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Media Round Up, 28 April 2008 28/04/2008 |
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Social enterprise Green Works uses furniture to help the environment - Come to Dialogues at Starbucks on Tuesday 29 April to discuss how business can support social enterprise
Business in the Community Green Works has received a Queen's Award for sustainable development, as a social enterprise structured as a not-for-profit organisation. | |||||||||
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OFT raids supermarkets in new price-fixing inquiry
The Guardian, p.24 Britain's biggest supermarkets are being investigated in another alleged price-fixing scam after the Office of Fair Trading swooped on the headquarters of retailers including Tesco and Asda last week. | |||||||||
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Oil multinationals rebuked for reluctance to tackle corruption
Financial Times, p.5 Most leading oil multinationals fall well short of best practice on revealing financial data and combating corruption, a survey unveiled today by Transparency International, the anti-graft group, claims. | |||||||||
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Virtue's reward? Companies make the business case for ethical initiatives
Financial Times, p.9 In Unilever’s London headquarters, Gavin Neath, the consumer goods group’s head of sustainability, takes a plastic contraption out of its cardboard box and places it on a table. | |||||||||
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Unilever and P&G targeted by OFT
The Daily Telegraph, Business p.1 Unilever and Procter & Gamble have become embroiled in an Office of Fair Trading investigation into allegations of price-fixing. | |||||||||
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Tesco to put carbon scores on goods
Daily Telegraph Tesco will start printing "carbon scores" on some of its goods this week, as part of a Government-funded project to force retailers and manufacturers to reduce the environmental damage from carbon dioxide emissions. | |||||||||
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