ICAEW to award businesses that embrace sustainable development
Top 10 unveiled for ICAEW Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Award
The top ten of the UK’s public and private sector businesses that have embraced corporate responsibility and sustainability has been announced today, Wednesday 28 July, as finalists for The ICAEW Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Award.
This year organisations range from the well-known – Coca Cola, The Co-Operative Group and Unilever – through to the rising stars of Otters Brewery in Devon.
Of those shortlisted, ICAEW chief executive Michael Izza, said: “At ICAEW, we believe that even though businesses today are working against a backdrop of global economic uncertainty embracing sustainability is still vital. In fact, the new economic reality means that business must develop greater innovation and creativity in the way they respond to that uncertainty, improving productivity and developing new products and markets without losing their commitment to sustainability. It is about creating a business model which will deliver value to shareholders whilst meeting the changing needs of people and the planet.”
“I believe” continued Michael, “that enterprise and entrepreneurship are great engines of change and that business has, therefore, a huge positive role to play in delivering on the goal of sustainability which is why we are sponsoring The ICAEW Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Award and congratulate all the finalists announced today and I look forward to meeting them all at the judging at the Gherkin in September.”
The 2010 finalists for The ICAEW Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Award are as follows:
- Alumet Systems (UK), Southam, CV47 0NA
- Coca-Cola Enterprises, Uxbridge, UB8 1EZ
- Commercial, Cheltenham, GL53 0DL
- DRP Group, London, WC24 9AN
- Kestrel Liner Agencies, Basildon, SS14 3JJ
- Morgan Hunt, London, EC4M 7EG
- Otter Brewery, Honiton, EX14 4SA
- Redeem, Falkirk, FK2 9EG
- The Co-Operative Group, Manchester, M60 4ES
- Unilever, Leatherhead, KT22 7GR
Finalists will prepare to make their presentations in person before Michael Izza and an independent, expert judging panel in September, and the winner will be unveiled on 9 November at the Grosvenor House hotel in London.
