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Toyota Cyprus: Prius Hybrid Routes programme raises environmental awareness
Toyota Cyprus has launched a “Prius Hybrid Routes” programme to raise public awareness regarding environmental issues, using hybrid technology as a starting point, while providing participants the chance to live daily with this technology, appreciating its advantages. At the same time, Toyota Cyprus decided to team up with Terra Cypria, an NGO whose aim is to present to Cypriot society the importance of the environment and sustainable development through education, as well as through the raising of awareness in people and institutions whose decisions affect the quality of life of everyone else… Read more
27 September 2010
Tetra Pak extends FSCTM-labelled beverage cartons to customers in Sweden, Denmark and Belgium
Tetra Pak has announced that the company plans to offer beverage cartons bearing the label of the Forest Stewardship CouncilTM (FSC) to customers in Sweden, Denmark and Belgium. Tetra Pak is aiming to supply Swedish customers with about 600 million and Danish customers with 270 million FSC-labelled packages in 2010. In Belgium, starting with retailer Colruyt, the company plans to offer 700 million FSC-labelled packages. And in Italy, starting this month, the farmers' cooperative Valfrutta, will packs its smoothies and nectars in FSC-labelled Tetra Brik® Aseptic packages in a variety of sizes… Read more
24 September 2010
Nestlé backs Millennium Villages Project with USD 400,000 boost
Nestlé pledges USD 400,000 (over CHF 397,000) to support food and nutrition initiatives as part of the Millennium Villages Project. The two-year funding boost aims to advance progress in eliminating hunger, increase food security, and achieve the nutrition-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the 14 Millennium Villages across ten countries in Africa. The pledge was announced as world leaders met at the three-day United Nations (UN) Summit from September 20-22 in New York, to assess and accelerate progress towards the 2015 MDGs… Read more
24 September 2010
Cargill and WFP successfully conclude three-year nutrition and health partnership benefitting 37,000 children in Indonesia
Cargill has announced the successful completion of the "Smart Schools Make Smart Kids" programme, a three-year partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) initiated in 2007 to improve the health, nutritional levels and education of elementary school-age children in Sampang, Madura. Cargill had funded the program with US$ 3 million (IDR 27 billion). Separately, WFP has provided more than US$8 million (IDR 72 billion) assistance in Madura since 2005 through various projects such as school meals, nutrition programmes, food for work and community development activities… Read more
24 September 2010
BT hosts International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
On September 23rd, the International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (IGLCC) gathered together international leaders in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transexual (LGBT) inclusion and diversity to share their expertise and experiences, and to offer insight into today's best LGBT employment practice and policies in place at major international corporations. The event was the first seminar of its kind organised by the IGLCC and hosted and sponsored by BT, the winner of the 2009 Business Equality Index… Read more
24 September 2010
Hitachi Ltd publishes its Group Corporate Sustainability Report 2010
Global company Hitachi has issued its Corporate Sustainability Report 2010 with three versions to suit different readers. The Digest version communicates the main material issues while the Environmental Sustainability Report is edited for environmental specialists. The full version contains both reports and has been published on the Hitachi website.A major highlight of the 2010 report is the company's contribution to solving fundamental global issues through its social innovation businesses which benefit global society and help towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals… Read more
24 September 2010
SAP(R) Carbon Impact OnDemand goes global
SAP AG has introduced an enhanced version of the SAP® Carbon Impact OnDemand solution to help companies reduce their energy and carbon footprint across their entire operations and product supply chains. Designed for the global economy, SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand 5.0 is designed to help companies report, analyze and reduce their worldwide energy and greenhouse gas emissions. Read more (Source: SAP/CSRwire)
24 September 2010
ORSE report: Fathers in Advertising - An Analysis of Stereotypes at Work
In recent years, companies have realized that equal employment processes cannot move forward without involving men in these issues or without challenging the cultural stereotypes that perpetuate the model of "men as breadwinners" who are devoted to their work and woman as being in charge of home and family life. These stereotypes can be encountered in advertising, too.Therefore, ORSE, with the assistance of BETC Euro RSCG communications agency and Eric Macé, a specialist in media culture and gender, built and analysed a corpus of 43 television and print advertisements by conducting a search within advertising archives over the period 2002 to 2009 using key words pertaining to fatherhood… Read more
23 September 2010
Business leaders help Britain's most deprived to get back to work
On September 21st, business leaders from some of Britain's top companies came face-to-face with those who face multiple barriers to work and explored practical solutions for them to find work tomorrow. The visit was organised as part of The Prince's Seeing is Believing programme run by Business in the Community. It highlighted the crucial role that business can play in giving the homeless and unemployed the self esteem and support to get their lives back on track.The delegation was led by Ruby McGregor-Smith, CEO of Britain's leading outsourcing company MITIE, and included senior directors from companies such as Deloitte, Michael Page and Land Securities… Read more
23 September 2010
Forética and SGS sign cooperation agreement to introduce SGE 21 standard in Latin America
Forética and SGS, global certification company, have signed a cooperation agreement which allows organisations in 17 Latin American countries to obtain certification for Forética's SGE 21 Standard (Sistema de Gestión Ética y Socialmente Responsable SGE 21, in Spanish). "After ten years of experience and over 80 companies who have implemented the standard in the European context, in cooperation with SGS we have detected the demand and interest in the Latin American market to advance towards the use of integral and rigorous CSR management tools", says German Granda, General Manager of Forética… Read more
23 September 2010
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