The UK's 100 most responsible companies

[Gwylan]

Is the one you work for on the list?

Abbey National; Aga Rayburn; Alliance & Leicester; Aqua Pura; Asics; Atmos; Authentic Bread; Baby Organix; Bagpuss & Clangers Soft Toys; Bahlsen (biscuits); Ballygowan; Bandai (toys); Baumatic Ltd; Bio-D; Biofa Natural Paint; Bradford & Bingley; Brio & Plan Toys; Britannia Building Society; Brother UK; Cafedirect; Casa Paints; Castle Dairies; Caurnie Soap Company; Chelsea Building Society; Cheshire Building Society; CIS Environ Trust; Clipper Teas; Co-op Bank; Co-operative Group; Coventry Building Society; Cream O'Galloway; Doves Farm Foods; Dualit; Dyson; Ecology BS; Ecos Paint; Ecotricity; Ecover; Epson; Equal Exchange; Faith in Nature; Gas 210 ECO & Quinta (boilers); Glenmorangie; Good Energy; Granovita; Green & Blacks; Green Baby; Green Energy 100; Green People; Hemp Garden; Hi Tec; Highland Spring; Hipp Organic; Holz Toys; Honesty; Hornby Plc; Infinity Foods; Innocent Drinks; Jonathan Crisp; Jordans; Karrimore; Kettle Foods Ltd; Kingfisher Toothpaste; Lego UK Ltd; Livos Paints; Lowe Alpine; Lush; Medivac; Mornflake Oats Ltd; Mother Hemp Ltd; Naturally So; Neal's Yard; New Covent Garden Soup; Northern Rock; Nutshell Natural Paints; Pascoe's; Percol; Playmobil; Prima & Akai; Puma; Rachel's Organic Dairy; Ricoh; Rocombe Farm; Sauflon Pharmaceuticals; Smile; Suma Wholefoods; The Body Shop; The Day Chocolate Company; The Redwood Wholefood Co. Ltd; Tom's of Maine; Traidcraft; Triodos; Vango; Viridian; Vitabiotics Ltd; Vivid Imaginations; Walkers Shortbread Ltd; Whitworths; Whole Earth; Yeo Valley Organic.

 

[Easy 10]

Responsible for what ?

 

[Gwylan]

It's badly worded. They mean most ethical.

 

[Yorkie]

They all look a bit 'green' to me.

 

[rool]

I see Wickes or Focus aren't in there.

 

[Easy 10]

Isn't "The Body Shop" a little conspicuous by its absence ? I thought old Anita well well into ecology and that kind of thing.

 

[Icy Gull]

Is the one you work for on the list?

; Lush; The Body Shop; .

Should have gone to specsavers Easy and what is Lush doing on that list?

 

[Easy 10]

Re: Re: The UK's 100 most responsible companies

Should have gone to specsavers Easy and what is Lush doing on that list?

D'oh.
I was looking under 'b'

 

[Braders]

suprising no wal-mart (asda)

 

[marvin]

Ethical in what way and how and whom is it judged?

 

[Lush]

Re: Re: The UK's 100 most responsible companies

Should have gone to specsavers Easy and what is Lush doing on that list?

I'm always very nice to the window cleaner

 

[JAMC]

Bloody hell!
Mine is.........

Ricoh.

I must admit they are very very enviroment aware etc etc.
We hardly throw stuff in the bin as it's all sorted and sent for recycling etc.
Good company.

 

[JAMC]

Where did you find that list?

 

[Marc]

Re: Re: Re: The UK's 100 most responsible companies

D'oh.
I was looking under 'b'

for some reason I found that highly amusing and laughed out loud

 

[Dover]

Hornby. I don't think so. They now are simply a packaging plant in Ramsgate, and their products are now made in the far east.

When this happened they laid off 200 workers, and it is cheaper to import their trains and Scalextric from China.

 

[Dover]

Also Dyson have done pretty much the same as Hornby!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There's a company called 'Ecover' on there. Presumably no relation (no 't') to the dandy highwaymen well into ripping off the the town in general and the Albion in particular

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

Smile
CIS Environ Trust
Co-operative Group
Co-op Bank

Surely, these are all ONE company?

 

[Gwylan]

It was from a press release I got (don't know why it was sent to me).

Here's the blurb describing how the list came about:

The newly formed Ethical Company Organisation (E.C.O) today announces the first 100 Companies invited to join its ethical company accreditation scheme, illustrating which Companies are overall most responsible to the environment, people and animals.

In order to create the definitive responsible company list, E.C.O research accessed over 50,000 records from as far back as 1989. The independent study (using researchers from ECRA) spanned News Reports, Court Reports, Public Complaints, and campaign information from non-government organisations like Greenpeace and Christian Aid.

In response to other queries:

No, all the Co-ops aren't the same; they're completely separate and have (or had) little contact with each other. I worked for a Co-op as a graduate trainee manager 22 years ago, so some things could have changed.

Ecover make washing-up liquids and other detergents.

 

[Yorkie]

I know Cafedirect pay coffee workers a decent living wage and 10p from every jar goes towards education in the coffee growing area so there are decents schools.