{"id":2913,"date":"2008-12-11T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/11\/former-laggard-wal-mart-turns-into-ethical-leader-covalence-retail-industry-report-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:32:57","slug":"former-laggard-wal-mart-turns-into-ethical-leader-covalence-retail-industry-report-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/12\/11\/former-laggard-wal-mart-turns-into-ethical-leader-covalence-retail-industry-report-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Laggard Wal-Mart Turns into Ethical Leader – Covalence Retail Industry Report 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"081211_retailreport.jpg\"<\/a>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 \u2014 Covalence Retail Industry Report 2008. A year ago Wal-Mart was still last in Covalence EthicalQuote ranking calculated for 27 companies in the Retail industry. Today it has jumped up to the third rank, behind Marks & Spencer and Home Depot, showing the best progression over last year, while PPR, Bed, Bath & Beyond, and TJX are last. The US retailer is also climbing high in Covalence cross sectors ranking. > Co<\/a><\/span>ntinue<\/a>.<\/span>
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More information on Covalence Retail Industry Report 2008:<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Full Press Release<\/span><\/a>
\n> Extract: Covalence Retail Industry Report 2008<\/span><\/a><\/o:p>
\n> <\/span>Offer & Order form: Covalence Retail Industry Report 2008<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/o:p>
\n> <\/span>Public version of EthicalQuote<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Publication: Covalence Press Release | Region: Global | <\/span>Company: Aeon Co, Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy Co, Cardinal Health, Carrefour SA, Coles Myer, Costco Wholesale, CVS Caremark Corp, eBay Inc, Gap Inc, Hennes & Mauritz, Home Depot, Inditex SA, Kingfisher, Kohl s Corp, Limited Brands, Lowe s Cos, Marks & Spencer, McKesson, PPR, Sears, Target Corp, Tesco PLC, TJX Companies, Walgreen, Wal-Mart Stores, Wesfarmers<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>| Source: Covalence<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u2014 Covalence Retail Industry Report 2008. A year ago Wal-Mart was still last in Covalence EthicalQuote ranking calculated for 27 companies in the…<\/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":[2,1],"tags":[67,168,149,53,115,75,90,55,120,118,110,19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-news","tag-carrefour","tag-ebay","tag-gap-inc","tag-hm","tag-home-depot","tag-inditex","tag-kingfisher","tag-marks-spencer","tag-ppr","tag-sears","tag-tesco","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","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=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}