Manufacturing
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the manufacturing industry.
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01-30-12
Hershey Expands Responsible Cocoa Community Programs in west Africa
- Certified Products: Hershey to source cocoa for Hershey's Bliss chocolates from Rainforest Alliance Certified
- Ivory Coast Investment: Hershey to expand company's innovative CocoaLink mobile phone program to farmers in Ivory Coast
- Farmers & Families: HERSHEY LEA...
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01-30-12
Novartis Extends Commitment to Help Achieve Final Elimination of Leprosy
- New five-year commitment includes donation of treatments worth an estimated USD 22.5 million and is expected to reach an estimated 850,000 patients
- Novartis will also intensify efforts to build a multi-stakeholder initiative in a final push against leprosy
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01-23-12
ScottsMiracle-Gro to Award Grants for Community Garden and Green Space Development
/PRNewswire/ - The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG) is helping improve more communities with the availability of its GRO1000 Grassroots Grant awards. As part of the GRO1000 program, a commitment to build 1,000 community gardens and green spaces by 2018, Grassroots Gr...
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01-19-12
Novo Nordisk Named to FORTUNE'S '100 Best Companies to Work For' List for Fourth Consecutive Year
/PRNewswire/ - Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO), the world leader in diabetes care, has been ranked 43rd in FORTUNE magazine's 2012 "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. Reflecting the passion of Novo Nordisk's employees, the company has been highlighted on the list for four consecutive years.
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12-13-11
CSL Limited (ASX:CSL) publishes Corporate Responsibility 2011
CSL Limited has published its third Corporate Responsibility Report - Our Corporate Responsibility 2011 - available at
www.csl.com.au/about/corporate-responsibility.htm
The report details CSL’s per...
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12-09-11
Diageo's First Sustainable Packaging Guidelines Published
This week Diageo took a further step on our journey to becoming a truly sustainable business with the publication of our first Sustainable Packaging Guidelines. Representing our global policy on ensuring our packaging is increasingly sustainable, the guidelines reflect Diageo’s commitment to a ho...
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12-07-11
U.S. Female Students Enter College Most Prepared for STEM Studies, According to Faculty at America's Top Research Universities in a New Bayer Survey
American women entering college are the best prepared academically to hit the books and successfully graduate with a STEM degree (82 percent), according to a survey of faculty from the nation’s top 200 research universities who chair STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) departm...
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12-05-11
Merck for Mothers and PATH Collaborate to Identify Innovations that Save Mothers' Lives
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, awarded a grant to PATH, a global health nonprofit, to identify game-changing technologies with potential to save the lives of women during pregnancy and childbirth in low-resource settings. Spearheaded by top scientists from M...
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12-02-11
Novartis Foundation symposium looks at impact of Information and Communication Technology on democratization and development
- Experts analyze how e-health applications improve access to quality healthcare and help contribute to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals
- The symposium discusses the role of social media platforms in the Arab Spring and the impact of mobil...
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11-30-11
Novo Nordisk Reaches a Milestone in Animal Testing
As of 28 November 2011, Novo Nordisk will no longer use living animals to test the quality of the batches of medicine coming out of Novo Nordisk’s production lines. These tests have for years been required by health authorities as part of their approval of the products.
“Today’s achievemen...
