Manufacturing

Underscoring the role of business in addressing global threats - from climate change to widespread poverty or humanitarian emergencies - a group of chief executives joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Davos/Switzerland today for the launch of Global Compact LEAD - a n...

At the World Economic Forum, currently taking place in Davos, a group of leading CEO’s have introduced the so-called Workplace Wellness Alliance. This consortium of corporations including Novo Nordisk, Nestlé, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, BT and others, have partnered up...

Procter & Gamble [NYSE: PG] today announces expansion of its renewable energy portfolio by unveiling a wind turbine at P&G's pet care plant in Coevorden, Netherlands and extending its commitment to solar energy with the installation of solar panels at its Beauty &...

/PRNewswire/ - On the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, Tide Loads of Hope is releasing a short documentary film that shares stories of Hope, providing a glimpse into...

Partners In Health (PIH) and Abbott and its philanthropic foundation, the Abbott Fund, today announced a partnership to empower Haitians to create local solutions to the longstanding problem of severe malnutrition in Haiti. Together, PIH and Abbott plan to build a nutritiona...

Fibria Celulose, the world’s leading producer of market pulp, has issued its first Sustainability Report, describing the company’s achievements and challenges in the economic, financial, social and environmental spheres during 2009.

The information presented in the report is based on a M...

On December 13, 2010, twenty-two countries from the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) and five international organisations agreed on the "Dubai Declaration on Diabetes and Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in the Middle East and Northern Africa Region." The agreement wa...

/PRNewswire/ - Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed are joining forces with YouthBuild USA to support its green education and job-training program for low-income youth. At a national kick-off event today in Philadelphia, Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed announced they are providing a th...

On the occasion of the 62nd anniversary, Novo Nordisk welcomes the Draft Guiding Principles presented by Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative to the UN Secretary General. The Ruggie's Guiding Principles elaborate and clarify for companies, states, and other stakehol...

/PRNewswire/ - According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 50.2 million people last year lived in food-insecure households, including 17.2 million children. Smithfield Foods, the leading processor and marketer of fresh pork and packaged meats in the Uni...