KELDA GROUP PLC - owner of Yorkshire Water - has been named Yorkshire's most socially responsible business, and one of the top 50 in the UK.
The company, which over the past three years has donated more than 650 free water coolers to local primary schools, has climbed from 86th to 43rd in Business In The Community's annual Corporate Responsibility Index - the highest ranking of any Yorkshire-based business.
The national index, which was launched in 2002, is the UK's most comprehensive and robust measure of a company's total contribution to society.
A "delighted" Richard Sears, Yorkshire Water's corporate affairs manager, said: "Our whole approach to corporate social responsibility is founded on the principle that the interests of the environment, customers and society at large are best served through the efficient, effective and proper operation of our business.
"Our Cool Schools campaign is an excellent example of how we are prepared to go above and beyond our primary role of water and sewerage provider and fulfil our wider responsibility to society," he said.
Updated: 09:36 Tuesday, April 05, 2005
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