L’Oreal comes top in WWF’s appraisal of the environmental and social records of the leading luxury brands, despite the French luxury cosmetics giant scoring only a C+ on the A-F scale. WWF is calling for luxury brands to improve their environmental and social record, as well as asking celebrities to consider these factors before endorsing [...]

Tod’s ultimo, Bulgari penultimo. Non fanno una bella figura, i marchi del lusso italiano, nella classifica dei «ricchi ma buoni» redatta dal Rapporto del Wwf inglese pubblicato ieri. Il Rapporto, intitolato «Deeper luxury», passa al microscopio i dieci maggiori brand mondiali del lusso, per vagliare il tasso della loro eticità. E’ un esercizio abbbastanza [...]

An article on the FT.com entitled “Luxury brands fails to make ethical grade” relates a report issued by the UK branch of WWF that Luxury brands do not really care about corporate social responsibility, ethics and the environment. The report, based on data collected from the Ethical Investment Research Service and the Swiss based [...]

« Stars du cinéma et de la mode, faites attention à l’éthique des marques auxquelles vous associez votre image ! » Cet appel du WWF-UK, publié jeudi dans son rapport Deeper Luxury, est abondamment relayé par la presse anglophone (Financial Times, The Guardian, Times Online, Reuters, …). Le degré de détails avec lequel le Financial [...]

London-based WWF, a group that works towards ending environmental and social degradation, rated a number of luxury brands for sustianable practices that go beyond corporate responsibility. WFF released its first report called Deeper Luxury, in which authors examined environmental and social record of top luxury brands, and in particular, asked celebrities to disengage support of [...]

Some of the world’s biggest luxury conglomerates have failed to make the grade in a ranking of ethical and environmental performance. A report released today by the WWF, the conservation group, entitled “Deeper Luxury”, gives Bulgari and Tod’s, the Italian jewellery and accessory companies, a grade F for their “environmental, social and governance performance and [...]

Sommige van ’s werelds belangrijkste luxehuizen zijn gezakt voor een examen in ethisch en maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen, dat werd afgenomen door het WWF (World Wildlife Fund). Bedrijven als Bulgari en Tod’s krijgen een F mee op de schaal van A+ (90-100%) tot F (0 – 49%). WWF onderzocht de 10 [...]

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 [...]

WWF’s Deeper Luxury report looked at 10 holding companies for luxury brands, including LVMH, PPR, Richemont and Tod’s, and ranked them according to their ethical policies. Few companies fared well in the report, with Hermes and LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, scoring a C+ – the highest grade awarded in the report. PPR, which owns [...]

French premium goods firm LVMH, owner of Moët Hennessy, has come third in a scoring of the world’s luxury companies, based on green credentials. The report released by conservation group WWF places LVMH just behind L’Oréal and Hermès in a ranking based on “environmental, social and governance performance” of 11 major firms. WWF came by [...]