Manufacturing
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the manufacturing industry.
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02-18-08
Philips publishes its 10th Annual Report on Sustainability
Royal Philips Electronics (AMS:PHIL, NYSE:PHG) announced today that it achieved a 33% increase in sales of Green Products in 2007, as published in the company’s 10th independently verified annual report on sustainability. Total Green Product sales resulted in EUR 5.3 billion in 2007, compared wi...
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02-11-08
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (LON:IMT) publishes Corporate Responsibility Review 2007
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC has published its fifth Corporate Responsibility (CR) Review. You can read it online or download it as a PDF at www.imperial-tobacco.com.
This year the Review endeavours to answer the question 'What does it take to...
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02-06-08
Novartis India Wins Award for Corporate Social Responsibility
February 6, 2008 - Novartis India received the Reader's Digest Pegasus CSR Gold Award in Mumbai on December 12. The award, in the "Contribution to individual welfare" category, recognizes the work the company has done in rehabilitating leprosy patients in India. The Pegasus ...
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02-05-08
Abbott 'Goes Red' to Educate Chicago-Area Women About Heart Disease
ABBOTT PARK, IL - February 5, 2008 - As a leader in cardiovascular treatment and the exclusive Chicagoland "hometown" partner for the national "Go Red for Women" program, Abbott (www.abbott.com) is partnering with the
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01-24-08
Leprosy on the Brink of Elimination: Public Health Leaders Prepare for Final Push
BASEL - January 24, 2008 - World Leprosy Day 2008, on Sunday January 27, heralds a historic moment: leprosy is on the brink of elimination after more than two thousand years as a disabling disease that cruelly isolated and impoverished the people it infected. Healthcare lea...
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01-22-08
PepsiCo Announces Initiatives With the Earth Institute and H2O Africa To Drive Sustainable Water Practices
PURCHASE, NY - January 22, 2008 "“ PepsiCo announced today a major new grant made by the PepsiCo Foundation to the Earth Institute at Columbia University, one of the world's premier institutions dedicated to global sustainable development. In addition, the company announced ...
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01-10-08
Linde Group (FRA:LIN) publishes Corporate Responsibility Report 2007
The Linde Group has published its latest comprehensive Corporate Responsibility Report. It can be viewed and downloaded at www.linde.com/sustainability. Hard copies can be ordered by sending an e-mail to
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01-10-08
Bayer Corporation Renames its U.S. Foundation, Refocuses Charitable Giving Areas
PITTSBURGH - January 10, 2008 - Bayer Corporation announced today it has changed the name of its corporate philanthropic arm to Bayer USA Foundation (from Bayer Foundation) and, under the new name, refocused one of the Foundation's four strategic giving areas, while maintain...
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12-20-07
PepsiCo Releases 2006-2007 Corporate Sustainability Report
PURCHASE, NY - December 17, 2007 - PepsiCo has released its Performance with Purpose Corporate Sustainability Report for 2006-2007. The online report charts the company's progress in Human, Environment and Talent Sustainability, and it provides an overview of PepsiCo and it...
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12-11-07
Bayer Foundation Awards $300,000 to MIT's Chemical Engineering Department for Professorship and Fellowship
PITTSBURGH - December 11, 2007 - The Bayer Foundation announced today it has bestowed a $300,000 grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Chemical Engineering to support the Bayer Professorship in Chemical Engineering and the Bayer Graduate Fell...
