Michelin North America has been awarded Ford Motor Company’s highest honor for Corporate Responsibility at the 11th Annual World Excellence Awards. Michelin is one of 36 production and non-production suppliers Ford is recognizing in 2009 for helping the company achieve superior quality, delivery, and cost performance and for initiatives that improve customer satisfaction.

The Recognition of Achievement-Corporate Responsibility award was presented to Michelin for demonstrating innovation in reducing the environmental impact of Ford’s products and for leadership in three key areas:

1. corporate governance,
2. human rights and working conditions, and
3. environmental and social considerations in business.

In accepting the award, Jan Skinner, Michelin North America’s VP of global sales-passenger car and light truck original equipment tires, said,