All Corporate social responsibility articles – Page 14
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NewsAo.com founder Roberts: Retailers should ‘give back’
Ao.com founder John Roberts said retailers had a responsibility to “give back to the community” and it made business sense to help tackle social disparity.
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OpinionOpinion: A good name is as vital as good value
The new year is not yet a month old, but already retailers are again embroiled in controversy.
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VideoLegends: John Timpson, master of ‘upside down management’
John Timpson has built up one of the most distinctive businesses in modern retail.
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AnalysisIt wasn’t all bad: The 12 gifts of retail in 2016
It wasn’t all bad for retail this year. Here’s our seasonal celebration of how retail enhances lives and the nation.
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OpinionOpinion: Let the tills ring out for Christmas
Christmas is almost upon us and in the final week of trading retailers will pull out all the stops in their annual bid to ensure the golden quarter lives up to its name.
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NewsSainsbury’s airs Christmas ad backing Great Ormond Street
Sainsbury’s has unveiled its Christmas advert, an animated campaign designed to emphasise “sharing the gift of time”.
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NewsCo-op launches new membership scheme after pilot boosts sales and traffic
The Co-op aims to recruit a million new members over the next five years and to increase sales to members so they account for half of the total.
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OpinionOpinion: New times need new leaders with a different worldview
The world we live in today has changed unrecognisably since the 1980s and 1990s. Leaders needs to modernise for better results.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Five lessons retailers can learn from Tesla
Car brand Tesla is just 13 years old, yet its electric sports cars have made a big impact on the global automotive industry.
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OpinionIceland's Malcolm Walker: Retailers should be seen as heroes, not villains
Nothing is more important to any of us – whether as individuals or businesses – than our reputation. And few things of such great value are more fragile.
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OpinionOpinion: Corporate social responsibility as a marketing tool is outdated
Gap’s ‘Red’ campaign is 10 years old. However, it’s unclear who buys heavily-branded products to support the retailer’s work fighting AIDS.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Five things that retailers can learn from Pret
Founded by Julian Metcalfe and Sinclair Beecham as a sandwich shop in 1986, Pret is now on nearly every major British high street.
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NewsSports Direct pay investigation widened to include shop workers
HMRC’s investigation into the pay of Sports Direct’s warehouse staff is being extended to include the retailer’s store employees.
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OpinionOpinion: Radical insolvency review could ensure more retailer rescues
As insolvency laws come under greater scrutiny than ever following high profile collapses, what might come of the review into the framework?
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AnalysisBHS: Six questions Sir Philip Green is likely to face from MPs at hearing
As Sir Philip Green’s parliamentary inquiry looms, what questions will he have to answer about his involvement in BHS and its collapse?
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NewsSports Direct owner Mike Ashley admits staff were paid below minimum wage
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley said the retailer must “pull its socks up” after admitting that warehouse staff were paid below minimum wage.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How retailers can adapt to a ‘peak stuff’ consumer mentality
When Ikea’s head of sustainability Steve Howard stated that the West had reached a state of ‘peak stuff’, the reaction was one of surprise.
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NewsSports Direct's Mike Ashley shuns 'showboating' MP inquiry
Sports Direct’s founder Mike Ashley has accused MPs of “showboating” and said he will challenge being formally summoned to a parliamentary select committee.
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NewsAsda scraps food banks but pledges to donate additional £2m to charities
Asda has removed permanent collection points for food banks from its stores following a review of its community programme.
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OpinionOpinion: Making celebrity tie-ups work for retail businesses
Why there needs to be a meaningful relationship between celebrity and brand for consumers to care about an endorsement partnership.