Spain-based management rating and research firm Management and Excellence (M&E) has recently released its 5th annual report titled ?Most Sustainable Oil/Gas Companies 2008? that helps leading Oil companies benchmark against each other. This particular ranking, marketed with Oil & Gas Journal Online, measures oil/gas companies' factual compliance with 400 accepted international standards in sustainability, ethics, [...]
Construction companies have tough fight for survival, ERR News reports. Alar Kullison, member of management board of Skanska EMV, one of Estonia?s biggest construction companies said that talks of ending operating are not true. The company, which was named simply EMV before, is going to have its 60th birthday in September.
The fight has led companies [...]
Ceres and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants have named the sustainability reports of 21 companies contenders for their seventh awards program. Companies such as Gap Inc., Nike, Dell, and Xerox were among the 21 companies that displayed “exemplary disclosure that placed performance in the broader context of sustainability challenges, risks and opportunities,” according to [...]
Toyota Motor Europe is one of the six companies to join CN Net today, a web-based network which impresses upon governments, local authorities, private companies and individuals to make large carbon cuts. “The participation of a major company like Toyota is a sign that private companies are increasingly playing their part on the road to [...]
A free trial starts this week to provide small companies with access to thousands of public sector contract opportunities. From 1 May until 31 July 2008, the www.supply2.gov.uk website will allow new registrants to gain free access to public sector contracts valued under £100,000 for the UK and Northern Ireland.
Since it launched in June 2006, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: Small companies get access to public sector contract opportunities, url: http://www.publictenders.be/small-companies-get-access-to-public-sector-contract-opportunities/ });
They may seem sweet, but chocolate companies have left a bitter taste in the mouths of many consumers. A class action lawsuit has been proposed against four major Canadian chocolate companies: Nestlé, Hershey?s, Cadbury and Mars. The Toronto law firm Juroviesky and Ricci LLP allege the major manufacturers have gone against the Competition Act by [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Startups - Know Your Market
Nowadays, very few companies are worried about hosting mission critical applications outside of their own networks. Security is less of a concern, because companies are generally comfortable with Web security. And SLAs still exist, but they?re not the predominant issue. Most companies understand that web-based / hosted applications stay [...]
This second part of my report from the Traveling Geeks tour in Paris is focused on the companies we visited during the first two days, Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th of December 2009. With startups with short presentations, startups with long meetings, then larger companies (Orange, Parrot).
I?ll start here with the startups we met at [...]
European regulators raided some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies yesterday in an inquiry into whether they conspired to keep up the price of drugs after patents expired. Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and Sanofi-Aventis were among those that confirmed they had been visited as part of a European Commission-led probe into delays in the launch of [...]
Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its third annual ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in 2007. An overview of emerging and decreasing topics is also given. The main results across sectors are: > Rio Tinto, Dell and Marks & Spencer enter [...]
Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the 2nd Quarter of 2008. An overview of emerging and decreasing topics is also given. The main results across sectors are: > Toyota gets Best EthicalQuote Score across [...]
Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the 3rd Quarter of 2008. An overview of emerging and decreasing topics is also given. The main results across sectors are: IBM enters top 10 EthicalQuote score across [...]
WWF launches ?Deeper Luxury? today. The new report examines the environmental and social record of some of the world's top brands and ranks them on their ethical performance. It looks at the top ten holding companies for luxury brands, including L'Oréal, Hermès, Tods, Tiffany & Co and Swatch. The companies have been ranked according to [...]
Over 20 local companies attended a workshop last week at Lisburn?s Lagan Valley Island to get top tips on tendering for business in the all-island public procurement market, which, despite the economic effects of the recession, is still worth approximately £15billion.
The Go-2-Tender event, run by all-island business development body InterTradeIreland has already helped 240 companies [...]
Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the 1st Quarter of 2008. The main results across sectors are: > Unilever, Toyota and HSBC consolidate their leadership with Best EthicalQuote Score. > Wal-Mart, Toyota and Marks [...]
