News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in holding companies & conglomerates.
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03-05-02
Fleetguard Emission Solutions, a unit of Fleetguard Inc., and 3M Automotive, today announced a joint development agreement (JDA) to design and develop advanced exhaust emission control technologies geared to meet the ever-increasing demands of the diesel emission marketplace...
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11-06-01
UPS (NYSE: UPS) today unveiled plans to complete testing of the industry's first hybrid electric delivery vehicle.
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10-16-01
More than 550 employees from General Electric (GE) businesses in Kansas City will participate in GE's Day of Caring on Thursday, October 18. A company-wide initiative, GE's Day of Caring involves GE businesses around the world joining together to serve their respective commu...
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10-02-00
For the second consecutive year, UPS has been named among America’s Top 16 Corporations for Women Business Enterprises (WBEs) by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s premiere third-party certification entity for businesses owned and operated...
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09-07-00
Thanks to more than 600 GE Lighting
employee volunteers, the number of inner-city youngsters who will next summer
be able to attend Camp Mueller -- a 270-acre camp in Peninsula, Ohio -- will
more than quadruple.
In a highly-planned-and-prepared on...
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07-17-00
3M today announced the company is donating $1 million to middle and high schools through its "3M Salute to Schools" program, which provides much-needed security technology that helps libraries with limited resources reduce the loss of valuable materials.
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06-26-00
In today’s time-starved environment, people who volunteer for a charitable organization want their time used effectively and efficiently. The UPS Foundation is taking another step to help make that experience more commonplace by tripling its investment in the Volunteer Impac...
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05-30-00
GE Power Systems' Schenectady
facility has received the federal Occupational Safety and Health
Administration's (OSHA) highest recognition for safety and health management,
the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star status.
GE Schenectady is one ...
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05-30-00
The 3M Foundation Board of Directors approved over $7.5 million for educational institutions and programs throughout the country and over $1.7 million to support arts organizations and initiatives which enhance the quality of life in 3M communities.
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05-23-00
General Electric Appliances (GE)
President and CEO Larry Johnston will sign an historic energy efficiency and
water savings agreement in Washington, D.C. today with environmental groups,
energy efficiency advocates, utilities, and state governments and othe...