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Seven global transport and logistics companies are to produce a set of social and environmental performance indicators for their sector […]

McDonald’s has now trained two-thirds of its global suppliers in social responsibility. The fast food group, which has 30,000 restaurants […]

The Dutch government has established an independent ‘knowledge centre’ on corporate social responsibility to act as a national information point. […]

The Azerbaijan government has formally agreed to disclose revenues received from oil and gas companies. Under a memorandum of understanding, […]

Most companies want to get bigger and bigger. John Abrams’ is one that doesn’t – and prospers. It’s a cherished […]

A small Welsh clothing company is using its mail order catalogue to present information on its approach to corporate social […]

Two leading CSR consultancies have warned that social reporting in the UK will take a ‘backwards step’ next year when […]

UK consumers increased their spending on ethical goods and services by 16 per cent in 2003, while UK household expenditure […]

The chairman of the UK brewing company Adnams, which has left Business in the Community on the grounds that the […]

The BBC is creating a human rights framework tailored to the specific needs of a media organization with operations in […]

A United Nations health specialist has suggested pharmaceutical companies and human rights workers co-operate more closely to find ways of […]

One of the best-known SRI asset managers in the US has practised what it preaches by publishing its first sustainability […]

Research has begun in Europe to assess the financial benefits to companies of adopting sustainability programmes. The Advance project, funded […]

UK ministers are considering a proposal for an international forum on CSR that would try to galvanize governments to do […]

Building materials group RMC has decided to give greater weight to community issues in its second UK environment report, which […]

British Airways is to produce its first social report in July. The document will be combined with BA’s ninth environment […]

The global mining industry is to launch an ambitious £3 million project next month to devise a sustainable business strategy […]

A good communications strategy lies at the heart of any successful corporate social responsibility programme, argues Pauline Ryder Given the […]

Senior managers think there is a strong link between the environmental and financial performance of their companies, but the City […]

Two-thirds of UK-listed retailers have yet to adopt any formal code of conduct on overseas labour standards, according to a […]

BT has had a disappointing response from the public to its first social report. Chris Tuppen, BT’s corporate manager for […]

Barclays has become the latest UK high street bank to produce a social report. The 30-page document, billed by Barclays […]

NatWest is being targeted by a new campaign focusing on its dealings with a UK laboratory. A coalition of animal […]

A Swiss bank has concluded that socially responsible European businesses will ‘inevitably’ reap benefits on the equity markets over the […]

A new scheme to eliminate child labour in the football stitching industry of northern India has begun under the supervision […]

Former Body Shop adviser David Wheeler has joined the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto as director […]

BP Amoco has said it will push Angola to clarify how that country’s government spends money raised from oil companies […]

By working in partnership with suppliers to improve their social, ethical and environmental performance, companies can reduce business risks for […]

Anglian Water of the UK has been included on the shortlist for the 1999 Environment Reporting Awards, which it won […]

High street clothes shops are having to pay increasing attention to regular and thorough monitoring of suppliers, as journalists and […]

Scottish Life has launched its first ethical pension fund. The Edinburgh-based company will use positive and negative screening provided by […]

A set of sustainability indicators and targets is to be drawn up for the UK construction industry. In a project […]

The attitudes of UK banks to ethnic minority businesses are to be investigated in a two year study. The study, […]

The Waitrose supermarket chain is to publish its first ethical trading report early next year. The report, which will outline […]

Chinese companies are perceived to be the most willing to pay bribes, according to a Bribe Payer Perception Index produced […]

Multinational oil company Unocal has defended its presence in some of the world’s human rights hotspots with a corporate responsibility […]

One of the world’s leading tobacco manufacturers has committed itself to producing a social report in 2001. British American Tobacco […]

BT is to produce a document looking at the potentially negative impact of global communications technology on indigenous cultures. Jan […]

Severn Trent may soon widen the remit of its external environmental advisory panel to cover social and ethical issues. The […]

Building materials group Hanson is planning to report on corporate responsibility matters for the first time next year. The UK-based […]

Ikea has begun discussions with Unicef, the United Nations children’s agency, on countering child labour in the north Indian state […]

A leading socially responsible investment fund manager is claiming to have become the first European fund management company to disclose […]

Marks & Spencer has promised to become the first UK high street retailer to start removing genetically modified soya and […]

Eight businesses in South Africa have agreed to pilot draft guidelines on the disclosure of corporate policies on HIV/Aids. The […]

Social and ethical issues are to be incorporated into supply chain auditing at the UK’s largest retail chemist. Boots the […]

Ladies fashion retailer New Look is to send copies of a new ethical aims statement to suppliers of accessories such […]

One of the world’s oldest business responsibility bodies is asking its members to make much greater efforts on CSR. EP […]

The entry of an intellectual heavyweight like Michael Porter into the debate on corporate social responsibility is a further sign […]

Investment analysts need to start taking more account of how the environmental performance of a listed company can have a […]

Banco Bilbao Viscaya Argentaria has become the first Spanish bank to adopt the Equator Principles, which set out social and […]

One of the UK’s largest non-governmental organizations is to set up a fair trade coffee business in partnership with the […]

A number of software packages have appeared in recent months, designed to help companies manage their reputation by assessing and […]

Three of the largest food and drink producers now have a clear policy rejecting the use of genetically modified foodstuffs, […]

Unilever subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s has taken on a UK charity as a franchisee for one of its ice cream […]

Nike has done well to settle with the environmental campaigner Marc Kasky. Having taken its case to the highest court […]

Companies should stop complaining that financial analysts are ignoring their corporate responsibility initiatives, argues Roger Cowe I am beginning to […]

Cafedirect, Britain’s largest fair-trade hot drinks group by market value, hopes to raise £5million ($9.4m) in the country’s highest-profile ethical […]

National Grid Transco has come top of the second Corporate Responsibility Index, produced by Business in the Community. The index, […]

Medical equipment manufacturer Nycomed-Amersham is to produce its first standalone environment report at the end of next year. The report […]

Investment management firm ING is to take more account of human rights issues in its investment portfolio this year. The […]

Westpac has become the first Australian bank to publish a social report. The document uses social performance indicators created by […]

Almost half of The Co-operative Bank’s suppliers now claim its ethical policies have changed the way they run their businesses. […]

European countries are likely to adopt a North American initiative that encourages students to consider the ethical performance of employers […]

Two food companies are the joint winners of the first US Sustainability Reporting Awards. Ice cream makers Ben & Jerry’s […]

The US Supreme Court has declined to come to a decision on the Nike v Kasky case, which had been […]

The telecommunications and technology company Siemens has publicly committed itself to employing more women. The German-based group, which has 484,000 […]

The majority of companies in the Kingfisher retail group are adequately managing social and environmental risks in most areas, according […]

The Boots Group will achieve triple bottom line reporting this month by adding an environment report to its community review […]

The world’s largest pharmaceutical group has fared poorly in a rating of how the top 11 drugs companies perform on […]

The Co-operative Group is to make a major change to its social reporting regime. Until now the UK group has […]

Good social reports clarify the impact companies have on society. But some fudge the difficult issues, say Peter Knight and […]

One of the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers has agreed a set of corporate social responsibility principles with staff representatives and […]