Starbucks, multinationale américaine et principale acheteur du café éthiopien, refuse de reconnaà®tre le droit pour l’Ethiopie de disposer de la propriété légale de ses principaux noms de café : Harar, Yirgacheffe et Sidamo et pourtant cette reconnaissance de licence pourrait…
Big business is doing its bit to reduce water consumption, according to the latest figures from the Queensland Water Commission. (...) Ms Bligh and Premier Peter Beattie toured the Coca Cola Amatil plant at Richlands this morning to inspect some…
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner for the White House, on Sunday said she had raised $26m since she entered the race — almost twice her campaign’s target and more than three times the record for the first quarter of the…
Franck Riboud is a romantic at heart. The chairman of French food multinational Danone is also an astute businessman with a particular nose for marketing. Yet he seems to be managing to combine his passionate commitment for social responsibility with…
ABN Amro has launched an equity index tracking firms that address climate change and other environmental issues. Paul Thind, a London-based executive director at ABN AMRO, and the index developer, said: "This… benchmark reference instrument can be used both to…
When many students stop by Starbucks on the way to class to pick up their daily double shots, they may not realize the signs they see around the store for different types of coffees are the focus of a rift…
UBS AG today announced that it has launched the KLD Dividend Achievers Social Investing Series 2007A, a unique unit investment trust ("UIT") designed to meet the needs of UBS Wealth Management US clients who are seeking socially responsible investments with…
