The department Sustainable Industries Awards - 2007 Sponsors

Foster's Group is a premium global multi-beverage company delivering a leading portfolio of beer, wine, spirits, cider and non-alcohol beverages. Foster's is committed to continuous improvement of business processes to maximise its positive social, environmental and economic position. Foster's actively minimises its environmental footprint wherever possible because it knows shareholders, employees and community stakeholders expect it to demonstrate corporate responsibility leadership

Westpac Banking Corporation, with global assets of some $300 billion, has branches and affiliates throughout the Pacific region and maintains offices in key financial centres around the world. Westpac's operations comprise five key areas of business, including business and consumer banking, wealth management and institutional banking, and serve around 7 million customers. Westpac has been named the most sustainable bank in the world for the fifth consecutive year by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

The Hatch Group provides process and detail engineering, technologies, business consulting and project and construction management services to the Mining & Metals, Energy and Infrastructure sectors across the globe. In Australia, Hatch's 2200 staff work in 13 offices delivering some 3.5 million annual hours of services to their clients. Internationally, they have more than 7000 practitioners. They are employee-owned and have been for their entire 52 years.

Natural Solutions is an environmental consultancy with offices in Brisbane, Cairns and Toowoomba whose key business areas include ecology, water management, bushfire management, rehabilitation and sustainability. Its clients are drawn from government, development, industry and community sectors. Natural Solutions aims to ensure environmental values are considered in all its projects and helps clients deliver sustainable outcomes.

Ergon Energy is currently ranked 103 in BRW's top 1,000 Australian companies. It services around 600,000 residential and business customers across urban and regional Queensland and has a distribution network which services 97 percent of the area of Queensland. Ergon Energy, as a Queensland Government Owned Corporation, is committed to delivering sustainable, quality energy solutions.

As Queensland's largest family owned private agribusiness company, Australian Country Choice with operations spanning across cattle production properties, cattle feedlots and a central meat-processing facility, is a dedicated fresh meat supplier to the Coles national supermarket chain. With a focus on quality, world's best practice and I.S.O standards, its Cannon Hill facility in Brisbane, typically processes more than 240,000 beef and veal carcasses a year, producing packaged meats and a wide range of value added and further processed fresh meat items for Coles market outlets.

The Coles Group is one of Australia's largest retailers with nearly 3,000 stores throughout Australia employing more than 160,000 team members. Each week millions of Australians visit one of Coles 730 supermarkets. In its 100 year history Coles has become a part of the fabric of Australian communities as a food and grocery provider as well as being supplied by thousands of businesses from all corners of Australia. Coles commitment to its supply chain and direct working relationships with fresh food producers, like its 1200 Colestock producers, means the quality and availability of fresh meat for its customer base is second to none.

Nationally headquartered in both Bendigo and Ipswich, Bendigo Bank has taken the lead in developing dynamic community models that incorporate economic vitality, social equity and environmental integrity in all of its decision making. It does this by placing Bank branches in places where others have closed them, by encouraging youth to become productive, committed and proud citizens of the regions of their birth, and by following internal policies and developing external products that reward sound environmental decision making. Bendigo Bank is represented in 80 locations across Queensland, including 30 Community owned branches, and offers a full range of consumer and business banking products.