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  • ...ment is putting further pressure on suppliers and therefore workers. Since its end at the start of 2005 conditions in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in particul ...ng lines were the fastest growing brands in the UK.[9] According to Tesco, its clothing sales were growing at six times the market rate.[10] Cheap clothes
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  • ...set up by the Labour controlled [[Scottish Parliament]] to give a voice to its rich friends in business. Ian Robinson formerly enjoyed a sucessful career in the global engineering and construction industry. This included senior posts with [[J
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  • ...sing itself off as environmentally progressive whilst continuing to expand its profits.
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  • ...In 1990 John Collins, then Chairman of Shell UK, said that the solution to global warming was to 'see this great challenge as a spur to ingenuity, the free m President of Global Marine Integrated Services and Chair of Stretch Performance Network Ltd.
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  • According to its "About Us" description: :Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and internati
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  • ...pledged £12 million to the charity over three years and said it would put its significant weight into promoting the charity’s consumer information webs ...total, £200-250m was spent on advertising. Further criticisms emphasise its reliance on industry for funding and argue an independent body would be a m
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  • ...ArcelorMittal]], the world's largest steel company and leader in all major global markets.<ref> Arcellor Mittal 2007 [http://www.arcelormittal.com/index.php? ...LNM Group) in 1976 and was its Chief Executive Officer.<ref name="Sachs"/> Its two sister companies [[LNM Holdings]] and [[ISPAT International]] were merg
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  • DLA Upstream was the lobbying branch of [[DLA]]. It is now known as [[Global Government Relations]] ...er of Dr Martens boots and which recently announced it would be moving all its manufacturing out of the UK in search of cheaper labour, is one DLA client.
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  • ...ent organisation is the global legal services organisation [[DLA Piper]]. Its lobbying subsidiary is [[DLA Upstream]].
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  • ...irector of [[BAT]] industries, the tobacco company, and Chief Executive of its financial services division, BAFS. This involved acting as Chairman of [[Al *[[Global Business Network]]
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  • ...he [[International War Crimes Tribunal]] pronounced the company guilty for its share of responsibility in the war and the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship. ...tions: Bayer, [[Hoechst]] and [[BASF]]. On 1 August 1963, Bayer celebrated its 100th anniversary at the Cologne fairgrounds. The opening speech was delive
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  • ...mbers in twenty EU states, plus Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. Ultimately its role is to influence policy and protect the business interests of brewers a The Brewers of Europe lists its priorities as follows:
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  • ...is of ideas. AAM believes in the marketplace of ideas—that journalism in its highest (and truest) form strives to provide citizens with information that ...ion]] "concentrates its resources on activities in education, environment, global development, performing arts, and population."
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  • ...ector.<ref>Beder, Sharon, ''Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda'', Earthscan, London, 2006, p. 140.</ref> ...Brittan of Spennithorne, Liberalising World Trade: Why Business Must Make Its Voice Heard]", IFSL World, Edition 1, Spring 2001, Web Archive 22 April 200
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  • ...s in the UK (the other being [[British Sugar]]). In 2010, the company sold its EU sugar refining businesses, [[Tate and Lyle Sugars]], to [[American Sugar ...ement in corporate propaganda and spying on its workers, not least through its long-term involvement with the [[Economic League]].
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  • ...nsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia. In 1916, the company made its first commercial sale to Brentwood golf course in Long Island, New York. By ...iliser formulated specifically for grass. 1928 also saw the company launch its own promotional magazine 'Lawn Care'.
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  • ...for the [[World Health Organisation]] (WHO), where he was responsible for global activities on the prevention of alcohol and drug abuse. He resigned from WH ...alcohol." <ref>Edwards, G. (1998) If the drinks industry does not clean up its act, pariah status is inevitable. British Medical Journal 317, 336.[ISI][Me
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  • ...Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Since its founding in 1999, GRSP has aimed to benchmark good practice and provide sol
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  • ...pean Union in 1993 and 2000 which in the view of Derek Rutherford of the [[Global Alcohol Policy Alliance]] clearly show their opposition to the public heal The Amsterdam Group listed its objectives as:
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  • ...rgeted initiatives which they believe promote sensible drinking. EFRD and its member companies believe in an approach to alcohol harm reduction that indi ...vailability and increasing harm. <ref> Derek Rutherford (2002) The Globe, Global Alcohol Policy Alliance[http://www.ias.org.uk/resources/publications/theglo
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