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Energy company Powergen has sent a questionnaire to its shareholders asking them how much importance they place on social and […]

Oil companies should not be expected to try to influence the way oil revenues are spent in war-torn areas where […]

EMI tops a league table of 25 global media companies ranked according to their social and environmental performance. German ratings […]

Seven out of ten Cable & Wireless business units have now appointed someone with specific responsibility for community involvement, according […]

One of the world’s largest food businesses has scrapped the post of director of environmental affairs, held by Sharon Hayes, […]

The recent green paper is a first step towards the creation of ‘an overall European framework’ for corporate social responsibility. […]

Ladbrokes, the betting and gaming division of Hilton Group, and technology company ARM Holdings have become the first two large […]

BP Amoco is to begin a major awareness raising campaign among staff in a bid to improve performance on its […]

The Novo Group is considered a world leader in social and environmental reporting but could improve by giving more weight […]

Companies should make greater use of their web sites to respond to attacks by campaigners, argue Peter Knight and Simon […]

The first Japanese bank has signed up to a United Nations statement on sustainable development. By signing the UN Environment […]

Companies in the oil, gas and electricity sectors have been the most successful at reducing the social and environmental risks […]

Two international oil companies have produced their first social reports in a bid to counter calls for them to withdraw […]

The world’s second largest tobacco company has hit out at critics who refuse to give it credit for trying to […]

The clothes retailer Peacocks is organizing seminars and meetings with suppliers to discuss its ethical sourcing policy. The Cardiff-based company […]

Levi Strauss has stepped up its support for Gypsy communities in eastern Europe by supporting the first Romany radio station […]

The law firm Allen & Overy has expanded its pro bono and community programme. The ‘Values into community action’ programme […]

Four banks in Scotland will jointly launch a loan fund in September to tackle social exclusion. The Bank of Scotland, […]

The jewellery group Signet has appealed for patience from institutional investors over claims that it is not acting quickly enough […]

The food retailer Coop Italia received the Humane Workplace Award at this year’s Corporate Conscience Awards for its work to […]

Researchers have developed a new technique which they believe can help companies steer their way out of controversy related to […]

One of the world’s largest sports clothing companies has stepped up the monitoring of labour standards in its supply chain. […]

One of the world’s leading pharmaceuticals companies has significantly extended its commitment to provide cheap drugs to developing nations. GlaxoSmithKline […]

Marks & Spencer has been taken off the investment register of a European ethical investment research organization after being accused […]

The utility group Kelda has moved its environment and community affairs report exclusively onto the web to allow frequent updating […]

Companies that consider themselves ‘deep green’ and socially responsible should not assume consumers see them in the same light, says […]

Severn Trent has published its first code of business principles and conduct. The 12-page document aims to give ‘ethical direction’ […]

Two more clothing companies – Phillips-Van Heusen and Eddie Bauer – have become members of the US-based Fair Labor Association’s […]

Australian mining company Comalco has signed an agreement promising to consult aboriginal people in Queensland’s Western Cape York peninsula before […]

ExxonMobil has been told it must allow its shareholders to vote on a resolution at its annual meeting this month […]

Gas pipeline operator Transco has formed a community affairs team. The four-strong team will be responsible for community initiatives undertaken […]

Royal Bank of Scotland has begun work on its first community and environment report. The UK bank, the third largest […]

Two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have announced measures to provide cheaper Aids drugs to the developing world, prior […]

The UK’s co-operative businesses are meeting this month to discuss how best to ‘re-connect’ their financial and social goals. The […]

Almost all of the UK’s leading food manufacturers have removed or are removing genetically modified ingredients from their food products, […]

Nokia is involving its staff in a project to help young people develop their communication skills in schools close to […]

The law firm Allen & Overy Hong Kong is to focus its community work on a tighter range of causes. […]

The UK’s first bank branch exclusively for homeless people has been set up by Bank of Scotland in partnership with […]

Safeway has been shortlisted for the latest UK sustainability reporting award. The supermarket chain, currently in the middle of a […]

Shell is to mail a summary of its latest social and environmental report to all shareholders for the first time. […]

The Co-operative Bank has won the main prize in the UK’s second annual Social Reporting Awards. The bank was judged […]

We should drop the business case for CSR and get back to corporate philanthropy that is based on doing the […]

Rio Tinto is to present its social and environmental report to mainstream analysts and brokers at special seminars in London […]

The definition of stakeholders is now so inclusive it is becoming ‘deeply dangerous’ and counter-productive, according to an analysis by […]

Activists are to step up a campaign against the US-based construction equipment company Caterpillar in an attempt to persuade it […]

A company which has attracted the amount of flak that McDonald’s has over the years does not take the decision […]

Building materials group RMC has published details of its social performance for the first time. Statistics are provided in the […]

One in ten of 342 women working in the private sector have told researchers that the opportunity ‘to find an […]

Engineering and power group ABB says the cost of its sustainability programme has ‘stabilized’ at $55million (£36m) after rising steadily […]

Actors have been drafted in to play the role of stakeholders at British American Tobacco. The multinational group has recruited […]

BP will be faced with three shareholder resolutions on social and environmental issues at its London AGM on 19 April. […]

Oil, gas and mining companies must begin reporting publicly on their human rights records from September 2003 to qualify for […]

Mitsubishi has decided to drop plans to build a massive salt works in the Mexican desert because of concerns about […]

A group-wide corporate social responsibility programme is to be launched by the Swiss cement multinational Holcim this year. The group […]

A leading UK employers’ group is to urge businesses to pay more attention to disability issues in their corporate responsibility […]

Deutsche Telekom is to commit itself to becoming more socially responsible with a sustainability programme for the period 2001-4. Ignacio […]

Nine companies have signed up to measure and report their impact on society against criteria outlined in the recent Winning […]

Companies have a key role in regenerating deprived communities. Dr Kim Howells outlines some practical ways in which they can […]

Procter & Gamble has tried to tackle the problem of American bias in its sustainability reports by handing the control […]

Heineken is to pull together its internal ethical policies into one document that will be made available to the public. […]

Shell has come top of Business in the Environment’s (BiE) fifth annual Corporate Environmental Engagement Index. The oil company, which […]

One of the world’s largest multinationals, Unilever, has entered the social reporting arena by publishing its first international Social Review. […]

European companies are less likely than their US counterparts to cut back on social responsibility measures after takeovers, a new […]

The social performance of forestry and paper companies is much less advanced than their sense of environmental responsibility, according to […]

The Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) has published its first social report. The 60-page document covers the co-operative’s food retailing business, […]

The UK motor industry has produced its first triple bottom line report. Publication of the document, by the Society of […]

Ford has appointed three senior diversity managers as part of ongoing work to improve race relations at its European car […]

The UK’s tight labour market appears to be making employees more aware of the values of the company they work […]

An international mining group has won a sustainability award for community work in a town near one if its mineral […]

The practice of corporate social responsibility raises important legal issues for companies, says Mike Nash Corporate social responsibility is primarily […]

Adidas has agreed to send a senior manager to talk to members of the European Parliament about its ethical supply […]

A US judge has cleared one of the world’s largest oil and gas exploration companies of complicity in human rights […]