Eswaran Brothers honoured at UK’s Environmental and Energy awards
View(s):Eswaran Brothers Exports, one of Sri Lanka’s leading tea exporters, has been highly commended as a Sustainable Business of the Year at the UK’s prestigious Environment and Energy Awards 2013.
The company said this year’s award ceremony was held on April 16th at the ‘Sustainability Live Show’ in Birmingham, UK.
The Environment and Energy awards celebrate excellence and innovation from businesses and are seen as one of the highest accolades for sustainability in the global corporate sector. This year there were a record number of entries for the 13 categories which included Energy Manager of the Year, Innovation for Environmental Technology and Sustainable Business of the Year. A broad range of companies reflecting the best and most innovative developments in the energy and environmental industry were honoured at the ceremony.
“Apart from Eswaran Brothers some of the other companies honoured at the ceremony include Marks & Spencer, Siemens, Newform Energy, Amber Energy, etc. Eswaran Brothers was honoured at the ceremony in recognition of the work that they are doing in ‘greening’ their tea products from the leaf to the cup”, the statement said.
Eswaran Brothers says it has always been at the forefront of environmental sustainability and is the world’s first carbon neutral tea company. In 2012, the company was the recipient of the prestigious SIAL D’Or award and the Social Investment Pioneer Award. It also became the first company in Asia to water footprint tea products.
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