IRVINE, Calif., (June 29, 2011) – Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. (TMHU), has been named as one of 75 Green Supply Chain Partners in Inbound Logistics Magazine’s annual listing for the third consecutive year, since the award’s inception.
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Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.
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Unilever is set to support tea farmers in China’s Yunnan province through sustainable trade and training.
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Companies are realizing that by using a green supply chain for their business, they can reduce costs and gain a competitive advantage while helping the environment.
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Speedy Hire, a construction equipment rental and support services firm, has launched a strategy to help suppliers meet its sustainability requirements.
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Kraft Foods announced that their Cadbury Dairy Milk [plain] bar will be the first Fairtrade certified confectionery available in South Africa. Cadbury’s first step into Fairtrade came in 2009 in the UK and the company has since converted Cadbury’s Dairy Milk to Fairtrade Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In South Africa, some 1.4 million Cadbury Dairy Milk [plain] bars are sold every year.
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Sourcing and transporting goods can be the most overlooked—and inefficient—parts of how a business is structured. Here's how to examine and improve the environmental, economic, and social impact of your supply chain.
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McDonald's has vowed to improve sustainability in its European fish supply chain with the announcement that customers will be able to buy Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified sustainable fish in its restaurants across the region from October...
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Mattel has vowed to develop a sustainable procurement policy for all of its product lines which will address the issue of deforestation.
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Retailers and manufacturers seeking to evaluate the potential applicability of The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act to their businesses sh...
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At its annual meeting on Friday, shareholders will vote on a proposal asking Wal-Mart to require vendors to publish annual reports on working conditions in their factories.
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According to a new report by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), countries such as India are the worst offenders when it comes to exploiting child labor.
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Cargill’s cocoa and chocolate business has appointed a new specialist team to support the company’s commitment to build a sustainable supply chain for cocoa and chocolate.
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NEPCon and the Rainforest Alliance have launched a new tool today that will propel importers to take the necessary steps to prepare for the new EU timber regulation, effective from March 2013. Screening and management of supply chains is urgently needed for almost all EU companies importing timber and paper products.
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Today might be the big day for companies with a UK presence – the flexing from the Serious Fraud Office and the clamour around the revision of the Bribery Act earlier this year have created plenty of hype – but the question is: what happens now?
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interesting article by Dan Viederman, CEO of Vérité, published in CPO Agenda
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NEW ORLEANS, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cargill announced today at the 2011 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Food Expo that it is now offering...
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Leading companies are answering these questions a bit differently and looking to the supply chain for answers. Below are the top 10 reasons why most companies are incorporating eco awareness into the supply chains.
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Marriott, InterfaceFlor, PE Five Winds, Valley Forge Fabrics and other firms have launched the Hospitality Sustainable Purchasing Consortium to improve the sustainability performance of the hospitality supply chain.
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Hershey has been targeted by US protestors who accuse the confectionary company of failing to eliminate exploitative child labour from its cocoa production supply chain.
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One of the most striking things I first came across when looking through this research was how sustainable procurement has moved up the agenda of purchasing executives over the past few years. In 2003, 40% of respondents to a survey of procurement directors stated that sustainable procurement was an important/critical priority while in 2009 this had risen to an astonishing 90%.
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The company is in the midst of a rollout of a supply chain management project that's based on the one Procter & Gamble developed and released to the public.
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This issue is used to illustrate how lean production practices can affectconsumers, employees, and financial risk. Conclusions from the sweatshop labor issue are shown to apply to other sustainability issues as well.
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Energy-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2010 were the highest in history, according to the latest estimates by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
After a dip in 2009 caused by the global financial crisis, emissions are estimated to have climbed to a record 30.6 Gigatonnes (Gt), a 5% jump from the previous record year in 2008, when levels reached 29.3 Gt. In addition, the IEA has estimated that 80% of projected emissions from the power sector in 2020 are already locked in, as they will come from power plants that are currently in place or under construction today.
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