News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in holding companies & conglomerates.
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07-25-11
GE today released its seventh annual Citizenship Report, entitled Sustainable Growth, at www.gecitizenship.com/2010report/.
The report covers GE’s worldwide operations for the 2010 fiscal year and is structured around...
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07-25-11
GE today released its seventh annual Citizenship Report, entitled Sustainable Growth. The report covers GE's worldwide operations for the 2010 fiscal year and is structured around discussions of GE's long-term value creation in addressing the world's most pressing problems.
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07-14-11
Votorantim Industrial (VID) is part of Votorantim Participações (VPAR or Votorantim), the business of which is organized in three segments: Industrial, Finance, and New Businesses
With headquarters in Brazil, its global operations focus on operations in base sectors of the economy: ceme...
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07-13-11
The Dave Matthews Band, a longtime leader in "greening" initiatives, is working with UPS (NYSE:UPS) to help create a more sustainable concert tour this summer.
"We're joining the band to move the music in a sustainable way," said Ron Rogowski, U...
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05-24-11
UPS (NYSE:UPS) and Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) today announced a groundbreaking, multi-year sponsorship alliance aimed at promoting UPS's environmentally responsible logistics solutions to millions of music fans across North America as well as recording artists comm...
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05-06-11
UPS (NYSE:UPS) has activated its newly-created Logistics Action Teams (LAT) to support the American Red Cross's relief efforts for victims of the recent tornadoes in the southeastern United States.
Additionally, the company pledged an addition...
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04-07-11
In its Annual Report 2010 Metso addresses sustainability issues that are essential in terms of strategy, such as global presence, environmental solutions, Metso people and cooperation with various stakeholders. The printed report is supp...
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04-01-11
Speaking to a crowd of more than 300 employees and representatives of major American companies at the UPS (NYSE: UPS) facility here, President Barack Obama praised efforts to reduce the environmental impact of corporate trucking fleets, noting the potential of alternative fu...
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03-16-11
Scott Wicker, UPS's vice president of corporate plant engineering, has been named the company's first Chief Sustainability Officer.
"The creation of the new post recognizes the expanding scope of UPS's sustainability actions, as well as its str...
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03-04-11
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today was rated the "World's Most Admired" company in its industry in an annual survey conducted by FORTUNE magazine.
UPS posted an industry score of 7.42 on the magazine's 10-point scale, a substantial margin over the 2nd place s...