Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Times’ City Diary column recently hinted at a potential “hatchet job” on Michael O’Leary [Chief Executive of Ryanair], by the hand of a well-known and long-standing BBC documentary series.  This got us thinking – as we naturally do – of CSR issues, and specifically here of the question concerning a straightforward business approach to [...]

Financial reform is an area in which clear communication needs to be high on the agenda. Much of the recession, credit crunch, financial crisis, whatever you want to call it, has been attributed to people not understanding what they were buying or selling, or the risks they were taking in doing it. Now, we hope [...]

You may have forgotten but in the UK there is a registered charity called Business In The Community. It describes itself as a membership organisation that “mobilises business for good”. It has significant resources – an income in the region of £23m and around 350 employees.
Seen as something as a [...]

Primark, a discount fashion retailer that has been one of the UK’s high street success stories, recently predicted a buoyant set of results.  The company looks set to provide parent company Associated British Foods with a much needed profits injection, – like-for-like sales growth predictions at close to double digit levels, for the second half [...]

Having read in the FT that Wincanton has won a £275m contract with Marks & Spencer partly based on their ‘green outlook’, we thought it might be worth taking a closer look.
The company’s Environmental Strategy document is available here. It is clearly well thought-out, and positions Wincanton’s environmental strategy as a key part of their [...]