{"id":2229,"date":"2007-12-14T17:36:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T16:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/14\/brandwatch-%e2%80%93-december-2007-better-welfare\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T16:43:35","slug":"brandwatch-december-2007-better-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/12\/14\/brandwatch-december-2007-better-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"BrandWatch \u2014 December 2007: Better welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/content.asp?ContentID=5580\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"071106_retailreport071.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/071106_retailreport071.jpg\" title=\"071106_retailreport071.jpg\" alt=\"071106_retailreport071.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Clothes chain <strong>Gap<\/strong> is planning to label its clothes \u201csweatshop free\u201d. Following claims that the company has sold clothes made in factories that use child labour, the firm met anti-sweatshop charity Global March Against Child Labour to discuss ideas such as allowing customers to track where their clothes were made online. More good news for <strong>Marks &amp; Spencer<\/strong> and their reputation as a flag flyer for ethical retailers from reputation research firm Covalence\u2019s annual retail industry report. This tracks how the ethical efforts of supermarkets are perceived by non-governmental organisations, the media and other groups, and found M&amp;S ahead of its rivals. The world\u2019s largest retailer, <strong>Wal-Mart<\/strong>, is still playing catch-up, although the study found a growing feeling that the company was making good progress towards being more responsible. Image source: Covalence. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/content.asp?ContentID=5580\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Publication: Covalence in the News <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: Global <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">| Company: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\">Wal-Mart, Marks &amp; Spencer, Gap Inc.<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span>  Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/content.asp?ContentID=5580\" target=\"_blank\">Ethical Corporation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clothes chain Gap is planning to label its clothes \u201csweatshop free\u201d. Following claims that the company has sold clothes made in factories that use child labour, the firm met anti-sweatshop charity Global March Against Child Labour to discuss ideas such as allowing customers to track where their clothes were made online. More good news for&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":[149,55,19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-gap-inc","tag-marks-spencer","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}