Plusieurs grandes entreprises, dont Shell, seront présentes au Forum mondial de l’eau, qui se déroule à Marseille du 12 au 17 mars. Une présence qui pourrait déclencher quelques controverses concernant les impacts des entreprises sur la ressource en eau. Certaines d’entre elles tentent cependant d’appréhender ce nouveau risque. « Le management du risque-eau par les [...]

Les actionnaires de Danone ont donné jeudi leur feu vert à la création par le groupe agroalimentaire d’un fonds consacré au développement d’un montant de cent millions d’euros qui sera complété chaque année par le versement de 1% du bénéfice net du groupe. La mise en place de ce fonds, voté en assemblée générale à [...]

Danone, the producer of Evian and Volvic, is tackling critics from environmental groups, as well as falling sales, with a plan to recycle as many plastic water bottles as it uses in the UK, The Times has learnt. The French company, whose bottles are made with 25 per cent recycled plastic from France and Germany, [...]

The Food & Beverage industry is consolidating its ethical record thanks to labour and environmental initiatives, but it has to fight hard to demonstrate the social utility of its products, states a report published today by Geneva-based ethical reputation research firm Covalence – Covalence Food & Beverage Industry Report 2007. The Food & Beverage industry [...]

Press Release 27 November 2007. Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules 2007. Lack of regulations drives baby food industry to new depths of aggressive marketing, monitoring results show. IBFAN, the International Baby Food Action Network, has today released an illustrated report on multinational companies violating the WHO rules on marketing (1). The 150-page report gives [...]

Selon les sources à disposition, on peut déduire que les consommateurs sont méfiants envers les produits qu’il consomment (Bizet et Dériot ; Masson ; Bompard ; Girardeau , le ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche). Dans ce travail, je démontrerai que les auteurs se rejoignent sur une lacune : le manque de transparence. La [...]

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday urged the government and private companies to do more “social business” to better help the poor. Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Price for his efforts to eradicate poverty, Yunus told a Tokyo news conference that official development assistance is “a very restricted framework” because it is basically a [...]

Franck Riboud is a romantic at heart. The chairman of French food multinational Danone is also an astute businessman with a particular nose for marketing. Yet he seems to be managing to combine his passionate commitment for social responsibility with the more humdrum prerogatives of business and maximising profits. His latest plan is to launch [...]