Community

RTZ- Home thoughts abroad
Up to now Community Affairs Briefing has profiled companies whose main sphere of operations is firmly UK orientated. But some of the Britain's bigger corporate citizens are transnational corporations. This profile examines the challenges facing one of the biggest.
Kingfisher: from charity
towards social
responsibility
An assessment of Kingfisher, one of Britain's leading retailers and the company behind such famous names as Woolworths,  B&Q, Comet and Superdrug.
 
Lessons from America
David Grayson from Business in the Community has just spent 3 months criss-crossing the USA, examining latest trends in American corporate community involvement. This is his personal States-side view, complete with ideas, examples and up-to-date jargon.
Damned by faint praise
As the latest initiatives to improve the place of women and disabled people in the workforce gather pace, criticism mounts about neglect of the needs of minority ethnic communities.
 
Legal & General:
planning for the
long-term while in a
recession
An in-depth assessment of one of Britain's leading companies, this time Legal & General.
Analysing charity data
As the recession bites, inadequate data frustrates those trying to divine long-term trends, yet current efforts to improve statistics could be taken much further.
 
Pan-European Sponsorship
Support for the arts is the most long-standing community affairs activity - now, under the impact of 1992, it is also the fastest changing.
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