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…
Des personnes bloquent l’accès à la zone minière de Mandena. Elles ne sont pas satisfaites de la solution proposée par QMM. Les habitants du fokontany d’Amparihy ont de nouveau érigé un barrage sur la route de Mandena. C’est le deuxième…
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,…
Le Crédit Agricole, qui a racheté le Crédit Lyonnais en 2003, a versé la somme de 4 milliards de Francs Cfa pour le changement de nom, à verser aux employés. Les dirigeants expatriés du tout nouveau Crédit Agricole- Scb, se…
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…
Cette activité lucrative et en marge de la loi explique la course au coltan à laquelle se livrent, des décennies durant, les multinationales et les pays voisins, allant jusqu’à déstabiliser durablement la RDC dans sa partie orientale. Un rapport du…
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…
