# YY Group (NASDAQ: YYGH) Wins Prestigious HAPA Solutions Excellence Award, Validating Enterprise AI Marketplace Adoption in Southeast Asia

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- Published: 2026-06-05T18:37:00+07:00
- Author: PR Newswire

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_Independent industry recognition highlights YY Circle’s technology-driven operational
scale amidst region-wide hospitality labor constraints_

SINGAPORE, June 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — YY Group Holding Limited (NASDAQ: YYGH) ("
YY Group" or the "Company"), an AI-native workforce management platform and integrated
facility management (IFM) provider operating across Asia and beyond, today announced
that its Malaysian subsidiary, YY Circle Malaysia, has won the prestigious Solutions
Excellence Award for Best Work Marketplace & Integrated Technology Solution in F&
B at the 2026 Hospitality Asia Platinum Awards (HAPA). The award was presented on
April 28, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Kuala Lumpur Midtown.

Founded in 2002, the HAPA Awards are among Asia’s most rigorously audited hospitality
honors, utilizing an independent "Mystery Judge" system with incognito on-site operational
assessments. This year’s recognition strongly validates the enterprise adoption 
and structural advantages of the YY Circle platform across Malaysia’s premier restaurant
chains, luxury hotels, and enterprise catering operators.

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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 Southeast
Asia for YY Group. "YY Circle has evolved into a critical operational playbook component
for premier F&B and hospitality brands throughout Malaysia. By solving systemic 
enterprise pain points such as automated identity verification and real-time, same-
day staffing matching at scale, we are not only expanding our regional market share
but also driving the high-margin platform utilization that underpins our path to
long-term profitability."

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 StatementThis 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 ContactJason Zhi Yong Phua, Chief Financial Officer
YY Group[enquiries@yygroupholding.com](https://www.thailand-business-news.com/pr-news/enquiries@yygroupholding.com)

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