SOCIETY

Community Development

M&S makes a move on animal feed

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

ISIS claims a first on transparency

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Ikea targets child labour

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Hanson gets ready to report

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Severn Trent prepares to widen its ethical agenda

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

BT examines its global impact

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

BAT tackles poor image with 2000 social audit

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Unocal defends record in Asian trouble spots

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

China comes top of bribery index

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Waitrose prepares report on ethical trading

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Banks to come under scrutiny

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Targets to be set for building firms

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Scottish Life goes ethical

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Pressure mounts on clothing retailers

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Anglian Water is shortlisted

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Managing sustainability issues in the supply chain

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

BP to push Angola on arms spending

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Body Shop diaspora

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Indian child labour project targets football stitchers

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Socially aware business 'will reap equity reward'

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Campaigners target NatWest

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Barclays unveils first social review

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

BT gets lukewarm reaction to its report

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Retailers fall short on foreign labour codes

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

The City's interest is growing, but slowly

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Why communications is not the poor relation

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Mining giants herald new dawn

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

BA prepares social report

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

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November 30, 1999

Community Development

Building group eyes community issues

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

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November 30, 1999