Wal-Mart says it’s creating a position to oversee compliance with US anti-corruption law after reports of possible bribery in Mexico. The company said the worldwide post would oversee compliance with the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and would work with regional directors to ensure compliance around the world, Wal-Mart said in [...]

A.P. Moeller Maersk, the world’s biggest container ship owner, is leading its industry in developing biofuels made from organic waste that could cut its carbon emissions and reduce a $6 billion annual fuel bill. Maersk is conducting tests with two Danish universities to develop clean fuels tailored for ships and has worked with the U.S. [...]

Last week, Wal-Mart announced the latest component of its relatively successful campaign to shift its image from corporate villain to socially responsible role model. The company promised that it would double its business with women-owned contractors and suppliers in the U.S. and internationally, and educate and train hundreds of thousands of [...]

For decades, packaged-food companies have been reducing fat and calories in their products. More recently the industry undertook a broad-based effort to eliminate trans fats, and even high-fructose corn syrup. But today, big food is at a crossroads. The companies that introduced products such as Doritos, Miracle Whip, Butterfinger and the venti caramel Frappuccino now [...]

Top U.S. retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. are battling to limit a new federal law that could force them to report whether their store-brand goods contain minerals from war-torn Central Africa. The requirement, part of the Dodd-Frank financial law passed in July, aims to pressure companies to spurn so-called [...]

Pensioenfonds PNO Media, the €3bn industry-wide pension fund for the Dutch media sector, has excluded US supermarket giant Wal-Mart from its investment universe because of labour law violations. “After careful consideration we have decided to add Wal-Mart to the PNO Media exclusion list,” the fund has said on its web site. Hilversum-based [...]

Plus de cinq ans après avoir entamé le processus d’accréditation syndicale, les employés du magasin Walmart du Plateau, dans le secteur de Hull de la Ville de Gatineau, ont obtenu une convention collective. Comme dans le cas de la succursale de Saint-Hyacinthe en avril 2009, un arbitre nommé par le ministère du [...]

Ten companies were recognized today at this year’s World Business and Development Awards (WBDA) for their efforts in improving the lives of some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities. [...]

Garment workers took the streets today in Bangladesh to demand a higher increase of the minimum wage. Wal-Mart and other Western brands have suppliers in this country. On the positive side, Walmart’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol Document and the greening of its security departments made the news.
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Bangladesh will almost double the minimum wage for its garment workers, a wage board official says, following months of violent protests over pay. It will rise from 1,662 taka ($25; £16) per month to 3,000 taka. The labour ministry is to formally announce the deal on Thursday. Workers wanted the rate, last raised in 2006, [...]