{"id":2092,"date":"2007-11-06T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T09:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/06\/marks-spencer-and-wal-mart-drive-the-retail-industry%e2%80%99s-eco-agenda-covalence-retail-industry-report-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T13:01:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T12:01:21","slug":"marks-spencer-and-wal-mart-drive-the-retail-industrys-eco-agenda-covalence-retail-industry-report-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/11\/06\/marks-spencer-and-wal-mart-drive-the-retail-industrys-eco-agenda-covalence-retail-industry-report-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks &#038; Spencer and Wal-Mart Drive the Retail Industry\u2019s Eco-Agenda &#8211; Covalence Retail Industry Report 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/PressRelease_Covalence_Retail_Industry_Report2007_06.11.2007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"071106_retailreport073.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/071106_retailreport073.jpg\" title=\"071106_retailreport073.jpg\" alt=\"071106_retailreport073.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Marks &amp; Spencer and Wal-Mart drive the ethical agenda of Retailers, which has been dominated by environmental issues in 2006-2007, states a report released by Geneva-based ethical reputation research firm Covalence, Covalence Retail Industry Report 2007. Marks &amp; Spencer is a proactive leader: it appears in many positive news items and maintains a remarkably low level of demands (negative news items). Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world, is more of a reactive leader: having been a central target of critical campaigns for many years, in 2006 the company has started an impressive move towards Corporate Social Responsibility (<\/span><st1:stockticker><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">CSR<\/span><\/st1:stockticker><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">), as the EthicalQuote reputation curve shows. From the bottom (Wal-Mart) and from the top (Marks &amp; Spencer) of the ranking, the two companies are setting the pace to the whole industry. Those which are neither proactive nor reactive will be left behind as the industry continues to move forward. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/PressRelease_Covalence_Retail_Industry_Report2007_06.11.2007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p><\/o:p>Publication: Covalence Press Release | Country: Global | Company: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Aeon, Bed Bath &amp; Beyond, Best Buy, Cardinal Health, Carrefour, Coles Myer, Costco Wholesale, CVS Corp, eBay, Gap Inc, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Hennes &amp; Mauritz, Home Depot, Inditex SA, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Kingfisher, Kohl s Corp, Limited Brands, Lowe s Cos, Marks &amp; Spencer, McKesson, PPR, Sears, Target Corp, Tesco, TJX Companies, Walgreen, Wal-Mart, Wesfarmers<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">| <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/PressRelease_Covalence_Retail_Industry_Report2007_06.11.2007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Covalence<\/a> <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marks &amp; Spencer and Wal-Mart drive the ethical agenda of Retailers, which has been dominated by environmental issues in 2006-2007, states a report released by Geneva-based ethical reputation research firm Covalence, Covalence Retail Industry Report 2007. Marks &amp; Spencer is a proactive leader: it appears in many positive news items and maintains a remarkably low&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71,70,69,68,67,63,170,169,168,149,53,115,75,90,89,88,84,55,54,120,118,12,110,135,19,171,172],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-aeon","tag-bed-bath-beyond","tag-best-buy","tag-cardinal-health","tag-carrefour","tag-coles-myer","tag-costco-wholesale","tag-cvs-corp","tag-ebay","tag-gap-inc","tag-hm","tag-home-depot","tag-inditex","tag-kingfisher","tag-kohl-s-corp","tag-limited-brands","tag-lowe-s-cos","tag-marks-spencer","tag-mckesson","tag-ppr","tag-sears","tag-target-corp","tag-tesco","tag-tjx","tag-wal-mart","tag-walgreen","tag-wesfarmers","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}