Kesko's sustainable development awards for 2011 are open for application
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
KESKO CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE 10.01.2011 AT 10.00 1(1)
Kesko will distribute ?30,000 in recognition awards to promoters of sustainable
development.
The awards can be applied for by firms, societies and individuals who have
worked for sustainable development in teaching, research, training, publication,
product development or organisational work, for example.
We also want to encourage young people to generate ideas for future options and
will present one of the awards to the age group of 13-20 years. The recipient
may be an individual young person, a school class or some other group of young
people.
The theme is material efficiency
Kesko has distributed sustainable development awards for six times, most
recently in 2008.
The theme for 2011 awards is material efficiency. Material-efficient operations
save natural resources, the environment and money. The 2011 awards will be
directed to ideas and actions which reduce waste generation and improve waste
recovery.
Members of the jury
After receiving the applications, the jury will make a decision on how to divide
the total sum.
The jury will be chaired by Paavo Moilanen, Senior Vice President, Corporate
Communications and Responsibility of Kesko. The members will be Henrik
Österlund, Head of the Material Efficiency unit at Motiva, Jyri Seppälä,
Director of the Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production at the Finnish
Environment Institute (Syke), Minna Halme, Professor at Aalto University School
of Economics, and Leo Stranius, secretary-general of the Finnish Nature League.
More information on the sustainable development awards and application
instructions: www.kesko.fi/responsibility.
Further information:
CR Manager Helena Frilander, Kesko Corporation, Corporate Communications and
Responsibility, tel. +358 1053 23143,helena.frilander(at)kesko.fi.
Kesko (www.kesko.fi) is a retail specialist whose stores offer quality to the
daily lives of consumers. Kesko has about 2,000 stores engaged in chain
operations in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia, and Belarus.
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