Gnosis Advisory Wins Asia’s Most Promising SMEs 2025 at the ACES Awards in Bali
By the Gnosis Advisory team (Gnosis Company Limited, Bangkok) · Award received 27 November 2025
Language: English · ฉบับภาษาไทย
Top image: Sethaphong Phadungpisuth, CEO, and Kaewta Phadungpisuth, Executive of Gnosis Company Limited, at the ACES Awards 2025 in Bali, Indonesia.
In brief: Bangkok-based Gnosis Company Limited (Gnosis Advisory) received the Asia’s Most Promising SMEs 2025 award from the ACES Awards (Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards) at the Imperial Grand Ballroom, InterContinental Bali Resort, on the evening of 27 November 2025. The ACES Council certificate states that the company was audited by a panel before being named.
Award at a glance
What Gnosis received
The certificate states that the ACES Awards Council and MORS Group recognise the enterprise leadership and organization-centric management prowess of Gnosis Company Limited, and bestow the title Asia’s Most Promising SMEs after the company was audited by a panel of ACES assessors. The trophy base is engraved with the company name, and the certificate carries the Council’s signatures and seal.
ACES also published Gnosis’s story in Structuring Success: How Gnosis is Building Asia’s Next Generation of Franchise Giants (16 June 2026), which describes how Gnosis structures businesses for franchise growth.
About the ACES Awards
The ACES Awards (Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards) describe themselves as recognising corporate leadership and sustainability across Asia. According to the ACES website (checked November 2026), the awards were established in 2014 and are run by MORS Group of Malaysia.
- Award categories: Legacy, Individual, Enterprise (including Industry Champions, Most Influential, Leading SMEs, Most Promising SMEs and Responsible SMEs) and Sustainability, plus environment, community and workplace awards.
- ACES LEAD framework, four pillars: Leadership & Vision · Enterprise & Performance · Accountability & Ethics · Development & Social Impact.
- Six-step process: nomination → initial screening → audit and interview → ACES Council evaluation → confirmation of winners → awards ceremony, using quantitative and qualitative assessment with the ACES Scorecard.
- Winners from many countries: the site lists winners from Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, India, Nepal, Saudi Arabia and Laos.
- Media partners shown on the site: NST, Bangkok Post, CNN Indonesia, Manila Bulletin and Kompas.
What “Asia’s Most Promising SMEs” means
The award sits in the Enterprise category alongside Leading SMEs and Responsible SMEs, according to the ACES award page. It recognises SMEs with a clear business direction and a strong growth plan that have overcome significant obstacles while upholding ethical standards, and that have the potential to keep growing and creating jobs. The title therefore signals growth potential, not a ranking by sales.
How to read the credibility of this award
Any award should be verifiable. Here is what a reader can check for this one.
- The presenter and signatories are named. The certificate carries the names of the ACES Awards Council and MORS Group and the signatures of the Chairman, President and Advisor.
- Winners are listed publicly. Gnosis has a company profile on the ACES website showing Asia’s Most Promising SMEs 2025, and ACES publishes a Corporate Winners page where other winners can be compared.
- The selection process is described by ACES. It includes an audit and interview stage before the Council evaluates and confirms results.
- The awards have run for over a decade. Winners include listed companies, multinationals, universities and SMEs (see the Thai examples below).
- ACES published an independent story about Gnosis. The Structuring Success article, dated 16 June 2026, is on the ACES website.
That said, ACES is a private regional body. The award is recognition from the business community, not a government certification. Gnosis treats it as encouragement and confirmation of direction; the best evidence of an advisory firm’s work remains its clients’ results, which can be reviewed on the franchise matching success cases page.
Examples of Thai organisations recognised by ACES
The ACES website lists Thai organisations of several kinds among its winners over the years, from public companies and multinationals in Thailand to universities, and SMEs in the same 2025 round as Gnosis.
| Organisation | ACES award | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Austam Goods Corp., Ltd. Dog and cat food maker, Buzz Pets Food brand | Asia’s Leading SMEs | 2025 |
| AstraZeneca (Thailand) Limited | Industry Champions of the Year and Community Initiative Award | 2022 |
| AP (Thailand) Public Company Limited Property developer | Asia’s Most Influential Companies | 2018 |
| Supaluck Umpujh, Chairwoman, The Mall Group | Woman Entrepreneur of the Year | 2024 |
| University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC) | Nation Builder Award | 2026 |
For the 2025 round, an ACES press release dated 12 December 2025 (published in Malay Mail) names nine Thai honourees: United Through Sports, KFU Company, Eminent Air, AXA Insurance PCL, Minimice Group, Practika, Gnosis, Austam Goods and VitalLife Scientific Wellness Center.
Information from the ACES website and press release as of 8 November 2026. These are examples, not a complete list of Thai winners.
The work behind the award
Gnosis has advised businesses from Bangkok since 2004 (more than 20 years). The core work is assessing financial and operational readiness, building franchise systems, and matching investors and partners in Thailand and abroad. Examples that underpin the award:
- Programmes with the Government Savings Bank (GSB): Gnosis co-designed and ran the GSB Smart Franchise / GSB Franchise Standard courses from 2022 to 2025. Cumulative four-year results in the 2025 press release: more than 6,000 entrepreneurs gained knowledge and more than THB 500 million in financing was accessed through the programme. These figures are the results of the Government Savings Bank programme, and Gnosis co-delivered the GSB Smart Franchise programme over those four years (2022–2025). GSB programme news (in Thai) →
- Franchise matching: example deals include Café Amazon (2013), Texas Chicken (2015), Logiscool (2023), Khiang (2024), Presotea (2025) and others. Gnosis’s role in each deal is set out on the success cases page.
- Regional platforms: attending APFC & WFC 2026 in Taipei and taking Thai brands to franchise shows abroad. See the APFC & WFC 2026 news →
Video: receiving the award
Receiving the ACES Awards 2025 trophy · Watch on YouTube
Photos from the ACES Awards 2025 in Bali
Talk to Gnosis about expansion
The first step of working with Gnosis is a Diagnosis: assessing financial and operational readiness before you decide to franchise or expand. Contact us on +66 96-979-6451 or contact@gnosisadvisory.com.
Contact Gnosis →LINE @ygg2347gFrequently asked questions
What are the ACES Awards?
The ACES Awards (Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards) recognise corporate leadership and sustainability in Asia. According to the ACES website, they were established in 2014 and are run by MORS Group of Malaysia.
What is the Asia’s Most Promising SMEs award?
It is an award in the Enterprise category of the ACES Awards. According to ACES, it recognises SMEs with a clear business direction and a strong growth plan that uphold ethical standards and have the potential to grow and create jobs.
When and where did Gnosis receive the award?
Gnosis Company Limited received Asia’s Most Promising SMEs 2025 at the ACES Awards ceremony on the evening of 27 November 2025 at the Imperial Grand Ballroom, InterContinental Bali Resort, Indonesia. The certificate is dated 28 November 2025.
Where can the award be verified?
See the winners listed at acesawards.com, including the Corporate Winners page and the Gnosis profile, and the Structuring Success story that ACES published on 16 June 2026. You can also contact Gnosis on +66 96-979-6451 to see the certificate.
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Sources: ACES Awards · ACES Stories: Structuring Success (16 June 2026) · ACES Corporate Winners · Certificate and trophy of Gnosis Company Limited
