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Anglo American: community engagement in a high impact industry
Ensuring good relationships with the community in high impact industries can sometimes be fraught with difficulty. Oliver Wagg explores how the world's second largest mining group is using an innovative 'socio-economic toolbox', to overcome the challenges.
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EDF Energy: The community
as customer
Public utilities have been slated for inflation-busting price rises. But EDF Energy's targeted approach to responsibility in the community may go some way to facing down the critics
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Marks & Spencer:
popular capitalism
While Marks & Spencer faces an ongoing struggle at the till, its performance as a responsible company is winning plaudits all round. Briefing takes a look at the new Company of the Year and finds that its philanthropic heritage has been remodelled into a modern, business-focused strategy.
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Rio Tinto: developing and
embedding corporate principles
Enron, CSR sceptics won't be slow to tell you, had an impressive set of business principles - and much good it did them. Briefing examines the strategy of Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies, to ensure that its business principles genuinely set the tone for the way it works.
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Commercial property
industry: building the foundations
The hand of the commercial property industry is writ large on every urban landscape. As this bricks-and-mortar sector looks to manage its impacts, Briefing asks what's driving large property development and management companies to get the foundations of good corporate citizenship in place.
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Whitbread: change and
continuity
Like the company itself, Whitbread's community involvement programme has embarked on an extensive programme of change. While this ushers in a new focus for its corporate community investment team, some of the fundamentals remain the same.
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HBOS: banking on the
community?
The HBOS management team have been reading their corporate responsibility textbooks. Their new strategy appears sharp and business-driven. Briefing takes a closer look at one of its four pillars – community involvement – and asks if it can really deliver the competitive edge HBOS hopes.
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Profile: McDonald’s UK:
going local in a McGlobal world
Love them or hate them, McDonald's Golden Arches mark high streets, motorways, and shopping centres up and down the UK. For a brand with such global connotations, Briefing analyses what role McDonald's UK has at a local level.
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The Co-operative
Insurance Society: open for business
The Rochdale pioneers understood what corporate citizenship meant over 150 years ago. A commitment to transparency is now helping Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) to translate these long-standing values into a twenty-first century context.
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BBC: unmasking community
involvement
The BBC faces a dilemma: give money to charity and licence payers brand it profligate and wasteful; fail to support the community, and people ask what distinguishes it as a public corporation? Resolving this dilemma has revealed key clues to what community involvement should really be about
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LE Group: cause célèbre
LE Group has emerged as one of the on-going successes of the 90s privatisation experiment. Yet, despite its impressive business performance, Briefing discovers that its community credentials still run deep.
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