The Sunday Times Best Green Companies Awards is a project designed to encourage, acknowledge and publicise businesses and other organisations which are striving to improve their environmental performance. In 2009, Canon came fourth in the "Best Big/Mid sized companies with Medium environmental impact" category and 32nd overall in the UK's Top 60 companies demonstrating 'green' behaviour. Judges looked at how engaged employees were with company aims and whether organisations 'practised what they preached'. Our workforce believes that Canon's environmental commitments are serious (89%) and Canon people believe strongly that green initiatives are not a waste of money (91%).

Canon has been voted as Europe's top camera brand for the ninth consecutive year in the Reader's Digest Most Trusted Brand Survey 2009, an annual pan-European survey of consumer attitudes to brand products and services. A total of 23,000 responses from readers in 16 European countries were analysed with the brand being rated on Quality, Excellent Value, Strong Image and Understanding Customer Needs. Canon was one of only three brands nominated as 'most trusted' and came out on top in 13 of the 16 countries.

Canon UK & Ireland was listed in The Times 'Focus Report' supplement as qualifying for the UK TOP 50 list of organisations Where Women Want to Work, selected from organisations with more than 1,000 employees. This means we share a position in the TOP 50 alongside other big global organisations including Google, Barclays Bank, Microsoft UK, Hewlett-Packard and PepsiCo UK & Ireland.
The TOP 50 is not about organisations for women or jobs for the girls. Nor is the rise of women about the fall of men. The TOP 50 is about providing insightful information about 50 of the UK’s largest and most progressive employers. Both women and men can now research and compare organisations based on their own needs and interests before choosing where to work.

Canon came 74th out of 500 companies in the Superbrands survey 2008. The UK's strongest B2B brands for 2008 were selected by the Business Superbrands Council and thousands of individual business professionals on the YouGov panel.

The Hitwise UK Online Performance Awards celebrates the most successful UK websites in more than 50 selected industries, based on the market share of UK visits a website has received throughout 2008. During the last three months of 2008, www.canon.co.uk ranked No. 7 based on the market share of visits among all UK websites in the Hitwise Computers and Internet - Electronics industry.

Awarded to: Canon Group 2 in November 2006 (UK&I, Austria, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal). Canon Group has successfully received ISO14001 consolidated certificate as a result of the external audits implemented this year. This recognises that Canon Group has a comprehensive environmental management system and strategy in place and is committed to operating in the best interests of the environment wherever possible.

Canon UK & Ireland holds the BSI Certificate of Registration for ISO 9001/2008 - Quality Management System for the installation, repair and maintenance of IT equipment and systems installed in offices and similar locations and the design of training modules for internal and external customer training.

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