Sustainability

SAN FRANSICO, California - Co-founder of Business 2.0 magazine, Executive Editor of Sojourners magazine and professor of social ethics and religion at the University of San Francisco, David Batstone, has signed his first trade book deal to Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Company. Senio...

CHENNAI, India - David Friedman, MD and President of Ford India and Vinay Piparsania, VP - External Affairs handed over the company's first corporate assessment report titled "Moving Forward" to Selvi Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international sustainability reporting institution that was formally inaugurated at a United Nations ceremony on 4 April 2002, has announced that its permanent Secretariat headquarters will be opened later th...

Portland, ME - IdealsWork.com (www.idealswork.com), a new online shopping site that allows consumers to weigh the social responsibility of companies and brands before making their purchasing decisions, commenced operations last week and is earning rave reviews from users mak...

NEW YORK, New York - Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) today announced it has been named among the top ten companies by Minneapolis-based Business Ethics magazine in its third annual "100 Best Corporate Citizens" listing. The rankings are based on a qualitative measure of corp...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota - Socially responsible behavior pays off on the bottom line. That’s the conclusion of new research based on Business Ethics’ 100 Best Corporate Citizens list, which shows the financial performance of these companies was "significantly better" than othe...

CINCINNATI, Ohio - Chiquita Brands International, Inc. announced today that it has emerged from its Pre-Arranged Chapter 11 restructuring as a healthy company with a solid financial structure. Today, the Company’s Plan of Reorganization went into effect, only 111 days after ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Molecular Staging Inc. (MSI) today announced the publication of a paper in today's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) that describes a method for generating millions of DNA copies from just a few...

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report.

"Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's does business," said Jack M. Greenberg,...

Brattleboro, VT - CSRwire, the corporate social responsibility newswire service, today introduced a non-financial report service to further aid companies in communicating their environmental and social performance.

This new web-based se...