May 1, 2006—Nike Inc. and Hewlett-Packard received the top sustainability reporting awards in a recent international competition hosted by the Boston-based Ceres coalition and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
The winners, selected from a record 87 nominations, also included Seventh Generation in Burlington, VT; Dofasco in Hamilton, Ontario; and Gap, Inc., in San Francisco, CA. The five winners were announced at the Ceres annual conference in Oakland, CA.
The Ceres-ACCA North American awards program, now in its fifth year, is designed to highlight best practices in reporting on sustainability issues by North American companies and other organizations, and to provide guidance to other groups and companies that are publishing or intend to publish sustainability or corporate social responsibility reports.
