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  • ...e of info on the UK GM-crop trials, with info on each individual trial and its current status. ...al food security. It is a response to industrial biopiracy, control of the global seed supply and of our food. This evolving tool is designed to empower indi
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  • Syngenta Global ...aulds plc fr, becoming the Chief Executive of Courtaulds Textiles plc upon its demerger from Courtaulds plc in 1990. Currently also an international advis
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  • ...s with altered nutritional characteristics. The company recently announced its intention to seek regulatory approval for the introduction of a new GM rice ...41] Vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of irreversible blindness in the global south. Critics of the Vitamin A rice point out that it does not address the
    13 KB (2,036 words) - 12:44, 19 February 2007
  • ...elt land, lack of serious environmental policy and blatant greenwash. With its 'strategy of consolidation', copied directly from Wal-Mart, Asda pursues an ...ribe how Asda was formed in 1965 by a group of farmers from Yorkshire, and its activities are still mainly based in the north of Britain. It expanded sout
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  • ...t a 'company’s membership of the ETI is no guarantee that conditions for its workers are acceptable. Retailers do not have to meet minimum standards to ...continuous improvement of working conditions in global supply chains'.<ref>Global Social Compliance Programme [http://www.ciesnet.com/2-wwedo/2.2-programmes/
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  • ...breze, Sunny Delight, and Oil of Olaz. About half of P&G's sales come from its top ten brands. ...viewed 22/10/01</ref>. Finally, P&G produces chemicals. Today, P&G markets its products to more than five billion consumers in 130 countries. The company
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  • ...ncial basis, but many would question this assertion, especially as regards its investment in the the biotech sector. This is certainly not considered a sa ...nationals can force down the price they pay to farmers is because they are global in scope and can play farmers off against each other around the world. As t
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  • Once again, the NFU is seen to be out of touch with its grassroots members and the general public, in supporting the multinational ...nd the UK had a huge export market (which it doesn't), it could not export its way out of the farming crisis.
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  • ...ecent indications that the NFU is inching its way into the 21st century in its analysis of the farming crisis. In recent years, [[Ben Gill]] has begun to make some promising statements on global trade and the role that it played in causing classical swine fever and 'foo
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  • ...ed in its own name, with exceptions such as the Israeli food company Osem. Its website lists company addresses in 104 countries[7]. In 1995, André Kudelski was nominated by the World Economic Forum as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow". In 1997, he became member of the Board of Directors o
    20 KB (3,024 words) - 17:08, 19 February 2007
  • ...in 1998 with the UN. His role has essentially been to secure Big Business its place at the heart of influencing major multilateral institutions such as t ....uk/about/education/) Other contributions made by Nestlé to education are its sponsorship of the [[Australian Institute of Sport]] [43] and the [[America
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  • ...ern Foods]] is one of the largest food manufacturers in the UK having made its name and fortune through practically inventing the supermarket ready meal. ...d quarter of 2001, which were up 8% from the same period in 2000. Sales to its largest Supermarket customers ([[Tesco]], [[Asda]], [[Sainsburys]], [[Safew
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  • ...arming. The terms of reference for the Commission are crucially limited by its need to be ‘…consistent with the Government’s aims for Common Agricul ...-capacity is eliminated".[42] And Northern Foods supposedly sources 80% of its food in the UK so it is ensuring that this model is entrenched in the UK[43
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  • P&G’s philosophy: ‘getting the benefits of being a global company but never forgetting the importance of winning locally in every mar P&G consists of 7 Global Business Units, responsible for overall business strategy and planning for
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  • ...five million pages of content. The system allows P&G to find people in the global R&D organisation with similar skills and interests and connect them with on ...where virtually every household already uses P&G products, there are many global markets that are still untapped," says Miller. "We’ve just scratched the
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  • ...suspicion of the pharma industry. Greed, dishonesty and fraud are some of its associations. The clinical trial press this week and an increased number of P&G aggressively markets its products to the public, using clever marketing strategies, including advert
    54 KB (8,750 words) - 12:00, 28 March 2008
  • ...ission has perpetrated that. The only thing that could bring Tesco down is its management, and they do not make mistakes." - ''[[Carlos Criado-Perez]], fo ...bling its market share from 15% to 31% between 2000 and 2006, and trebling its store count by opening 1,200 new shops during this period. <ref> [http://w
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  • Tesco's head offices are situated along an industrial estate in Cheshunt. Its a far cry from the Mayfair or Park Lane addresses of many of the other FTSE 1. Barclays Global Investors (3.82%)
    13 KB (1,933 words) - 17:55, 29 July 2007
  • ...of this undermines British businesses on the home front as they battle in global markets.' ''Sir Terry Leahy''{{ref|1}} ...] sits in the House of Lords, and in 1999 Tony Blair's government launched its first annual report in Kensington Tesco{{ref|9}}.
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  • ...The 'Every Little Helps' section on the Tesco website illustrates some of its efforts. ...rates a huge amount of packaging waste which ends up in landfill sites via its customers’ bins. Tesco currently distributes 1.4bn plastic bags a year, w
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