Ethical Corporation award winners announced

Having knocked listings of ‘best’ and ‘worst’ companies in my previous post today, here’s a list that we created!

Kidding. Actually these are highly subjective awards we’ve handed out after some considerable study and research, not a list generated by quantitative research etc.

On Tuesday evening here in London we handed out awards to companies our judges felt represented the strongest entries to our 2011 awards for responsible business.

This is not to say that all of them are the best in the world. We could only judge from the entries we had. Nevertheless, I think what we ended up with is a pretty strong set of winners.

Here’s who won what:

Individual Leader category
Winner: Fabio Barbosa, Banco Santander

High Performance category (sponsored by Accenture)
Winner: Unilever
Highly commended: US Postal Service

Innovative Reporting category
Winner: L’Oreal
Highly commended: Petrobras

Authentic Communications category
Winner: Coop
Highly commended: InBev

Effective Campaigner category
Winner: 38 Degrees
Highly commended: Rainforest Action Network

Best Private Company category
Winner: Firmenich
Highly commended: National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia

Sustainability Commercialised category
Winner: Kingfisher
Highly commended: Timberland

Best Collaboration category
Winner: Marshall’s & Hadoti
Highly commended: Marks & Spencer & Oxfam

Lifetime Achievement category
Winner: Chris Wille, Head of Sustainable Agriculture, the Rainforest Alliance

Here’s who was on our judging panel.

Here’s the press release on it, and the awards website too.

Hope you can come along next year to the dinner and awards.