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Best Green Packaging Design

ASDA's sponsorship of the Green Awards follows the supermarket's announcement that 'Zero Waste' will be sent from its 307 food stores to landfill sites by 2010. This aim aligns with a review of ASDA labelled packaging, designed to reduce the annual quantity of household waste thrown away by is customers.

Sustainability is seen as fundamental to ASDA's operation and in regerence to the packaging issue David Cheesewright, ASDA's chief operating officer stated: "packaging is an essential part of retailing, but we all know we should use less of it and anything we do use should be easy to recycle and should come from sustainable sources".

www.asda.co.uk

Asda

Best Green Outdoor

Clear Channel Outdoor UK is the United Kingdom's leading outdoor advertising company, providing more than 70,000 advertising opportunities across 6-sheets, billboards, phone boxes, taxis and the Pinnacle portfolio of premium formats.

Barry Sayer, Chief Executive of Clear Channel Outdoor UK says:

"Clear Channel is acutely aware of the impact its advertising solutions have on the environment and is thus committed to a new generation of aesthetically pleasing outdoor advertising units that can add light and vitality to a sometimes drab commercial street scene. We welcome this opportunity through The Green Awards to encourage similar initiatives in other companies in the UK."

www.clearchannel.co.uk

Clear Channel Outdoor

Best Green PR Campaign

Planet 2050 is a specialist communications and change management agency from the Weber Shandwick network, designed to help business, NGOs and governments navigate the environmental and social challenges needed to operate in a planet under pressure.  
Brendan May, Managing Director of Planet 2050, says: ‘We’re delighted to be sponsoring the Green Awards again, having been a supporter of the inaugural event in 2006. As green goes mainstream, creativity will be key in differentiating campaigns, companies, brands, and claims from each other in an increasingly crowded marketplace. The Green Awards recognises the best of the best, and is already firmly established as the environmental party of the year.’  
 
As one of the world’s leading PR and creative ideas agencies, Weber Shandwick puts creative talent, communications expertise and specialist teams to work on award-winning campaigns for some of the biggest companies and most innovative brands in the UK and around the world. Colin Byrne, UK & Ireland CEO of Weber Shandwick says: “Recognising that the media and business attention being paid to corporate social responsibility and ethical consumerism has never been more intense, we are delighted to be given the opportunity to support The Green Awards and to encourage businesses to effectively build awareness of environmental, social and ethical issues.”  
Planet 2050, Weber Shandwick’s sustainability practice

Best Green New Media

Propel Earth bring fresh enthusiasm, energy and a new drive to recruitment for the emerging corporate sustainability sector. We see a future where the widespread adoption of CSR and sustainable business practices are firmly embedded in everyday organisations of all sizes and believe that our unique skills at forging strong, long lasting relationships with clients and candidates will ensure our work has a positive long term impact on the sector.

Melina Jacovou MD of The Propel Group says: “We are thrilled to be supporting a celebration of excellence within sustainability, in the form of The Green Awards. Propel Earth are passionate about attracting top quality talent to the sector, and the promotion of an event like this is key to achieving that.”

www.propellondon.com

Propel London

Best Internal Communications

B. sustainable is a specialist sustainability communications agency.

We work in partnership with carbon management and sustainability experts to deliver strategy and policy to organisations. Then we enable employees to engage with the strategy internally, and communicate actions externally to shareholders, customers and the public.

Finalists at the European Design Awards earlier this year, B. sustainable is powered by the experienced and successful design and marketing agency, fst The Group.

Marketing and Communications Director, Ed Harvey says: “We look to embed sustainability into the foundations of the organisations we work with. Sustainability is often thought of as a very complex issue and we find solutions to communicate their commitments and responsibilities in a simple, yet engaging and educational way. Trust and transparency are essential to the successful delivery of these messages and by working closely with our clients we support them to fulfill their business objectives with tomorrow in mind. We are extremely proud to be a sponsor of the Green Awards and look forward to celebrating this year’s innovative and creative sustainability communications.”

www.bsustainable.co.uk