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The winners are:

Management award

    * ScotAsh – manufacturers of cements, grouts and other construction products from power station ash based in Kincardine-on-Forth.
    * Traditional haggis manufacturer, Macsween of Edinburgh.
    * QTS Group – a multi-discipline organisation from Drumclog, South Lanarkshire.

Tourism management award

    * The family-owned Lovat Arms Hotel in Fort Augustus.
    * Edinburgh's four star Radisson SAS hotel.
    * Construction management award
    * The Loch Leven Community Campus of the UK's largest privately owned construction firm Laing O'Rourke.

Manufacturing management award

    * The Livingston-based daily disposable soft contact lens manufacturers Bausch and Lomb.

Service management award

    * Halliburton – one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry (Montrose).

Process award

    * Leading infrared road repair company Nu-Phalt from Rosyth.

Product award

    * Commercial contracting organisation Tayside Contracts' Collace Quarry near Kinrossie. 

Service award

    * Paisley-based recycling and waste management company William Tracey Ltd.

In addition, four companies were awarded special highly commended prizes. Perthshire's eco-camping and mountain bike provider Comrie Croft received its accolade in the management category as did Perthshire's five star hotel and leisure resort The Gleneagles Hotel. Bellshill-based eco-friendly vending machine supplier Automatic Retailing Technical took home the product commendation while consulting engineers, Turner Technical Services received the service commendation.

Now in its ninth year, VIBES recognises and rewards the efforts of Scottish businesses to become more efficient and competitive through improving environmental performance and benefiting a company's bottom-line.

Presenting the awards, Minister for Environment Michael Russell MSP said: "The Scottish Government recognises and encourages green innovation in businesses. The role which business can play will be essential in meeting our ambitious targets on reducing Scotland's carbon emissions and help move us towards becoming a zero waste society."

"Today's winners are making a valuable contribution to those goals and setting an example to others. Environment commitments can also result in economic success – during the downturn I would urge businesses to look at how going greener could help through potential difficulties."

VIBES chair Gillian Bruce commented: "Once again we have been very impressed by this year's winners – they have not only shown they are doing their utmost to be as environmentally positive as possible but they are also demonstrating great business practice whilst making substantial financial savings."

VIBES is supported by: Business Stream; CBI Scotland; Energy Saving Trust; Environmental Protection UK; Envirowise; Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland; Forward Scotland; Highlands and Islands Enterprise; Scottish Enterprise; the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Scottish Government.

The award ceremony is sponsored by the premium Scotch whisky and gin business of Pernod Ricard, Chivas Brothers.

John Fender, Safety, Health and Environment specialist for Chivas Brothers said: "We are delighted to be the sponsor of the VIBES award. It is well documented that environmental considerations, once implemented, can derive significant business benefits: improvements in efficiency, the comfort of legal compliance and, in the current climate, welcomed financial gains.

"Chivas Brothers has long recognised this and congratulates VIBES winners and participants alike as they are already reaping the rewards of their environmental impacts being reduced – well done."

By winning a VIBES award, finalists are eligible to enter the European Business Awards for the Environment in 2010 which attract around 200 entries per year from the cream of Europe's most environmentally positive businesses. VIBES is the only award scheme in Scotland that feeds into these prestigious European awards.