk.
Identify strengths to protect and gaps in the employee experience that leadership can address.
Strategic clarity, decision-making, accountability, communication, empowerment, fairness and the development of future leaders.
See where leadership builds confidence and where clearer decisions, delegation or development would help execution.
The study combines available company evidence with agreed customer, employee and leadership inputs. Findings distinguish documented evidence, participant feedback and areas that need further investigation.
Discuss the company studyA management summary and dedicated Brand, Workplace and Leadership findings, with strengths, gaps, supporting evidence and relevant peer context.
A guided discussion of the findings and a prioritised improvement plan, connecting recommendations to business needs, responsible teams and next steps.
12 months of access from activation to your study findings, baseline indicators and action tracker. Agreed progress updates help your team review what has changed and what still needs attention.
A methodology appendix explains the relevant WCRC frameworks, research approach, evidence sources and assessment limitations, so your team can understand the basis of each finding.
Built on WCRC's research across brand, workplace and leadership, including its Brand Power Index, Workplace Equity Matrix and Leadership Effectiveness & Equity Matrix (LEEM). Explore WCRC's research methodologies ↗
The company study is delivered after qualification. Research inputs, participant coverage, delivery timetable, consulting scope and dashboard update schedule are agreed at onboarding. Employee findings are reported in aggregate to protect individual responses. Access is restricted to authorised company users; confidential findings are not published on this recognition site. The included engagement covers the study, interpretation and action roadmap; implementation projects and fresh research waves are scoped separately. Award selection remains independently determined.
A focused recognition and editorial for an individual leader. Company/brand and workplace distinctions are available through the combined company route.
Individual leadership recognition, received wherever you are.
Put a clear distinction and a well-written story behind your professional profile.
The leader recognition package, with an in-person London presentation.
Receive your honour among fellow business leaders and invited guests.
Leadership recognition, the London experience and a three-minute NEWS9 feature.
Tell the story behind your decisions and achievements in your own voice.
The full company package includes all three permissions below for the distinctions awarded. Leader-only packages include the leader permission. Rights are the same at every attendance and television level.
Use the awarded company/brand recognition mark and title on the company website, corporate presentations, brochures, company social channels and brand campaigns.
Use the awarded workplace recognition mark and title on careers pages, recruitment campaigns, employer branding materials and internal employee communications.
Use the awarded leader recognition mark and title in the named recipient's professional biography, LinkedIn profile, speaker profile and leadership communications.
Permissions apply to the exact named recipient, category and award edition, under WCRC's recognition licence. A leader distinction cannot be used as a company or workplace award. NEWS9 names, logos and footage have separate permissions under the television agreement.
Three minutes are included in each television package. Each additional minute costs:
Available with a television package, subject to the agreed editorial format and recording plan. Television packages may also be taken without travelling; the listed television package fee remains the same.
Currency basis. INR is the base fee. USD and GBP amounts are indicative equivalents, rounded to the nearest whole unit using ECB reference rates dated 11 September 2026: EUR 1 = INR 110.7675, USD 1.1592 and GBP 0.85815. The payable currency amount is confirmed in the quotation.
Participation details. Tax treatment, delegate places, hospitality, delivery and editorial publication arrangements are confirmed in writing. Flights, accommodation and visas are excluded unless expressly agreed. Westminster access depends on confirmed hosting, venue permissions and capacity.
Recognition standing. WCRC's assessment determines selection and each component distinction. Package fees cover the agreed participation, editorial and usage entitlements after qualification. The two full-company London packages also include the Company Health Equity Study, consultative review and yearly dashboard. Attendance and television do not change the honour awarded.
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