Eurovia Group Ranked Gold Communitys Corporate Responsibility Index

Marc Hobbins Posted On April 22, 2013

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Eurovia Group has today been recognised in Business in the Communitys annual benchmark of responsible business management the Corporate Responsibility Index (CR Index).

The CR Index is the UKs leading and most in-depth voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility. It has been run by Business in the Community for over a decade to help companies; accurately measure and manage all aspects of their social and environmental performance; shape how they integrate and improve corporate responsibility throughout their business operations and benchmark themselves against competitors.

Despite the ongoing economic challenges facing business the 2013 CR Index paints a positive picture of levels of commitment to responsible business in the UK. Participating companies achieved a high average score of 90% indicating that companies are continuing to overcoming commercial pressures to maintain their investment in and engagement with responsible business.

Eurovia Group was announced as a Gold company which means that it is able to demonstrate openness and transparency through effective public reporting of its material environmental and social issues programmes and performance. Gold companies also tend to expand and adapt their risk management processes by incorporating relevant aspects of corporate responsibility risk and opportunity and are able to articulate their CR strategy in an effective manner with clear and measurable targets. The announcement had been timed to coincide with Responsible Business Week (15-19 April 2013) an initiative taking place across the UK this week to raise public awareness of the powerful positive role of business in society.

Scott Wardrop Eurovia Group Managing Director said: We are delighted to be ranked Gold in this years Corporate Responsibility Index. Having achieved Bronze in 2009 Silver in 2011 and now Gold shows how we are continually developing innovating and improving our business.

Scott continues: The feedback we receive from Business in the Community helps us to develop our Corporate Responsibility strategy and this year we have shown a very real increase in the areas of workplace community and environment management. Ahead of our competitors and peers in our sector we have been able to show the real positive impacts we are having as a business and how we are working to be more responsible and generally make things better for our staff and the communities where we work.

Stephen Howard Chief Executive Business in the Community said: The CR Index tells us that despite the complexities of this agenda and the tough economic challenges theyre facing our leading companies are continuing to invest in responsible business and truly integrate it within their operations. Responsible business matters to businesses employees communities and the long term sustainability of the planet.

As we launch the UKs first Responsible Business Week to celebrate the powerful positive role business plays in society this Index is a key tool to help the public to understand what good business looks like while also providing examples to inspire many more companies to accelerate the pace of change within their business. I congratulate the Eurovia Group for achieving Gold because it signifies a key step on the journey a willingness to rise to the challenge and that they are part of a movement of responsible business in which all companies have their unique part to play. We look forward on working with supporting and challenging the Eurovia Group to build on this achievement as we together drive the transformational change needed to deliver a sustainable economy.