Helsinki, Finland, 2010-12-13 10:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stora Enso's www.storaenso.com/globalresponsibility web pages have won the European Excellence Award 2010 in the category of websites. The European Excellence Award competition focuses on outstanding achievements in different fields of communications. This year's Awards attracted an unprecedented number of over 1 450 entries. Theaward was handed over on 9 December 2010 in Prague.
Stora Enso's Global Responsibility website and a related Facebook page were launched in April 2010 to offer an open forum for straight talk about corporate responsibility. One of the highlights of the website is a dialogue between Sini Harkki of Greenpeace and Stora Enso's CEO Jouko Karvinen. The site also features comments from a CarrotMob representative, a forest owner, and a plantation specialist discussing various challenging topics related to responsibility.
"People have a lot of questions and concerns about how wood and paper are used today, the future fate of forests, and human rights in the context of plantations. We want to address these questions openly, and this is why we created the Global Responsibility web pages," says Lauri Peltola, Stora Enso's Head of Global Responsibility and Group Communications."We're extremely pleased with this recognition. For us it is a sign that our open way of communicating with our stakeholders is the right way to go forward."
Please visit:
www.storaenso.com/globalresponsibility
www.facebook.com/globalresponsibility
Read more about the European Excellence Awards
http://www.excellence-awards.eu/
For further information, please contact:
Lauri Peltola, Head of Global Responsibility and Group Communications, tel. +358 2046 21380
Stora Enso is a global paper, packaging and wood products company producing newsprint and book paper, magazine paper, fine paper, consumer board, industrial packaging and wood products. The Group is the world leader in forest industry sustainability. We offer our customers solutions based on renewable raw materials. Our products provide a climate-friendly alternative to many non-renewable materials, and have a smaller carbon footprint. Stora Enso is listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Index. Stora Enso employs some 27 000 people worldwide, and our sales in 2009 amounted to EUR 8.9 billion. Stora Enso shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (STEAV, STERV) and Stockholm (STE A, STE R). In addition, the shares are traded in the USA as ADRs (SEOAY) in the International OTCQX over-the-counter market.
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