Business In The Community UK has announced that a Northern Ireland company has won the organisation's Big Tick award for corporate social responsibility more times than any other business throughout the whole of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Belfast based Phoenix Natural Gas have won the highly prized award for 8 years consecutively.

John Heaslip, Chief Executive, Business in the Community Northern Ireland, said: "Our national Awards for Excellence are the most credible and influential awards celebrating responsible business in action. They look behind the headlines for hard evidence of positive impact. Achieving the required standard is not easy, so Phoenix’s achievement is incredible."

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Peter Dixon, Phoenix Group Chief Executive, said: "This achievement is testament to the ongoing hard work and effort of all our staff. Since founding the natural gas industry in Northern Ireland in 1996 Phoenix has always placed corporate responsibility programmes at the heart of all its activities. The continued recognition from Business In The Community for our positive impact highlights to staff that our approach continues to make a difference and it inspires us all to do even more work throughout our local communities into the future."

(CD/GK)