carboNZero programme wins High Growth sector: 2009 Vero Excellence in Business Support Award
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carboNZero programme wins Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards |
The Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards were founded by business support specialist, Sarah Trotman of fast50 company Bizzone, and sponsored by Vero, the National Business Review and BDO Spicers. The awards are a key event of the Bizzone Business Expo – New Zealand’s largest event for business. The Black Tie Gala Dinner was held on 28 May in Auckland.
The carboNZero programme won the 'High Growth sector' of the Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards. Since the programme was launched in 2001, Landcare Research's carboNZero progrmame has contributed to the mitigation of around 124,383 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and increased revenue by over 200%.
Excellence in business is more important than anything else Roger Bell, Chief Executive of Vero Insurance, the Foundation Sponsor of the awards, says. “The point of these awards is that our winners don’t end up just being excellent on one aspect of business – it goes right across the business – across leadership , strategy, people, processes and the results from all of those things. So it’s not just narrowly defined.”
BDO Spicers’ National Chair Judith Stanway says the Vero awards recognise businesses that are striving, and succeeding. "In doing so they give businesses great role models to aspire to follow,” she says. “In the current environment, when so many aspects of our working lives are uncertain, it’s important to do a good job and to do it right the first time. No one has the capacity or time to have to go back and re-do things at present: striving for excellence is therefore beneficial to the bottom line, not just the top one.”
“Excellence delivered to a well targeted audience equals guaranteed success!” says NBR’s Todd Scott, sponsor. “Whether it’s excellence in editorial content and commentary or excellence in advertising creative, in today’s economic environment nothing short of excellence is acceptable when so many people have a stake in the outcome.”
Awards‘ organiser Bizzone has grown to become one of New Zealand’s Fast50 high growth companies and global franchise plans are currently being implemented in Australia.
