The Sunday Times 50 Best Green Companies

2008 Employer Sector Size Impact
1 J C Atkinson and Son Manufacturing Small Medium
2 Carillion Construction Big High
3 Co-operative Financial Services Financial services Big Medium
4 Pureprint Group Printing & Publishing Small Medium
5 Skanska UK Construction Big High
6 HBOS Financial services Big Medium
7 Loughborough Students Union Education Small Low
8 Saint-Gobain Glass UK Manufacturing Small Medium
9 MCM Architecture Architects Small Low
10 The National Magazine Company Media Mid Low
11 Total E&P UK Oil & gas Mid High
12 Infinis Power generation Small High
13 Canon (UK) Electronic & electrical Mid Medium
14 Severnprint Printing & Publishing Small Medium
15 Pricewaterhouse Coopers Professional services Big Low
16 Logica IT services Big Low
17 Liverpool Direct Customer services Mid Low
18 ?What If! The Innovation Group Business services Small Low
19 Greencare H2O Business services Small Low
20 Kingspan Insulated Panels Building materials Mid High
21 Metsec Manufacturing Mid Medium
22 Clear Channel Outdoor UK Advertising Mid Low
23 Canary Wharf Contractors Property development Mid Medium
24 Renewable Energy Systems Engineering Small High
25 Berkeley Homes (Central London) Property development Small Medium
26 Liberty International Property development Mid Medium
27 Johnson Tiles Building materials Mid High
28 Aggregate Industries Building materials Big High
29 Pindar Set Media Mid Low
30 thecentre:mk Retailing Small 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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