TUI AG has been chosen by a jury as having the best environmental management in a European comparison. In the German Manager Magazin’s Good Company Ranking 2006 the travel and shipping group took first place in the Environment category. “Whether in travel or shipping, environmental quality is part of our value-creating activity which secures our ability to compete for the long term,” says Dr. Peter Engelen, Executive Board Member for Human Resources at TUI AG who is also responsible for Group Environmental Management.
On behalf of the magazine, independent teams of experts and a high-calibre jury, including Professor Klaus Töpfer, examined the 120 companies in Europe with the strongest sales according to strict criteria in respect of society, environment, employees and financial strength. In the overall evaluation TUI achieved 72nd place.
As test winner in the Environment segment TUI AG continues its course of broadly based systematic environmental management and since 18 September 2006 has once again been the only travel company worldwide to be listed in the “Travel and Tourism” sector of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (World). The Index covers altogether 318 organisations which in their sector represent particular sustainability. TUI is also listed in the main European sustainability indices FTSE4Good, ASPI and Ethibel.
Info: The Good Company Ranking has been conducted on behalf of Manager Magazin, a German monthly magazine for managers, since 2004. The aim is to determine the social policy and social responsibility of companies by assessing individual categories. The criteria for the Environment segment are the company’s operational environmental performance, environmental aspects in the value chain, ecological innovations, integration of environmental aspects into business processes and the dialogue with stakeholders.
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