Outdoor brand CEO is first winner of EY sustainability award
Consultancy firm EY has named the chief executive of outdoor brand Vaude, Antje von Dewitz, among the winners of its Entrepreneur Of The Year competition in Germany.
For the first time this year in the German edition of the competition, EY included sustainability as one of seven categories and it was this award that it gave to Ms von Dewitz. She received the award at a ceremony in Berlin on November 4.
Antje von Dewitz said she was delighted to be the inaugural winner of the sustainability award. She said Vaude had been carbon neutral in its operations in Germany since 2012 and would achieve global carbon neutrality in 2022.
She said EY’s introduction of this particular award made it clear that sustainability and business belong together. “All companies need to address global challenges such as climate change,” she added.
