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Britain's Top 50 Eco-Friendly Companies
The Sunday Times today will publish their first annual "Green List", showcasing Britain's best eco-friendly companies. The Sunday Times Best Green Companies Awards is a project designed to encourage, acknowledge and publicise businesses and other organisations, which are striving to improve their environmental performance. The 50 companies listed in the report are all pioneers - enterprising, enlightened and fizzling with new ideas. We launched this venture to reflect the changing mood in the business world. Today it is not enough simply to make a profit for shareholders. Companies have a wider responsibility to ensure that they minimise the environmental impact of what they do. Consumers, clients and peers expect it.
They vary from Greencare H2O, a business employing just 50 people distributing watercoolers, to the banking giant HBOS, which has a staff of 74,000. All have a common sense of purpose about their corporate social responsibility.
Our Best Green Companies venture is unique. There may be plenty of environmental awards but this is the first that has both a robust methodology to measure environmental performance and a survey of each company’s staff to find out whether the green sheen is more than skin-deep.
Although 88 organisations registered for the competition, a number fell by the wayside. So be it. When we launched Best Companies to Work For eight years ago there was similar hesitation at the idea of asking staff what they thought of management and then publishing the results in a newspaper. It is Britain’s biggest national survey of employee satisfaction today.
I have no doubt that hundreds of firms will read our first report and will be clamouring for a place on our Green List 2009.
I am grateful to our research partners Bureau Veritas and Munro Global for their hard work in co-producing our survey, and I thank our sponsors Eon and Bank of Scotland Corporate for recognising the value of this venture.
They vary from Greencare H2O, a business employing just 50 people distributing watercoolers, to the banking giant HBOS, which has a staff of 74,000. All have a common sense of purpose about their corporate social responsibility.
Our Best Green Companies venture is unique. There may be plenty of environmental awards but this is the first that has both a robust methodology to measure environmental performance and a survey of each company’s staff to find out whether the green sheen is more than skin-deep.
Although 88 organisations registered for the competition, a number fell by the wayside. So be it. When we launched Best Companies to Work For eight years ago there was similar hesitation at the idea of asking staff what they thought of management and then publishing the results in a newspaper. It is Britain’s biggest national survey of employee satisfaction today.
I have no doubt that hundreds of firms will read our first report and will be clamouring for a place on our Green List 2009.
I am grateful to our research partners Bureau Veritas and Munro Global for their hard work in co-producing our survey, and I thank our sponsors Eon and Bank of Scotland Corporate for recognising the value of this venture.
You can catch the full list in today's edition of the Sunday Times, or online at the Times Online Environment Section.
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