The Sunday Times 60 Best Green Companies

2009 Employer Sector Size Impact
1 Forster Media Small Low
2 The National Magazine Company Media Mid Low
3 Willmott Dixon Group Construction Mid High
4 Skanska UK Construction Mid High
5 Infinis Power generation Mid High
6 Milliken Contract Manufacturing Small Medium
7 BT Group Telecommunications Big Low
8 The Environment Agency Government agency Big Low
9 MediaCom Media Mid Low
10 Hain Celestial UK Food and drink Mid High
11 Carillion Construction Big High
12 Hammerson Property development Small Medium
13 thecentre:mk Retailing Small Medium
14 Morgan Lovell Office design Small High
15 Tesco Supermarkets Big High
16 Logica UK Information technology Big Low
17 Marriott Hotels International Hotels Big Medium
18 Explore Travel agency Small Low
19 Nimlok Manufacturing Small Medium
20 MCM Architecture Architects Small Low
21 Kingspan Building materials Mid High
22 UKOS Office supplies Small Low
23 Saint-Gobain Glass UK Manufacturing Small Medium
24 PricewaterhouseCoopers Professional services Big Low
25 Johnson Tiles Building materials Mid High
26 Wates Group Construction Mid High
27 Sandwell Homes Local government Mid Low
28 Aggregate Industries Building materials Big High
29 H+H UK Building materials Small High
30 Canary Wharf Group Property development Mid Medium

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The rankings above were derived from two surveys:

  • The employer survey covered environmental management policies, environmental training and internal consultation, energy consumption, waste production and recycling. It also considered efforts to promote environmental initiatives within business supply chains.
  • This accounted for 70% of the final ranking.

  • The employee survey put 52 statements to staff which they rated from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree". As with the employer questionnaire, these statements fell into four broad areas: policies and systems, training and motivation, reporting and communications and environmental performance. They included statements on workplace practices - "my organisation always does what is best for the environment" and "my organisation always goes for the cheapest, rather than the most environmentally friendly option"; management attitudes - "my boss encourages me to think about energy saving"; and personal opinions and behaviour - "environmental training I receive at work makes me think differently about what I do at home" and "my colleagues would always turn the heating up rather than put a jumper on". Employee responses to these statements accounted for 30% of the final ranking.

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