Consumer Services

AUSTIN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2007--Hormel Foods Corporation, (NYSE:HRL), one of the nation's largest manufacturers and marketers of consumer-branded meat and food products, published its first citizenship overview today, available in HTML or PDF format at www.horm...

NEW YORK, NY - December 28, 2006 - On 1 January 2007, the Global Compact Office will remove an additional 203 companies from its list of participants for failure to meet consecutive Communication on Progress (COP) deadlines. To ensure the quality of the initiative, all compa...

Portland, OR - December 26, 2006 - The third annual Doernbecher Freestyle project reunites Nike and Portland, Oregon-based Doernbecher Children's Hospital in a fund-raising campaign that allows creative young patients the opportunity to design Nike footwear. The patients, wh...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2006--The Herbalife Family Foundation (HFF), a private, non-profit organization, announced the establishment of a Casa Herbalife program at Tokyo's Caritas Garden Children's Home to improve the foster home's ability to provide nutrit...

NEW YORK, November 20, 2006 - The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Global Compact Office. The purpose of this Memorandum is to encourage cooperation and mutual support between ISO and the Gl...

BEAVERTON, OR - November 20, 2006 - NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) today announced that the company is ceasing orders with its hand-stitched soccer ball supplier, Saga Sports, based in Sialkot, Pakistan, due to the contract factory's failure to correct significant labor compl...

(Zürich, 17 November 2006) - The Guilé Foundation, in association with the United Nations Global Compact and De Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co., today launched the Guilé European Engagement Fund, the first fund dedicated to the UN Global Compact and its mission of advancin...

(New York) - The Global Compact presents Issue 4, 2006 of the Compact Quarterly, a publication featuring articles, interviews and news on corporate responsibility.

This issue of the Compact Quarterly spotlights the role that corporate respons...

BEAVERTON, OR - Nike's commitment to industry-leading transparency in its social responsibility reporting has led to the company being named the top U.S. company and one of the world's top 10 in the current SustainAbility Global Reporters Program ranking released today.

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