The Sustainable 60 series, a Fairfax Media Business Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers programme, is designed to uncover New Zealand's most future proof companies.
More than 110 entries were received for the inaugural Sustainable 60 Awards, from 48 companies across five categories:. Strategy and Governance, Marketplace, Workplace, Community and Environment. Companies were able to submit entries for one, many or all of the categories with several of the companies being named finalists in more than one category.
Many of the finalists in the inaugural Sustainable 60 Awards will be recognisable as either winners or finalists in both the Regional SBN and NZI National Sustainable Business Network Awards in 2009 and previous years.
Rachel Brown, CEO Sustainable Business Network, was one of the esteemed judges involved in whittling down the entries to the following list of finalists:
Strategy/Governance
carboNZero
Landcare Research Ltd
Nomad Safaris
State of Grace
Watercare Services Ltd
Westpac
Workplace
Auckland Regional Council
carboNZero
Landcare Research Ltd
North Shore City Council
Urgent Couriers
Westpac
Marketplace
carboNZero
Corporate Express
IAG NZ
Kokako
Moxie Design Group
Sinclair Knight Merz
Westpac
Environment
AMP Capital/Bayfair Centre
Landcare Research
Mighty River Power
North Shore City Council
Urgent Couriers
Westpac
Community
Accor Hospitality
Fonterra Ltd/Sanitarium
Hayes Knight
IAG NZ
Locus Research
Westpac
Overall Small Exemplar
Locus Research
Nomad Safaris
Overall Medium Exemplar
The New Zealand Merino Company
Urgent Couriers
Yealands Estate Wine
Overall Large Exemplar
Auckland Regional Council
IAG NZ
Landcare Research Ltd
Northshore City Council
Westpac
Other judges included:
- Rick Christie - Chairman of Ebos Group Ltd
- Rob Fenwick - Company director and co-founder of Living Earth Ltd
- Jane Henley - Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand Green Building Council
- June McCabe - Director, Sustainable Prosperity
- Justine Munro - Chief Executive Officer, NZ Centre for Social Innovation
- Lester Oakes - Chief Executive Officer, Career Services Rapaura
- Rod Oram - Business Journalist
- Alison Sykora - Company Communications & Corporate Responsibility, Vodafone New Zealand
- Simon Upton - Chair of the OECD Roundtable on Sustainable Development and advisor to PricewaterhouseCoopers
The series is sponsored by Andrew.Stewart, HSBC, Massey University, Maven and Ricoh.
The winners will be announced at an awards cocktail function to be held in the Grand Tearoom at the Heritage Hotel, Auckland on 2nd December. This will be a night of celebrating and showcasing the journeys of the finalists and the winners.
