Hugo Boss has said that it will avoid wool for its fashion clothing chain from producers still using the practice of mulesing by 2010 saying that such practices contravene the company's corporate values. (16 Apr 2008)
According to a report released by environmental group Ceres, key investor champions of climate-change related activity have simultaneously been voting against resolutions demanding companies disclose more information on their climate strategies. (18 Apr 2008)
Ethical shopping company the Co-operative Group has attacked the move by the Soil Association to include a prohibition of air freighted goods within its organic labelling system. (22 Apr 2008)
Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of South Korea's biggest company Samsung, has quit his job following the bringing of charges against him of tax evasion and breach of trust. (22 Apr 2008)
A recent survey of US employees has suggested that 59 percent of employees believe that their own companies could do more to be environmentally friendly, with a full 68 percent believing that most companies engage in 'greenwashing' - making green
Campaigners dressed as orangutans scaled the walls of Unilever's London headquarters, as well as protesting outside a factory elsewhere in the UK, in protest at the company's sourcing of palm oil. (22 Apr 2008)
The UK's Office of Fair Trading has suggested that tobacco firms and supermarkets including Asda-Walmart, Sainsbury and Tesco, have been involved in an arrangement to swap information on future tobacco pricing which, whilst falling short of price-fixing, had the same
