The Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation operating in New Zealand has run annually since 1997. There are no prizes for guessing whom it is named after. It is organized by the CAFCA (Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa) and GATT Watchdog, both Christchurch-based groups, who rotate the annual organization. The criteria are explained on the nomination form.
The winners have been:
Given its ignoble record, Tranz Rail has been shunted into the Roger Award's Hall of Infamy, a sort of "permanent winner" of the Roger Award, to allow some others to have a chance.
The judges have also awarded prizes for runners up, continuity and collaborators over the years. The Award has attracted considerable interest since its inception (even from the corporate media), and has had a succession of distinguished and completely voluntary judges. The events to announce the winners have become highly memorable in their own right.
Roger Award Winner Announced
Roger Award Nominations Now Open
2006 Roger Award Finalists Chosen
2005 Roger Award Winners Announced - CAFCA/GATT Watchdog
Roger Award On-line Nomination Form - CAFCA/Gatt
Watchdog
Jim Anderton - Multinational Mouthpiece - Muray Horton, CAFCA
Telecom Wins Roger Award - CAFCA/GATT Watchdog Media
Release
Roger Award Winners Announcement Details - CAFCA
Media Release
Roger Award Nominations Now Open - CAFCA/GATT Watchdog
Media Release
2003 Judges announced - CAFCA Media Release
Roger Goes to Dunedin - Media Release from CAFCA
Tranz Rail Shunted Into Hall of Shame: Roger Award
organizers decide to let somebody else have a go. (Media Release from Award
Organizers)
And the 2003 Winner is ... Media Release from the
organizers
Roger Award Questions Winners Finances - Murray Horton,
CAFCA & GATT Watchdog
Awarded 12 April 2002 to:
Carter Holt Harvey
Tranz Rail Worried - Pre-Award Release #2
Award Announced - Post Award Media Release
Judges Report
- All the details
And the 2001 Award Goes to ... - Aziz Choudry reports from the ceremony for ZNet