YY Group (NASDAQ: YYGH) Wins Prestigious HAPA Solutions Excellence Award, Validating Enterprise AI Marketplace Adoption in Southeast Asia
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YY Group (NASDAQ: YYGH) announced that subsidiary YY Circle Malaysia won the 2026 HAPA Solutions Excellence Award for Best Work Marketplace & Integrated Technology Solution in F&B. The award recognizes enterprise adoption of YY Circle’s AI-native workforce marketplace, which serves major hospitality brands and leverages over 500,000 service professionals across 12 countries.
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- Prestigious 2026 HAPA Solutions Excellence Award for F&B work marketplace and technology
- Validation of YY Circle’s enterprise adoption across Malaysian premier hospitality operators
- Platform addresses regional labor shortages via automated verification and data-driven scheduling
- Network of over 500,000 service professionals across 12 countries supports scaling
- Management links platform utilization to a path toward long-term profitability
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Independent industry recognition highlights YY Circle's technology-driven operational scale amidst region-wide hospitality labor constraints
Founded in 2002, the HAPA Awards are among
By integrating automated workforce verification, intelligent attendance assurance, and data-driven scheduling capabilities, YY Circle provides a high-efficiency alternative to legacy staffing models. The marketplace actively enables hospitality operators to optimize labor costs, eliminate scheduling friction, and mitigate the systemic labor shortages impacting the broader Southeast Asian service economy.
"This independent recognition from HAPA underscores the operational maturity and commercial value of our technology infrastructure," said Ken Teng, Director of
The award follows YY Group's continued expansion of its regional tech footprint, leveraging its network of over 500,000 service professionals across 12 countries to systematically embed advanced automation, predictive deployment analytics, and physical AI capabilities across its workforce marketplace and integrated facility management business lines.
About YY Group Holding
YY Group Holding Limited (Nasdaq: YYGH) is an AI-native workforce management platform and integrated facility management (IFM) provider, headquartered in Singapore and operating across Asia and beyond. The Company's intelligent workforce solutions platform, YY Circle, helps clients across hospitality, food and beverage, retail, and other service sectors predict, plan, and optimize workforce deployment. In YY Group's IFM business, its 24IFM software platform and comprehensive IFM subsidiary portfolio support clients across hospitality, transportation, banking, retail, and mixed-use facilities.
As both business lines scale, the Company is systematically embedding AI and automation capabilities – progressing from intelligent decision support toward increasingly autonomous workforce management – to improve service quality, reduce deployment costs, and drive long-term margin expansion. Listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, YY Group is committed to infrastructure innovation, measurable client outcomes, and long-term value creation.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the YY Group Holding Limited's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, and a number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. These factors include, but are not limited to, (i) growth of the hospitality market across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and other markets in which the Company operates, (ii) capital and credit market volatility, (iii) local and global economic conditions, (iv) our anticipated growth strategies, (v) governmental approvals and regulations, (vi) our ability to successfully develop, deploy, and commercialize our AI-powered products and capabilities, including through strategic partnerships, and (vii) our future business development, results of operations and financial condition. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "target," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to" or other similar expressions. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and YY Group Holding Limited undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
Investor Contact
Jason Zhi Yong Phua, Chief Financial Officer
YY Group
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