The Go-Ahead Group this week received a highly commended award in the inaugural Sir Mervyn Pedelty Award launched by FTSE Group to recognise companies which have made the most significant improvements to their business’ sustainability.
FTSE created the award in memory of the late Sir Mervyn Pedelty, former chief executive of the Co-operative Bank, and former chairman of the FTSE4Good Policy Committee.
Companies were judged partly on their FTSE4Good ESG ratings, as well as on the quality of their sustainability strategy and the delivery against that strategy over recent years, together with quantified evidence of their achievements.
Mark Makepeace presented the award to Go-Ahead Group chief executive David Brown at the London Stock Exchange.
Brown said: “We are delighted to be highly commended in the inaugural Sir Mervyn Pedelty FTSE4Good Award.
“Running our businesses in a safe, socially and environmentally responsible manner is central to our strategy at Go-Ahead and this approach is integrated into our daily operations.
“We have made good progress and will continue to build on our achievements to date by, for example, focussing on our target of reducing our C02 emissions per passenger journey by 20 per cent by 2015.”
The inaugural winner was Unilever, with Go-Ahead, Intel and Diageo all receiving highly commended.
Go-Ahead operate the Southern, Southeastern and London Midland franchises.
