News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the consumer services industry.
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12-01-09
What: The Coca-Cola Company will announce a significant new commitment to reduce direct greenhouse gas emissions. Greenpeace has urged Coca-Cola to expand its climate commitments and supports this announcement as a positive example of business investment in ...
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11-30-09
On Friday, 27th November, 2009 Rt Hon David Lammy, MP for Tottenham and Minister of State for Higher Education and Intellectual Property, visited the Bruce Grove Youth Centre with a very special guest - Ghanaian musician Tinny, star of the recent Fairtrade Cadbury Dairy Milk...
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11-19-09
Just nine months after launching an industry-leading ingredient communication website, SC Johnson today announced it has already completed the task of populating the U.S. site with more than 200 products and their ingredients. The site,
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11-16-09
The Coca-Cola Company announced today that beverages in its innovative PlantBottle™ packaging are beginning to arrive on store shelves in select markets throughout the world, initiating the Company's journey toward a goal of producing 2 billion of the special PET plastic bot...
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11-12-09
Nike and OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital are uniting for the sixth year to create the Doernbecher Freestyle footwear collection, which pairs young patients with Nike designers to raise money for Oregon's premier children's hospital. The young Doernbecher patients work a...
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11-12-09
In its continuing initiatives around Doing What's Right, SC Johnson, A Family Company, recently announced its first commitment as part of its involvement in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). Founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2005, CGI brings world leaders from a...
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11-12-09
Looking to do some good? One good deed might be as close as your computer keyboard. SC Johnson, maker of well-known brands including Glade®, OFF!®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Ziploc® and Windex®, has launched a blog to collect environmental tips and inspire dialogue. For each tip s...
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11-11-09
About a quarter of American adults (24 percent) say they have eaten less this year to ensure their children have enough food, a startling expression of parents' caring for their children that also sheds light on a the problem of hunger in America. Almost one in 10 (8 percent...
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11-06-09
Cadbury Canada announced this week the delivery of 5,000 bikes to children in Ghana, Africa as part of its innovative consumer promotion called The Bicycle Factory. The bikes will reach more than 200 communities in central and southern Ghana and will provide access to educa...
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11-05-09
This weekend Nike (NYSE:NKE) will debut the Nike N7 Collection, a select range of performance footwear designed with the environment and the future of Native American communities in mind. The N7 Collection will be sold exclusively through 33 Nike Factory Stores in the U.S. a...