After several tornadoes hit Northwest Arkansas in late May, leaders at our Glad plant in Rogers were forced to spring into action to keep our people safe and then work to restore operations after the facility was hit directly by the storm.
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Questions from sell-side stock analysts about corporate sustainability issues remain few and far between on the quarterly earnings conference calls held by publicly traded companies.
More and more institutional investors, however, are digging deep into voluminous sustainability reports to gain a strategic advantage.
Those are some of the observations shared this week during the Bloomberg BNA Sustainability Business Summit in New York.
Better than reducing CO₂ emissions is not producing any emissions at all. The solution is electric mobility. smart is now implementing this throughout the whole product range as the first manufacturer worldwide to take such a decisive step toward environmentally friendly driving.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM), and UK high-street retailer M&S has launched a campaign, ‘Spark Something Good,’ by teaming up with seven women, all of whom have been affected by breast cancer, to help get customers active to prevent the disease. During this month, the store will be donating 10 per cent of all women’s fitness clothing and sports bra sales to the charity, Breast Cancer Now.
During my years with KLD Research & Analytics, we saw our mission as two-fold. Our job was to remove the barriers at the top and to build the demand at the grassroots. We therefore created an index of companies created with social and environmental standards. That index outperformed the S&P 500.
Following decades of recession and slow growth, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe introduced a revitalization plan in 2012 – dubbed Abenomics – to address the key barriers of economic growth. One of the initiatives impacting corporations and capital markets was the establishment of Japan’s Stewardship Code and Corporate Governance Code. Implementation of these codes has led to greater attention among Japanese companies and investors on sustainable corporate earning capabilities.
Cutover helps banks choreograph their most intricate moves. One year after graduating from the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars,* founder Ky Nichol explains how Barclays has helped the fintech start-up leap onto a bigger stage.
Ballet and banking might seem strange bedfellows, but for fintech start-up Cutover, the analogy makes perfect sense.
As supply chains become more complex, consumers are in turn becoming more curious about the origins of the products they buy. This is especially true when it comes to the food we put in our bodies. Increasingly, consumers are demanding further transparency from companies – wanting to know where their products come from and what's in them. And companies are responding, establishing traceable supply chains to educate and engage consumers about important sustainability issues.
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