Kwik-Fit 'Green' Focus Wins Top Award

Kwik-Fit Fleet's environmental focus has resulted in the company winning a major award from leading financial services company Legal & General.

The fast-fit company beat off the challenge of a host of other suppliers to Legal & General to win the company’s 2009 Supply Chain ‘Make a Difference’ (MAD) Awards.

Legal & General also donated £1,000 to Kwik-Fit Fleet’s nominated charity, Rays of Sunshine, which grants wishes to children in the UK between the ages of three and 18 who are living with serious or life-threatening illnesses.

The Awards recognise suppliers who have made a significant improvement in their environmental or other corporate social responsibility impacts, which includes employee relations and community involvement.

In 2009, Legal & General received a record number of entries from across a wide range of suppliers operating in numerous market segments.

Kwik-Fit Fleet, which has provided a wide range of fast-fit services to the Legal & General company car fleet for more than a decade, won as a result of its significantly increased environmental focus following the summer 2008 opening of its National Distribution Centre in Corby, Northamptonshire.

While the £10 million, 245,000 square feet complex - the size of ten football pitches - is a tyre distribution centre it is also the hub of a major vehicle parts recycling and logistics operation that is focused on reducing vehicle mileage.

Graham Precey, Head of CSR at Legal & General, said: "We are delighted that Kwik Fit Fleet has won the Supply Chain Making a Difference Awards for 2009. The annual awards are designed to award suppliers for their positive impact upon the environment and society.

"It’s important that as a large FTSE50 company we cooperate with our suppliers to improve standards of operation for our own clients.

"Kwik-Fit Fleet was chosen as the winner on the basis of its commitment to the environment. The judges recognised the significant benefits realised from the company’s initiative in creating a National Distribution Centre as well as its tangible achievement in tyre recycling."

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