Workwear producer Fristads has at present been unveiled because the headline sponsor of this 12 months’s UK Inexperienced Enterprise Awards.
The corporate, which final 12 months celebrated its a hundredth anniversary, has lately emerged as a pioneer within the improvement of extra sustainable clothes and round economic system enterprise fashions.
Fristads’ partnership with the UK’s most prestigious inexperienced enterprise awards builds on the agency’s place as a provider of workwear to a lot of main UK finish customers which can be at the moment creating trail-blazing low carbon infrastructure initiatives throughout the vitality, utilities, transport, and amenities administration sectors.
“The transition to extra sustainable manufacturing requires collaboration and transparency throughout all the business,” stated Petra Öberg Gustafsson, managing director at Fristads. “By becoming a member of the UK Inexperienced Enterprise Awards as headline sponsor, we wish to help a platform that highlights actual progress and helps drive the dialog ahead.”
Earlier this 12 months, Fristads was shortlisted for the Producer of the 12 months Award, following a sequence of improvements to cut back the environmental footprint of its workwear.
For instance, the corporate was one of many first on the planet to make use of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for clothes, offering third-party verified knowledge on a garment’s environmental impression throughout its whole lifecycle and permitting clients to check merchandise, make extra knowledgeable procurement selections, and report Scope 3 worth chain emissions from their workwear.
It additionally delivered a variety of technical improvements which have served to cut back the environmental footprint of workwear and launched a complete round mannequin that gives clients entry to restore, reuse, and recycling companies.
“As a producer, we all know that our best impression lies within the merchandise we make and in empowering our clients to make higher selections,” stated Öberg Gustafsson. “Being shortlisted for Producer of the 12 months is a powerful recognition of the work we have now carried out to make sustainability measurable and actionable.”
Fristads joins a number of sponsors supporting this 12 months’s awards, together with Accsys, Ecotricity, Enfinium, KPMG, Osborne Clarke, Radley Yeldar, Reset Join, and SOCOTEC UK.
“This 12 months’s UK Inexperienced Enterprise Awards are on monitor to be the most important and best to this point, offering a serious showcase and a real celebration of the outstanding progress being achieved proper throughout the inexperienced economic system,” stated BusinessGreen editor-in-chief James Murray. “We’re massively grateful to Fristads and to all our sponsors, who’re serving to to make it doable to supply this platform for the burgeoning inexperienced enterprise.”
The awards will happen at The Brewery in Central London on the night of Wednesday twenty fourth June, bringing collectively round 600 enterprise leaders, politicians, traders, and campaigners from throughout the inexperienced economic system for one of many centre items of this 12 months’s London Local weather Motion Week.
The glittering awards ceremony, networking reception, gala dinner, and after celebration are set to be at full capability with 90 per cent seats already booked, so please do reserve your home now to keep away from disappointment.
