Archive for April 2010

  • How to score an own goal

    added on April 28, 2011 by Peter Truesdale

    Today’s Guardian tells us that a tobacco company secretly funded the campaign by the National Federation of Retail Newsagents against the proposed ban on cigarettes being displayed for sale in shops. Imbeciles!
    We live in a Freedom of Information age.  The adverse consequences of cover-up are always worse than those of the original crime. (Think Andrew [...]

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  • In pursuit of happiness..?

    added on April 27, 2011 by Richard

    Sandwiched between two bank holidays in the UK, it’s time to think about happiness. What might be the role for businesses in the new movement of wellbeing?
    The Governments of France, Canada and the UK have commissioned studies into citizen wellbeing. The UK’s Archbishop of Canterbury used his Easter address to call for a focus on [...]

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  • Consistent standards?

    added on April 21, 2011 by Peter Truesdale

    Today’s story Outrage as Malaysia sends ‘effeminate’ boys to anti-gay camp shows that not everyone in the world has the same attitude to diversity those in company HQs in New York, London or Paris. Yet in reporting corporates now regularly churn out a few paragraphs about how they encourage diversity in their workforce against every [...]

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  • To save or not to save that is the question

    added on April 20, 2011 by Peter Truesdale

    P-E-N-S-I-O-N-S. Now what bit of that don’t you understand? Pensions, right? What old people get. (You know the ones who can’t bear to miss Countdown. The ones that clog up the buses using their wrinklie passes when you are trying to get to work.) Got it? Good.
    The Treasury certainly get it. They have taken a [...]

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  • Corporate Citizenship featured in Kathimerini on Sunday

    added on April 18, 2011 by Corporate Citizenship

    Corporate Citizenship’s partnership with V+O Communications in Athens has been featured in Kathimerini on Sunday, Greece’s leading business and financial paper.
    Click here to view the article

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  • CAN’T DO RIGHT FOR DOING WRONG – DETERGENT COMPANIES WASHED UP

    added on April 14, 2011 by Peter Truesdale

    Henkel, P&G and Unilever got together “to implement an industry-wide programme to improve the environmental performance of detergents” (Guardian 14 April). Indeed they all went away to implement European detergents industry’s Code of Good Environmental Practice. Well done boys and girls! Let’s put up bunting to celebrate this big, green leap forward. 
    Or rather, let’s not.
    For [...]

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  • Amanda Jordan speaking at the Forum for Sustainable Business conference in Prague

    added on April 13, 2011 by Corporate Citizenship

    On Thursday 14th April, Corporate Citizenship’s director and co-chair Amanda Jordan will be guest speaker at the Forum for Sustainable Business conference in Prague, presenting on “Next Steps in Sustainability – A Global View”.
    Visit the official website here

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  • Latest Knowledge Series video online

    added on April 12, 2011 by Corporate Citizenship

    Visit our Vimeo channel to view the latest Knowledge Series event on Business and Biodiversity, chaired by Corporate Citizenship’s David Logan with guest speakers Annelisa Grigg (Globalbalance); Pippa Howard (Fauna and Flora International) and Sarah Biddulph (United Utilities).

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  • The end of free labour?

    added on April 5, 2011 by Nicole Clucas

    The debate about unpaid internships has rumbled on for years and the Government’s new intiative highlights that it is still an issue across many industries.
    Internships are a popular way for graduates to get work experience, particularly with permanent roles so thin on the ground. A survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters last year found [...]

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  • Corporate Citizenship launches partnership with V+O Communications in SE Europe

    added on April 1, 2011 by Corporate Citizenship

    Corporate Citizenship will be partnering with V+O Communications in Athens, Greece to host an event on “The journey from Philanthropy to Sustainability”.
    Society’s growing shift to sustainability is leading companies to align business strategy with sustainability policy and practices.   Gradually successful companies will have to play an increasingly active role in the sustainability agenda and make [...]

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