Monthly Archives: December 2009

Adam, Hayley, Roger, Tim and William would like to wish our clients, our partners, and the visitors to our website, a very happy new year.

We’d like to take this opportunity to use the CO3 blog to highlight this discussion piece written by Dai Powell of HCT Group.  HCT are a client of CO3 and we know the organisation well. It discusses, in a particularly erudite manner, how the UK trade union movement has failed to understand or embrace the [...]

The recent news that Nestlé plans to coat a proportion of their Kit Kats in Fair Trade chocolate, discussed a few days ago in the CO3 blog, has raised an interesting point. It is clear that opponents of the company, such as the Baby Milk Action campaign, feel that this decision is a PR ploy. [...]

How much do you know about your footwear? We would probably expect manufacturers to talk about their supply chains, their labour practices, in short, their corporate social responsibility. But, for some reason, there isn’t as much information out there as you might like.
Perhaps Britain’s best known shoe company is Clarks, or C&J Clark Ltd, to [...]

The news that Nestlé has decided to coat Kit Kat, which has been the UK’s favourite chocolate bar for as long as anyone can remember, in Fair Trade chocolate didn’t surprise us in CO3 world. In a refreshingly honest radio interview this morning, a representative of the company explained the bottom line. This decision is [...]