Wal-Mart Stores Inc's new leadership (WMT.N) plans to expand efforts to reduce waste, use renewable energy and push suppliers to clean up their act, the company's incoming chief executive officer said on Monday. "We want to accelerate our efforts in…
Press Release | Geneva (Switzerland), 20 January 2009 Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its annual ethical ranking covering an enlarged universe of 541 multinationals within 18 sectors and based on a renovated calculation methodology combining popularity and diversified performance. The…
A Detroit, le Salon de l'automobile, qui a ouvert ses portes à la presse dimanche 11 janvier, fait grise mine. Oubliés les soirées paillettes, le champagne et les mises en scène hollywoodiennes... Crise économique oblige, les constructeurs ont serré les…
Samsung has rolled out a corporate social responsibility campaign titled Timecheck showcasing ways the electronic giant can help social programmes and products globally. The campaign leads with an ad featuring a well-known korean pianist, Kim Yeji, who is able to…
Over the past few weeks, a series of fascinating full-page ads from IBM Corp. got the better of me. The company launched a series of "Smarter Planet" ads in November, running Mondays in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,…
Local companies, with the exception of a few, appear to be limiting or downsizing their spending on charitable gifts and projects in response to harsh economic times. No estimate of the size of corporate philanthropy is available, but some companies…
According to U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, the pharmaceutical company Wyeth paid to have positive articles written about their drugs in medical journals. Sen. Grassley is a Republican from Iowa and has been probing into this case for quite some time…
Laggards of the past often turn into leaders of the present. The case of Wal-Mart perfectly illustrates this paradoxical tendency, states a report published today by Geneva-based ethical reputation research firm Covalence — Covalence Retail Industry Report 2008. A year…
Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) is today announcing that its Z Zurich Foundation (Foundation) has established 5-year partnerships with three globally active Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) to address global, social and environmental challenges that are linked with Zurich’s business activities. The…
When the full scope and horror of the Nazi wartime atrocities began to emerge after World War II, many member states of the newly formed United Nations (UN) began calling for an international law outlining and protecting the fundamental rights…
