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)

I saw a poster ad this weekend for Tesco mobiles – something along the lines of “A new phone every year – long live the 12-month contract”…
Once I’d got past my surprise that Tesco was now selling phones as well, I couldn’t stop thinking about the implications of the ad… Here was Tesco, encouraging us [...]

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Education has long been an area of strategic community investment for many leading companies and flicking through the CSR reports of the FTSE 100 shows that most firms engage in one way or another with the education agenda. Indeed, this is borne out by our latest London Benchmarking Group (www.lbg-online.net/) data, which shows that of every [...]

It is widely accepted that the causes of climate change are complex and diverse. At the same time, it seems that the mechanisms by which companies are held to account for their contribution to global warming are also proliferating. Alongside green taxes, carbon trading schemes and environmental legislation, business is now facing increasing pressure from [...]