Sustainablilty BUSS4 examples
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- Created on: 15-06-13 13:42
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- Sustainability
- Co-op group
- method of differentiation
- recession provides Co-op to grow by trading on ethical conditions
- need to change to compete with big super markets
- Goal of being the most sustainable business in the UK
- Local stores will focus on 10,000 community projects per year
- All fair trade products by 2013, healthier choices at the same proce
- Marks and Spencer
- Cut costs
- Plan to become the most sustainable retailer by 2015
- 180 commitments to communities, talking poverty and reducing harm to the environment
- £70mil added to revenue due to new strategy
- 180,000 people recycling clothes to Oxfam, getting a money off voucher for doing it
- savings came from
- 13.5mil more energy efficient
- 2m using less fuel
- 1m recycling and reusing
- 11m packaging reductions
- Starbucks
- genuine concern
- have set up farmer support centres in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, china and Costa Rica
- supports coffee farms, increases quality of their coffee and profitability
- communities now more sustainable, $14mil provided so far
- Apple
- bad press
- use FoxConn to manufacture products
- poor working conditions
- very little pay
- cramped conditions
- customers over look this due to Apples reputation
- after Fair Labour Association got involved Apple have agreed to improve conditions
- Co-op group
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