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Imperial to report in 2004

A second international tobacco company is to compile a social report. Imperial Tobacco, the world’s fourth largest, expects to publish […]

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November 30, 1999

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Music industry giant reveals CSR songsheet

The world’s largest music publishing company has unveiled a social responsibility policy. EMI Group, which has a roster of 1000 […]

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November 30, 1999

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Diageo maps an ethical way forward for its staff

Food and drinks conglomerate Diageo has produced corporate citizenship guidelines for its 77,000 employees around the world. The guidelines, which […]

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November 30, 1999

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Cement firms join sustainability bandwagon

Three more large companies have joined the Cement Sustainability Initiative, an international project to improve the cement industry’s social and […]

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November 30, 1999

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Telecoms sector given extra advice on GRI requirements

Telecoms companies now have their own supplement to the Global Reporting Initiative’s sustainability reporting guidelines. The supplement, which companies are […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

New indicators plan from BAA

The company that owns Heathrow Airport has decided to develop a set of social performance indicators next year. BAA Heathrow […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

HP backs Schulich to the tune of $2m

Hewlett-Packard (Canada) has put up C$2million (US$1.54m, £910,000) to create a chair in corporate social responsibility at Toronto’s Schulich School […]

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November 30, 1999

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Suncor makes headway on aboriginal relations

Suncor Energy, the Canadian oil and gas company, has more than doubled its proportion of aboriginal employees in five years. […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Friends Provident has new fund up its sleeve

Friends Provident is to launch a new ethical fund early next year. A spokesman declined to specify what kind of […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Disclosure regulation spurs on researchers

UK organizations researching companies’ ethical performance are developing new products and services in the expectation that the pension disclosure regulation […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Isis works on climate change

A leading UK fund manager is working with the government on the corporate risks posed by climate change. Isis Asset […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Short-termism and corporate responsibility

Good CSR practice is built on sound corporate governance, says Craig Mackenzie Good corporate governance is a prerequisite for truly […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Pulp firm’s plan upsets WWF

One of the world’s largest paper companies has fallen out with WWF, the global environmental network, over its new sustainability […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

The challenges ahead for reporting companies

In the second of our series on the future of corporate social responsibility, EP looks at the forces that are […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Companies can’t hide from the moral debate

Transparency in social reporting requires companies to acknowledge the bad as well as the good, argues Adrian Henriques At a […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

UN Norms offer firms a template for change

Companies now have a powerful international framework that will help them to address their social impacts, argues Sir Geoffrey Chandler […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Extractives are a mixed bag on biodiversity

Only a third of the biggest mining and oil companies have a published policy on biodiversity, even though half are […]

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November 30, 1999

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BAT finds stakeholders more prepared to talk

Stakeholders of British American Tobacco appear to have become more willing to talk to the group since it published its […]

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November 30, 1999

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Standard Life raises heat on human rights

The investment arm of Europe’s largest mutual insurer is to encourage firms in which it takes a stake to draw […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

How a trust fund could end partnership angst

The business world should create a mechanism to distribute grants to non-governmental organizations, suggests Roger Cowe Engagement and dialogue are […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Unilever almost makes its target

Unilever has confirmed it will miss its self-imposed target of sourcing all fish from sustainable sources by 2005. It claims […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Why Timms believes the best is still to come

The world’s only corporate social responsibility minister tells EP how two new government measures will have a ‘significant’ impact on […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Mining firm helps locals plan ahead for closure

Rio Tinto has helped farmers near one of its mining sites in Indonesian Borneo to triple their harvest yields in […]

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November 30, 1999

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Focus on older staff pays off for DIY chain

Employment policies friendly to older people have helped B&Q, Europe’s largest do-it-yourself chain, to win an inaugural corporate-responsibility award. B&Q […]

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November 30, 1999

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Fair trade bears fruit for Co-op

A UK supermarket chain is to dramatically increase its own-brand fair-trade product range for commercial reasons. The Co-operative Group discovered […]

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November 30, 1999

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Cisco adopts global CSR strategy

Internet network company Cisco Systems is to establish a global CSR strategy over the next 12 months as part of […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Time for CSR Hobbits to get real on diversity

Tick-box political correctness is in danger of undermining CSR, argues Peter Knight There are five of us in the office, […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

the OFR draft regulations: your questions answered

The forthcoming requirement to produce an operating and financial review will significantly extend the reporting responsibilities of large UK companies […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Training and education: the current picture for CSR

As the UK government’s CSR Academy begins to take shape, EP looks at the fragmented state of education and training […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Sodexho gives suppliers some food for thought

The US division of one of the world’s biggest catering and facilities management companies has sent a code of conduct […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

UPS makes reporting debut

One of the world’s largest postal and delivery companies has produced its first corporate sustainability report. United Parcel Service of […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Nippon Unipac unveils charter

One of Japan’s largest paper and pulp businesses has produced an ‘action charter’ as the foundation for a CSR programme. […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

PVC makers get ready for impact study

The UK’s two main PVC manufacturers have agreed to produce partnership reports looking at the impact of their products on […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Fair trade leader reports another good year for its suppliers

Traidcraft, the UK’s biggest fair trade company, has reported its seventh successive year of growth in purchases from suppliers. The […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Office Depot sets up alliance

Office products company Office Depot has formed an alliance with three conservation groups under which it has agreed a five-year […]

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November 30, 1999

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French bank creates CSR unit

The state-owned French investment bank Caisse des Depots et Consignations is to create a sustainable development division. The bank, which […]

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November 30, 1999

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Smart Alliance: How a global corporation and environmental activists transformed a tarnished brand

