Employee Engagement
Helping organizations to understand, reflect and meet the stakeholder interests of their workforces.
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05-20-10
AccountAbility Appoints Sunil A Misser as Chief Executive Officer
AccountAbility, the global corporate responsibility (CR) research and advisory firm headquartered in New York and London, has appointed Sunil A. Misser as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr Misser is currently Chairman of AccountAbility, and has led its Advis...
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05-20-10
StakeWare Wins "The Big Five Competition" Award from GRI and ING
StakeWare, a pioneer of on-demand sustainability and stakeholder management software, today announced that the Global Reporting Initiative and ING, a sponsor of the 2010 Amsterdam Global Conference on Sus...
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05-20-10
ThinkSocial & PepsiCo Invite Innovative Companies and Consumers to "Join the #Promise"
ThinkSocial at the Paley Center for Media, in conjunction with PepsiCo, is thrilled to announce the #Promise, an initiative that explores how social and mobile media are empowering corporate citizenship and creating social and environmental change. To debut the #Promise, Thi...
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05-20-10
Abbott Receives FDA Approval for First Fully Automated Blood Test for "Kissing Bug" Disease
Abbott received Biologic License Application (BLA) approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the ABBOTT PRISM Chagas test. The test is a fully automated blood screening assay that can detect antibodies to Trypansoma cruzi (T. cruzi
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05-19-10
Companies Fail to Engage Consumers on Environmental and Social Issues
Eighty-four percent of Americans believe their ideas can help companies create products and services that are a win for consumers, business and society; yet, only half (53%) feel companies are effectively encouraging them to speak up on corporate social and environmental pra...
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05-19-10
SoFi first verified solution by GRI
The GRI program for certifying software and digital tools started in the beginning of 2010 and aims to ensure the correct usage of GRI content, such as the GRI Sustainability Reporting ...
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05-19-10
World Cocoa Foundation Announces New Company Members and New Projects
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) today welcomed five new company members to the foundation and announced the start of three new projects in Côte d'Ivoire, the world's largest cocoa-producing country. The announcements were made during the welcoming remarks of WCF's 17th Part...
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05-19-10
World Cocoa Foundation Holds 17th Partnership Meeting on Cocoa Sustainability
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) today began its 17th Partnership Meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The two-day meeting on cocoa sustainability, held in association with the Rabobank Foundation and Rabobank International, is attended by over 200 representatives from the c...
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05-18-10
IGNIA Leads US$6.5 Million Investment in Chiapas Farms, a Leading Mexican Exporter of Fruits and Vegetables
/PRNewswire/ - IGNIA Fund I, LP, the first impact investing fund in Latin America, announced today an investment of US$5 million in Chiapas Organic Holdings, Inc. ("Chiapas Farms"), a leading Mexican producer and trader of export-grade fruits and vegetables. This investment ...
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05-18-10
Sustainability communication at the point of purchase - volume increases, practices mature
Stratos Inc. and Industry Canada have published a practical tool to help retailers and producers of consumer products better understand, plan for, and capitalize on sustainability communication at point of purchase. "Green Marketing Gets Real" provides practical advice ...
