Budapest hosted the GREEN BRANDS awards gala for the first time

This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2023/6-7.

GREEN BRANDS fenntarthatósági tanúsítványt nyert márkák díja Magyarország, Csehország, Szlovákia

Gábor Lévai
managing director
GREEN BRANDS

András Wiszkidenszky
managing director
GREEN BRANDS

Gábor Lévai, the CEO of GREEN BRANDS Hungary and Slovak television personality Vera Wisterová hosted the event together.

38 winner brands

Norbert Lux
founder
GREEN BRANDS

Norbert Lux, the founder of GREEN BRANDS told: there are always companies that do greenwashing, so he has decided to start a certification programme that rewards those brands which really operate sustainably. He added that the European Union analysed the 3-step certification process in detail and registered GREEN BRANDS as an independent, neutral and transparent scheme, which is in line with the EU’s recently announced anti-greenwashing directive. For the gala, the organisers published the Hungarian version of the book introducing the winner brands, from which those who were there received a copy.

Juries of many members decide about the winners in each country. Jury members attending the Gala received certificates recognizing their work

The first regional gala was widely attended

Moderator of the Awards Gala, Vera Wisterová greeted attendees in Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, German and English

Top 25

This time in Hungary, the voting wasn’t organised to decide who the Personality of the Year is, but to find the Top 25 most influential green personalities. The voters were the members of the GB Academy – the alumni of the sustainability manager training programme of (founded by Gábor Lévai and András Wiszkidenszky), the professors of the programme, and the representatives of the winner brands. These influential 25 Hungarian green personalities are also introduced in a book. //

Although not every winner could take over the award in person, but many arrived from abroad

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