Corporate Citizenship

As if Apple weren’t in enough trouble with a number of worker suicides on its hands in its Chinese supplier factory Foxconn… Shanghai papers this morning report concerns from female customers in its flagship store who are attracting leery stares from men at the bottom of its transparent spiral stairs, looking up their skirts. We’re [...]

Webinar:  Corporate Responsibility Reporting – A journey, not a destination 
According to a recent United Nations study of global CEOs, 93% believe that sustainability issues will be critical to the future success of their business. Additionally, 73% indicate that “brand, trust and reputation” are one of the top three factors driving them to take action on [...]

Corporate Citizenship congratulates Unilever for winning the coveted ‘company of the year’ accolade at Monday’s Business in the Community awards. The global company is stepping up its longstanding commitment to responsible business practices, with brands such as Lipton/PG Tips, Dove, Ben& Jerry’s, Hellmann’s and Knorr engaging with their consumers on sustainability issues. Corporate Citizenship has [...]

Monsoon season in Mumbai, wellies or plastic shoes the order of the day. Staying in the ITC Maratha Hotel where bedside reading is, I kid you not, their Sustainability Report 2009!  At 100 pages it’s a hefty read, GR3 compliant, with claims to be ‘the only company in the world to have become carbon positive, [...]

Corporate Citizenship’s Peter Truesdale will be hosting a free webinar on Assurance. To register, please click on the following link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/253395025
Date: Wednesday 7th July 2010
Time: 14:00 – 15:00 (UK time)

Corporate Citizenship’s co-chair Amanda Jordan features in the recently published “Building Stronger Communities – Business and the third sector: Innovation in tough times”.
Businesses, the government and third sector need to develop stronger and more innovative partnerships to provide real and practical help for communities at risk of fracture due to the recession, a report published [...]

The climate change debate is hotting up.  (Sorry, couldn’t resist that one).  At the recent G8 summit leaders committed to an 80% cut in carbon emissions by 2050.  Forget the caveats about which countries have or haven’t agreed to do what by when, the increasing clarity about what the target is has big implications for [...]

Yes, my fellow judges and I have deliberated, and our verdict on the best corporate reporting websites has just gone live in this month’s IR Magazine, a leading investor relations publication.
Given a cross section of international reports, our job was to assess how effectively they told their investment story. Imagine my excitement! This of all [...]

In recent months, companies operating in the financial services sector in the City of London have experienced unparalleled economic challenges. In the midst of a recession, as companies come under increasing pressure on costs, the temptation might be to reduce corporate contributions to local communities.
However, to cut back on this important aspect of corporate responsibility [...]

Corporate Citizenship’s Jen Peckman will be chairing the Community Engagement session at ASA’s forthcoming Sustainability Stakeholder Engagement event to be held in New York, 14-15 September 2009.
For more information and to register, click here