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Luton, Bedfordshire, UK - Thousands of employees across Luton joined forces last month in an attempt to achieve a world record in recycling.

The entire workforces from six of the area's biggest employers - Whitbread, Vauxhall, IBC...

Washington, D.C. - What is Proxy Access?
On Oct. 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published proposed rules allowing shareholders a new, but severely limited ability to propose nominees for corporate boards. Earlier this year, the S...

NEW YORK - AXIOM Global Trading announces today that they have secured office space for a national non-profit charitable organization at the prestigious 140 Broadway building in the heart of the financial district in downtown New York City.

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Global Compact reports several new initiatives including:

Opening NASDAQ, Kell Stresses Importance of Shared Values
14 October - Georg Kell, Executive Head of the Global Compact, officially ...

LONDON - New research announced today by Business in the Community has found that consumers are now purchasing a product associated with a good cause every second in the UK. The Business in the Community Giving Now 2003 survey, supported by BMRB, has discovered that 8...

ATLANTA - UPS (NYSE:UPS) employees around the world began a week of synchronized community service today, including volunteering their time to give food to the homeless, read to disadvantaged children, plant trees and help build schools. Global Volunteer Week is part ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – As a nearly perfect example of public/private partnership for the benefit of communities in need, the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation recently borrowed $13 million from the City of Las Vegas to help disadvantaged kids in Las Vegas’ Clark Count...

SILVER SPRING, MD. - OPTIMUS Corporation, a leader in public safety technology, today announced that it has been selected as a winner of the 2003 National Capital Business Ethics Awards, presented by the Greater Washington and Northern Virginia Chapters of the Society...

Planeta has published a preliminary review of World Bank lending and communication in the field of sustainable tourism investment. Among the conclusions are that the World Bank has been slow to develop a strategy that incorporates tourism to combat poverty... and it h...

ZURICH - SAM Indexes today announced that the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes have been licensed to UBS Global Asset Management (Japan) Ltd as underlying and reference benchmark for a new sustainability offering in the Japanese market. The product will be launched in...