# M&S wins Company of the Year at BiTC Awards

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/07/18/mamps-wins-company-year-bitc-awards/
- Published: 2004-07-18T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Marks & Spencer has been named Company of the Year at the Business in the Community
Awards for Excellence 2004.**

M&S bosses won a brief reprieve from the pressure of Philip Green’s anticipated 
offer for the company with recognition for the retailer’s approach to Corporate 
Social Responsibility. The Company of the Year award was made in recognition of 
the commitment of M&S to CSR.

The company has received recognition from Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the
Marine Conservation Society for its policies on GM foods, pesticide reduction and
sourcing of fish. As a result M&S has been named as the Dow Jones Sustainability
Index’s most sustainable retailer in the world in the past two years.

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Other winners at the awards included BT, which won the Cause Related Marketing Award
for Excellence for its “Am I Listening” campaign with ChildLine, and BskyB which
won the Education & Lifelong Learning prize.

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