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Marks & Spencer has become the first company to win the top accolade for a second time in Business in the Community’s annual Awards for Excellence. The high street retailer won the prestigious 2006 Impact on Society award, having taken the same honour in 2004. No other company has won twice since the award was created in 1998.
Judges praised M&S for new corporate responsibility commitments on various fronts, including the introduction of Fairtrade cotton clothing, a ground-breaking deal with Britain’s dairy farmers that guarantees a fixed milk price, and its use of cardboard sourced from sustainable forests for sandwich packaging.
M&S secured two other awards – the Employability Award, for its Marks & Start programme, which has helped 2500 unemployed people back to work, and the Cause-Related Business Award, for its partnership with the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity. The Boots Group was highly commended in the Impact on Society category.
Other companies taking honours were Waitrose, which won the Responsible Supply Chain Award, and Pfizer (Healthy Communities Award).
More than 200 honours were handed out by Bitc this year, causing some worries that their value is diminishing. One senior corporate social responsibility figure who attended the London awards ceremony told EP: ‘Certainly some commentators are concerned that Business in the Community has become a huge club that seems to exclude no one.’
A large number of the honours were Big Tick awards for organizations judged to have shown ‘a high standard of excellence’. These included BAE Systems (Young People Award) and Tesco (Cause-Related Business Award).
Judges praised M&S for new corporate responsibility commitments on various fronts, including the introduction of Fairtrade cotton clothing, a ground-breaking deal with Britain’s dairy farmers that guarantees a fixed milk price, and its use of cardboard sourced from sustainable forests for sandwich packaging.
M&S secured two other awards – the Employability Award, for its Marks & Start programme, which has helped 2500 unemployed people back to work, and the Cause-Related Business Award, for its partnership with the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity. The Boots Group was highly commended in the Impact on Society category.
Other companies taking honours were Waitrose, which won the Responsible Supply Chain Award, and Pfizer (Healthy Communities Award).
More than 200 honours were handed out by Bitc this year, causing some worries that their value is diminishing. One senior corporate social responsibility figure who attended the London awards ceremony told EP: ‘Certainly some commentators are concerned that Business in the Community has become a huge club that seems to exclude no one.’
A large number of the honours were Big Tick awards for organizations judged to have shown ‘a high standard of excellence’. These included BAE Systems (Young People Award) and Tesco (Cause-Related Business Award).
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