By J. Gary Taylor and Patricia J. Scharlin Yale University Press. 278 pages $30 hardback There have been some brief […]

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November 30, 1999

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BHP Billiton assesses human rights risks

The world’s largest diversified resources company has taken a first step towards formally assessing the exposure of each of its […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

More on the issues and less on the mechanics, please

EP talks to Alan Knight about his belief that CSR practitioners have lost sight of the pressing global problems that […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

US chemical giant opts for the triple bottom line

Dow Chemical Company has become one of the first businesses in the world to give ‘equal weight’ to economic, social […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Making Corporate Responsibility Work: lessons from real business

By Leon Olsen Ashridge Centre for Business and Society in association with the British Quality Foundation. 36 pages £40. www.ashridge.com/acbas […]

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November 30, 1999

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NGO uses Citigroup as lever for change

The two largest financial services companies in the US have now agreed to put in place lending criteria on issues […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Eastern begins work on new social action plan

The energy group Eastern has stepped up its commitment to social responsibility by producing its first sustainability report and promising […]

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November 30, 1999

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Suncor judged best reporter

Canada’s Suncor Energy is the outright winner in the second annual North American Sustainability Reporting Awards. The Alberta-based oil and […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

The voluntary approach is best, but it has to work, and be seen to work

There is, broadly speaking, an international consensus that the voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility is the best way forward. […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Computer trio in line of fire

Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM have become the targets of a campaign against unacceptable working conditions in supply chains. As part […]

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November 30, 1999

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Time to be transparent with journalists too

Companies with the best CSR programmes don’t need to bombard journalists with PR, says Alison Maitland of the Financial Times […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Citizens Bank aims to show the way ahead with new code

One of Canada’s leading banks says it will implement a wide ranging ethical policy by the end of next year. […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

£1million? No thanks, our ‘morals’ come first

Corporate fundraisers working for charities might want your money, but some of their colleagues are likely to be far more […]

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November 30, 1999

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How the OECD’s fine principles are getting bogged down in detail

Procedures in the UK for handling complaints brought against companies for allegedly breaching OECD guidelines on responsible corporate behaviour do […]

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November 30, 1999

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Chiquita meets SA8000 target

Bureau Veritas Quality International has certified Chiquita’s banana farms in Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama to the SA8000 ethical workplace […]

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November 30, 1999

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Banks review options on financial exclusion

UK high street banks are moving towards support for shared branches as part of a programme to tackle social exclusion. […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Why large private firms should be subject to the OFR regime

The key question surrounding the operating and financial review is a simple one. Will the UK government’s proposals to force […]

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November 30, 1999

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Criticism of CSR is necessary, but it needs to be constructive

Corporate social responsibility has had a pretty easy ride so far. A few free-market thinkers have taken potshots, but even […]

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November 30, 1999

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Land Securities takes integrated approach

One of the UK’s leading shopping centre owners has formed a corporate responsibility implementation team to help it to meet […]

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November 30, 1999

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BNFL ready for social audit

British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) has begun preparatory work on a social audit that could lead to publication of the group’s […]

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November 30, 1999

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Opinion formers impressed by partnerships

Opinion formers think a company can most effectively demonstrate its commitment to social responsibility by entering into partnerships, a poll […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Food firms urged to ban cage eggs

Food manufacturers and supermarkets have been urged to boycott eggs from battery hens before a European ban on their use […]

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November 30, 1999

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BP toughens stance on ‘facilitation payments’

Employees of a multinational oil company are to receive training on a new policy that forbids them to pay bribes […]

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November 30, 1999

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Retailers to be drawn into regeneration

Large UK retail groups are to be invited to open stores and branches in deprived areas as part of a […]

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November 30, 1999

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Firm uses invoices to spread the word

An American telecommunications company is encouraging its customers to become more active on social and environmental issues by including information […]

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November 30, 1999

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M&S takes a lead on responsible relocation

Marks & Spencer is hoping its move to a new head office in the second half of 2004 could become […]

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November 30, 1999

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Tobacco giant sets out long-term CSR plans

The world’s fourth largest tobacco group has set out the corporate responsibility standards that it hopes to meet during the […]

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November 30, 1999

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Pharma forum to map out the future

Pharmaceuticals companies, investors and stakeholders are being brought together to consider long term challenges to the industry, including how it […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Time to make a virtue of legislative necessity

The voluntary approach has its limits. Mandatory corporate disclosure would help markets, not hinder them, argues Sir Geoffrey Chandler ‘You […]

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November 30, 1999

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Co-op Bank wins third honour

The Co-operative Bank has won the UK’s main award for sustainability reporting for the third year running. The bank was […]

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November 30, 1999

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CSR: how it has changed and how it will develop

To mark this 50th issue, EP considers the forces shaping corporate social responsibility – and looks at how the field […]

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November 30, 1999

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Nestlé welcomed into SRI investment fold

Nestlé has been admitted to a list of stocks approved as socially responsible by an investment research firm based in […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Our role is to question, not merely observe

Alan MacDougall takes issue with Peter Knight’s recent attack on ‘tick-box political correctness’ A response is needed to Peter Knight’s […]

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November 30, 1999

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BSkyB spreads the news

BSkyB is to employ journalistic techniques to explain the company’s social responsibility strategy to staff. The UK-based broadcaster, which has […]

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November 30, 1999

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Banks are slow on responsible lending

Too many European banks are slow on the uptake when it comes to devising socially and environmentally responsible lending policies, […]

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Kesko leading Finnish retailers

Only one of Finland’s large retailers is showing a firm public commitment to corporate social responsibility, a study suggests. Kesko, […]

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November 30, 1999