Research & Reports

Walmart Performance Highlights

Walmart provides food, apparel and household products to hundreds of millions of customers in 28 countries around the world. We are committed to doing so in a way that creates economic opportunity for associates, suppliers and others in retail supply chains; enhances the environmental and social sustainability of supply chains; and strengthens the communities where we live and work.

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Walmart | A Letter From our Chief Sustainability Officer

Last August, Walmart leaders joined the mayor of New Orleans and many others to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – a devastating event that affected the entire U.S. Gulf Coast, including hundreds of thousands of Walmart customers and associates. We remembered the heroes and the victims, sponsored a citywide day of service and led a disaster resilience symposium with the United Nations RISE (Research Initiative for Social Equity) initiative.

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Investors Care More About Sustainability Than Many Executives Believe

Sustainability is increasingly important for investors, as evidence mounts that companies' environmental, social, and governance performance has an impact on long-term financial success.

BCG’s seventh sustainability report in collaboration with MIT Sloan Management Review found that 75% of senior executives in investment firms see a company’s sustainability performance as materially important to their investment decisions—and nearly half would not invest in a company with a poor sustainability track record.

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Walmart 2016 Global Responsibility Report | Advocating for the Customer

Winning with customers means being actively on their side – making their daily lives better. As we share in our Annual Report, customers should be able to shop on their own terms – in a great store or club, with a quick pickup stop on the way home from work, or with items reliably arriving at the front door.

Events

Don’t Be A One-Hit Wonder: June 14 ‘Lunch and Learn’ Shares Formula CSR and Sustainability Communicators Follow for a Steady String of Hits

The phrase “one hit wonder” refers to pop musicians who manage to squeeze out a hit before fading into obscurity. There is a strong correlation to the fast-paced news environment faced by today’s corporate communications professionals.

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Vancity’s 2015 Annual Report Outlines How Strong Foundations Can Lead to a Sustainable Future

Vancity’s 2015 Annual Report, Strong foundations for a sustainable future, documents the credit union’s sound financial position and unique relationships with local communities. The integrated annual report can be viewed at annualreport.vancity.com.

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SABIC Launches its Fifth Sustainability Report, Enabling Tomorrow’s Solutions.

SABIC announced its fifth Sustainability Report, Enabling Tomorrow’s Solutions.

The report is a summary of the successes SABIC achieved in many areas of its business in 2015 on the journey to a more sustainable future.

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Sustainability Report Outlines GM’s Efforts to Strengthen Business, Communities through Mobility

The 2015 Sustainability Report, Accelerating Ahead, uncovers how GM is sustainably moving the world through connectivity, car-sharing, alternative propulsion and autonomous vehicles.

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Coca-Cola Enterprises Releases 11th Annual Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report

Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE/ Euronext Paris: CCE) has today launched its 11th annual Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) report, providing an opportunity to reflect on CCE’s 10-year sustainability journey.

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