CSR Europe
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Background
CSR Europe's website states that the organisation was established in 1995 by senior European business leaders in response to an appeal by the European Commission President Jacques Delors. In 2009, they describe themselves as 'the leading European business network for corporate social responsibility with around 75 multinational corporations and 25 national partner organisations as members'[1]. They go on to describe themselves as a platform for:
- Connecting companies to share best practice on CSR
- Innovating new projects between business and stakeholders
- Shaping the modern day business and political agenda on sustainability and competitiveness
Objectives
• To help companies integrate CSR into the way they do business everyday. • To offer business managers learning, benchmarking, and capacity building opportunities. • To energise a broader stakeholder dialogue between businesses, European policy makers, governments, investors, social partners, civil society and academics.
Members
CSR describes how their membership enables companies to exchange ideas, connect to stakeholders and access expertise and information. They also go on to advertise how their membership bring opportunities of engaging in policy debates 'both at a practical and high level'[2].
2009 Membership
In 2009, CSR Europe's Corporate members are listed as including[3]:
- ABB | ABS Holdings | Accor | AGC Flat Glass Europe | Alcatel-Lucent | Alpro | Applied Materials | ArcelorMittal | Aviva | Bank of America | BASF | Belgacom | Bouygues | BT Group | Burson-Marsteller | Caisse des Dépôts | Canon | Cargill | Citigroup | Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company | Dassault Systèmes | Delta Cafes | Delta Holding | Dow | Enel | Epson | Fortis | France Telecom | GDF SUEZ | Groupe Caisse d’Epargne | Groupe Casino | Groupe Danone | Groupe La Poste | HP | Hydro | IBM | Intel | International Personal Finance | Intesa Sanpaolo | [Johnson & Johnson]] | JP Morgan | KPMG | L'Oréal | Lloyds TSB | Microsoft | Monte dei Paschi di Siena | Nestlé | Nordea | Novartis | Novo Nordisk | Panasonic | PricewaterhouseCoopers | Procter & Gamble | Randstad | Sanofi-Aventis | SAP | Schneider Electric | SNS Reaal | Solvay | Sony | State Street | STMicroelectronics | Telecom Italia | Titan | Total | Toyota | Unilever | Vattenfall | Vodafone | Volkswagen | Volvo AB
Previous members
Members for 2005 were listed as:
- ABB | Accor | Ahold | Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena | BASF | BP | BT | Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations | Caisse Nationale d'Erpagne | Casino | Citigroup | Coca Cola | Danone | Dassault Systemes | Deloitte | Delta Café | Dow | EDF | ENI | Epson | Euronext | Fortis | France Telecom | Glaverbel | Group 4 Securicor | HP | IBM | Intel | Intertek | Intesa | Johnson & Johnson | KPMG | La Poste | Lloyds | L'Oreal | LVMH | Manpower | McDonalds | Microsoft | Nestle | Nike | Nordea | Norsk Hydro | Novozymes | Orange | P & G | PWC | Randstad | Uitzendburo | Shell | Sony | Starbucks | STMicroelectronics | Suez | Swedish Jobs and Society | Syngenta | Telecom Italia | Titan | Total | Toyota | Unicredito | Unilever | Vodafone | VW[4]
Partnership Network
CSR Europe lists a Partnership Network of affiliated organisations across Europe. In 2009 there are listed as[5]:
- respACT - Austrian Business Council for Sustainable Development (Austria) | Business & Society Belgium (Belgium) | Business Leaders Forum (BLF) (Czech Republic) | Finnish Business & Society (Finland) | IMS - Entreprendre pour la Cité (France) | ORSE (Observatoire sur la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises) (France) | Econsense (Germany) | Hellenic Network for Corporate Social Responsibility (Greece) | KÖVET, The Hungarian Association for Environmentally Aware Management (Hungary) | Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) (Ireland) | Impronta Etica (Italy) | Sodalitas (Italy) | IMS Luxembourg | Samenleving & Bedrijf (Community & Business) (Netherlands) | Green Business Network Norway | Responsible Business Forum (Poland) | RSE Portugal | Scottish Business in the Community (Scotland) | Slovak Business Leaders Forum/Pontis Foundation (Slovakia) | Club de Excelencia en Sostenibilidad (Spain) | Forética (Spain) | CSR Sweden | Philias Foundation (Switzerland) | CSR Turkey | Business in the Community (UK)
Business and human rights group
This is a business to business network that meets several times a year. The group structures its discussions around expert contributions and stakeholder dialogue, field trip seminars and what we describe as action learning; examining case studies and, with the help of experts, learning from others' experience.
Companies have the opportunity to contribute to the EC multistakeholder forum roundtable discussions, particularly on human rights & trade issues, in 2003-2004.
Companies involved include: BP Europe, BT, Levis, Mattel, Nike, and Procter & Gamble, GM, Norsk Hydro, Coco Cola, Manpower, KPMG, Volkswagen, Nestlé, CDC, Dexia, Euronext, Fortis and Isis.
About Us CSR Europe is the leading European business network for corporate social responsibility with around 70 multinational corporations and 25 national partner organisations as members.
CSR Europe is a platform for:
Connecting companies to share best practice on CSR Innovating new projects between business and stakeholders Shaping the modern day business and political agenda on sustainability and competitiveness The organisation was founded in 1995 by senior European business leaders in response to an appeal by the European Commission President Jacques Delors. It has since grown to become an inspiring network of business people working at the very forefront of CSR across Europe and globally.
Contact
with effect of July 2009, CSR Europe is located at:
- CSR Europe
- Rue Victor Oudart 7
- 1030 Brussels
- Belgium
References
- ↑ CSR Europe About Us Accessed 16th July 2009
- ↑ CSR Europe Corporate Members Accessed 16th July 2009
- ↑ CSR Europe Our Members Accessed 16th July 2009
- ↑ CSR Europe, July 2005 Members Accessed July 2005
- ↑ CSR Europe Our National Partners Accessed 16th July 2009
