Date: July 3, 2008
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The Business Ethics Annual Awards
Past Winners
2006 – 18th Annual Awards
Starbucks Coffee Company
Corporate Responsibility Management
For leadership and excellence in best practices in the field of corporate responsibility.
Patagonia Inc.
Environmental Sustainability
For its unique commitment to developing sustainable business practices.
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Stakeholder Accountability
For its focus on creating quality product in collaboration with employees, business partners and customers.
Hypertherm Inc.
General Excellence Award
For workplace innovation focusing on development of people and products.
2005 – 17th Annual Awards
Intel
CSR Management Award
South Mountain Company
Employee Ownership Award
New Leaf Paper
Environmental Excellence Award
Weaver Street
CooperativeLiving Economy Award
Gap Inc.
For taking social reporting a quantum step forward by risking unprecedented honesty in reporting on factory conditions.
Chroma Technology Corporation
For exemplifying the living economy with practices of employee ownership, fair wages, and environmental stewardship.
Dell Inc.
For responding to stakeholder concerns with industry-leading computer-recycling initiatives.
Clif Bar Inc.
For its thorough-going commitment to environmental sustainability, employee well-being, and community involvement.
King Arthur Flour
For handing down to employee owners a centuries-old tradition of purity, for both the consumer and the environment.
Organic Valley
For being an exemplar of the living economy: locally rooted, human scale, stakeholder-owned, and life-serving.
Baxter Healthcare
For rigor, transparency, and leadership in environmental accounting and reporting. 3MFor sustained commitment, innovation, and substantial impact in three decades of environmental stewardship.
Antioch Company
For sustaining a commitment to employee ownership and profit-sharing over 75 years, through two generations of management.
White Dog Cafe
For being an exemplar of the living economy: locally rooted, human scale, stakeholder-owned, and life-serving.
Fastener Industries
For its 20-year commitment to democratic governance and employee ownership.
New Belgium Brewing Company
For a dedication to environmental excellence in every part of its innovative brewing process.
The Collins Companies
For its pioneering commitment to sustainably harvested timber, through three generations of management.
Chatsworth Products Inc.
For a decade of leadership in promoting employee ownership, both inside and outside the company.
The Timberland Company
For community service partnerships and volunteerism that raise the benchmark on good corporate citizenship.
The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
For over a half-century of dedication to employee ownership, despite pressures to sell the company.
Iceland
For a precedent-setting move in the U.K. toward the sale of all-organic store-brand food, at non-organic prices.
Whole Foods Market
For a broad-based commitment to customer, stockholder, employee, community, and environmental service.
St. Luke's
Award for Employee Ownership.
For creating a visionary model of employee ownership, out of the crisis of an unwanted merger.
Equal Exchange
Award for Stakeholder Relations.
For its path-breaking approach to fair trade, defining supplier welfare as part of business success.
Fetzer Vineyards
Award for Environmental Excellence.
For a broad-based approach to environmental sustainability, combined with financial excellence.
SmithKline Beecham
For its $1 billion commitment to disease eradication Wainwright BankFor dedication to social justice, internally and externally.
S.C. Johnson
For its focus on sustainable community development.
Herman Miller
For setting new standards in industrial eco-efficiency
Life USA
For bringing effective employee- and agent-ownership to the insurance industry Medtronicfor its ethical commitment to making human life better.
General Motors
For environmental excellence in production processes.
Reebok
For human rights combating child labor in Pakistan.
Bank of America
For general excellence in ethics, environment, and community banking.
Xerox Corp
For unprecedented success with workplace diversity and employee relations.
Home Depot Inc.
For superior community involvement from all levels of the company.
Odwalla Inc.
For incorporating outstanding environmentalism in everything it does.
Hewlett-Packard
For its commitment to conducting business with special regard to employees, customers, community, and the environment.
Digital Equipment Corporation
For its dedication to being a good employer and an asset to its community.
Silicon Graphics
For its innovative employee relations and involvement in the community.
Aveda
For building environmentalism into every aspect of its business operation.
Levi Strauss
For its leadership in the area of human rights.
Merck
For building a reputation for putting human lives above profits.
1992 – 4th Annual Awards
Avis
For its groundbreaking efforts in creating 100 percent employee ownership at a major corporation.
Springfield Remanufacturing
For its innovations combining employee ownership with financial education for employees.
Weirton Steel
For using employee ownership as a turnaround strategy in the struggling steel industry.
1991 – 3rd Annual Awards
Beth Israel Hospital
For its exceptional support of women in the workforce.
Polaroid
For innovation in employee ownership and involvement
Monsanto
For making great strides in reducing environmental pollution.
Patagonia
For dedication to the natural world and a spirit of adventure in outdoor clothing.
Quickie Designs
For making possible an active lifestyle for the disabled.
Stonyfield Farms
For a commitment to nutrition, sustainable agriculture, and support of family farmers.
H B Fuller
For adopting the highest global environmental standards.
Herman Miller
For enlarging the concept of employee ownership.
Johnson & Johnson
For sustainable ethics-based decision making over 4 decades.