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A new approach means companies helping to train workers for suppliers and fostering better labour practices collaboratively...
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Oxfam America has released a Poverty Footprint Study with The Coca-Cola Company and its local bottler SABMiller aimed at bringing these issues to the fore. The report offers a balanced snapshot of how the Coca-Cola/SABMiller system – bottler, suppliers, and distributors – affects poverty in two developing countries – El Salvador and Zambia.
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Making operations sustainable is just another lens for creating a better company. The motivation should not only come from regulators but should also from the desire to make your company as efficient, productive, profitable, ethical, and admirable as it can be. Companies who are more efficient on a carbon basis are also more efficient on an economic basis as well. (CIO Central: Improving Profits through Sustainability http://bit.ly/gp9Wgj)
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Sourcing and transporting goods can be the most overlooked—and inefficient—parts of how a business is structured. Here's how to examine and improve the environmental, economic, and social impact of your supply chain.
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More than half of large businesses and a quarter of suppliers have seen cost savings as a result of carbon management within procurement, according to a report published by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
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What happens when you put executives from Walmart and Patagonia in a room? this isn’t the start of a bad joke–it’s how the Sustainable Apparel Coalition was born. The seeds...
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In recent years, the growth of both the market for and production of portable music players and video game consoles has been dramatic. Multimedia phones with music players and game consoles are becoming commonplace among teenagers and adults in wealthy societies. Most game consoles and portable music players as well as one of every two mobile phones are manufactured in China. Many workers in China’s electronics sector are denied many of their basic rights.
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the following is a sponsored post from Sustainable Business Forum) Today most companies claim to care about workplace safety, ...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected an attempt by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to omit a shareholder resolution from the five New York City pension funds relating to sustainability reporting in its supply chain.....
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April 1, 2011 - Many companies are taking the wrong approach to managing their supply chains, according to a new research study conducted by the Network for Business Sustainability, an independent research group based at the Richard Ivey School of
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Marketing WeekCoke and Unilever call for collaboration over sustainabilityMarketing WeekSpeaking at an event hosted by ...
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Sprint Nextel is now the first wireless carrier to complete and publicly release a comprehensive Scope 3 supply-chain assessment. As you may recall,
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McDonald’s Corporation is stepping up its commitment to a sustainable supply chain. Last week, the company announced a new Sustainable Land Management
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Supply chains can prove to be the weak spot for big brand companies like Apple but developing sustainable procurement practices can improve the process
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Sprint Nextel should consider setting carbon reduction targets for suppliers, and possibly retender contracts with the worst performers, according to a report produced for the company by consultants Trucost.
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Three of the world's largest food producers have joined forces in a $20m sustainable sourcing cocoa deal.
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