UK’s 50 Best Green Companies

September 15, 2008

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Times Online announces its list of the 50 best green companies in the UK, which includes companies that are improving their environmental performance in a joint effort by management and its workforce.

The results are based on two surveys. One covering companies’ environmental management policies, training, internal consultation, energy consumption, waste production and recycling. This accounts for 70 percent of the final ranking. The other survey puts explores workers attitudes to green issues in the workplace, which accounts for 30 percent of final rankings.

J C Atkinsons took the top place in the overall rankings, but also for best green company in the small company with high or medium environmental impact category.

Runner-up Carillion, has reduced its Wolverhampton head office’s energy consumption by 12 percent last year, and is aiming to cut carbon emissions to 50 percent of 2006 levels within two years.

Third-place winner Co-operative Financial Services scored highest in the employee survey for having an ethical investment policy for its pension fund.

Here are the rest of the rankings:

4. Pureprint Group
5. Skanska UK
6. HBOS
7. Loughborough Students Union
8. Saint-Gobain Glass UK
9. MCM Architecture
10. The National Magazine Company
11. Total E&P UK
12. Infinis
13. Canon (UK)
14. Severnprint
15. Pricewaterhouse Coopers
16. Logica
17. Liverpool Direct
18. ?What If! The Innovation Group
19. Greencare H2O
20. Kingspan Insulated Panels
21. Metsec
22. Clear Channel Outdoor UK
23. Canary Wharf Contractors
24. Renewable Energy Systems
25. Berkeley Homes (Central London)
26. Liberty International
27. Johnson Tiles
28. Aggregate Industries
29. Pindar Set
30. thecentre:mk
31. GenSet
32. H+H UK
33. Brent Cross Shopping Centre
34. Warren Evans
35. Sonae UK
36. Leeds Metropolitan University
37. Eurostar (UK)
38. Loch Lomond Golf Club
39. RM Education
40. Pfizer Global Research and Development
41. Hain Celestial UK
42. Deloitte
43. Muntons
44. Computer Cab
45. Good Energy
46. 3663 First for Foodservice
47. Morgan Lovell
48. Gifford
49. Port of Dover
50. Gentoo Group

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