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Supermarkets: is the industry delivering the goods?
As the government prepares its verdict on the Safeway's takeover, Briefing considers the wider role that the supermarket industry plays in UK society. The sector’s main players makes much of their commitment to corporate social responsibility, but does this make much of a difference?
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Comment: Human rights
In our last edition, we reported that Amnesty International and the IBLF had teamed up to map where individually named global companies in seven industry sectors are operating in 'at risk' countries for human rights abuse
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Human rights: A global
liability
Governments and campaign groups are turning up the pressure on companies to take responsibility for human rights. One answer is to
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Comment: Enterprise
In his guest editorial, Will Hutton makes a persuasive case that lack of attention to 'soft' employee issues damages corporate performance.
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Enterprise: A work in
progress
Twenty years on from the start of the UK's 'enterprise movement', it's time to reinvent the concept and tap into the dynamism of the global economy.
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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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Partnerships: an
irrelevancy...or worse, a distraction?
For some, our usual round-up of community partnerships adds little or nothing to important CSR challenges. We disagree.
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Comment: partnerships: an
irrelevancy...or worse, a distraction?
For some, our usual round-up of community partnerships adds little or nothing to important CSR challenges. We disagree.
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Arts: the need for
artistic licence
Sponsorship totals are down for the second year running, but arts organisations and their corporate supporters are getting creative about making the business case
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Community: trade not aid
can regenerate inner cities
Echoing the appeal of the developing world, the UK’s inner cities are turning to social enterprises, with growing support from the UK government
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Comment: communities:
trade not aid can regenerate inner cities
Echoing the appeal of the developing world, the UK’s inner cities are turning to social enterprises, with growing support from the UK government
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