PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China to promote sustainable agriculture projects and accelerate the development of the Chinese countryside. As part…
Siemens AG, Europe's largest engineering company, yesterday said that it would cease building nuclear power plants globally and focus on renewable energy after the German government decided to phase out nuclear power by 2022. After the Fukushima nuclear power plant…
Hyundai Motor Company (HMC), world’s fourth largest automobile manufacturer, has donated two units of hi-tech ultra modern mobile clinics to two of Nigeria’s foremost health institutions, the Abuja National Hospital and University of Abuja Teaching Hospital. Receiving the donations on…
Tesco, BT and Unilever are among the first companies to sign up to use the 'Think, Act, Report' framework (11-page, 166KB PDF), which aims to "improve transparency" on equality issues in the private and voluntary sectors. The framework was developed…
Stung by concerns that using Google is bad for the planet, the Internet search giant has revealed exactly how much electricity the company uses and how much greenhouse gases it produces in an effort to show its business model is…
Swedish furniture giant's pledge to Dadaab refugee camp is praiseworthy - but the company should seek to provide regional employment as well as emergency food supplies. As Ikea makes a historic pledge to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, the…
Commodities trader Glencore will profess its support for a global standard on transparency in natural resources, the Daily Mail can reveal, amid a charm offensive designed to clean up its image. Glencore representatives are flying to Norway to meet figures…
The second story that confirms my argument was a story from SIEMENS, a gigantic conglomerate from Germany. After a series of interview with their CSR team in Thailand, I have noticed similar pattern to the previous case. Although they do…
Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), the world’s largest restaurant company and parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, announced today that it is directing the first $1 million from its World Hunger Relief global effort to provide food to families…
A Vietnamese labour group reports that low wages and inhumane treatment have lead 90,000 workers to strike at the Pou Yuen adidas suppler in Ho Chi Minh City. According to the Committee to Protect Vietnamese Workers, the six day strike…
