Chris Harrop, B2B Marketer of the Year, honoured with OBE

Since 2005, Chris has spearheaded the hard landscaping manufacturer’s efforts to eliminate child labor and bonded labor from its global supply chain and improve working conditions, particularly in countries such as India, China, and Vietnam. Chris Harrop said: “Despite this being a huge personal privilege for me, it is sad that slavery remains a scourge on humanity almost twenty years into the 21st century. Even in the UK, there are an estimated 136,000 people trapped in slavery today. One is too many, wherever they are.” Under Chris’s guidance, the business worked with BRE Global, the Building Research Establishment’s certification arm, to help develop two new industry accreditations BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing of Construction Products and BES 6002 Ethical Labour Sourcing Standard.