Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

A Tradition of Fearless, Family and Founders Gets Bacardi U.S.A, Inc. Great Place to Work-Certified™

The certification was achieved as a result of programs offered in the workplace and positive survey results, including 96% of employees stating it's a great place to work and 98% saying that when you join the company, you feel at home.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Achieves Bronze-Level Military Friendly Employer Status

Whirlpool Corp. was recognized as a Veteran Friendly Employer for the fifth year in a row by Victory Media; this year, for the first time as a Bronze-Level Friendly Employer.

Green Infrastructure

Georgia Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration & The Ray Sign Charter, Formalize Initiative to Build Future Highways Infrastructure on Interstate 85

The Ray, Georgia Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration commitment to working in partnership on the living transportation innovation laboratory along 18 miles of Interstate 85, known as The Ray.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Big Change for Box Tops

Since Box Tops for Education launched in 1996, 70,000 schools have earned more than $913 million. That has helped pay for much-needed art supplies, field trips, playground equipment, library books and much more.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Power Of Purpose: How Virginie Helias And P&G Are Making Sustainability 'Irresistible'

P&G's Chief Sustainability Officer Virginie Helias's journey to sustainability began with her being faced with a challenge when she was leading the detergent business in Europe in the 2000s with their lead brand Ariel down for three years in a row.

Sustainable Development Goals

Get With the Goals: Corporate Reporting on the SDGs

The business value of using the Sustainable Development Goals to inform corporate reporting

Innovation & Technology

Internet Essentials: 2019 Program Kickoff and Announcement

Comcast's Internet Essentials program is the nation's largest and most comprehensive high-speed Internet adoption program for low-income Americans.

Research, Reports & Publications

Wells Fargo Releases 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) today released its 2018 Corporate Responsibility report, Purpose in Action.

Diversity & Inclusion

Fifth Third Bank Named to Diversity Best Practices Inclusion Index

Fifth Third Bank is pleased to announce that for the second consecutive year, it has been recognized by Diversity Best Practices, a division of Working Mother Media, for creating an inclusive workplace.

Diversity & Inclusion

Interview With Shannon Brattebo, Environmental Engineer

Shannon Brattebo has worked at Tetra Tech since 1999 as an environmental engineer specializing in lake and reservoir restoration and management, water quality monitoring, modeling, and assessment.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Business Leaders, Investors and Industry Experts Will Meet in Amsterdam in October to Discuss the Future of Sustainability Reporting

Over 300 CEOs, business leaders, investors, Government representatives and NGOs will share their latest strategies and drive discussions on how companies can fully assess, report their impacts and demonstrate leadership on key social and environmental issues.

Energy

Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods Break Ground on Largest Renewable Natural Gas Project in North Carolina

Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods, Inc. are pleased to announce that the companies are breaking ground on North Carolina’s largest renewable natural gas (RNG) project through their joint venture, Align Renewable Natural Gas.

Energy

Adoption of Zero Emission Vehicle Program Will Drive Colorado’s Transition to a Clean Transportation Future

Influential investors and companies commend the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission today on their decision to adopt the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program and increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on Colorado’s roads.

Media & Communications

A Splash of Color to Brighten Your Journey

IVECO – based in the Czech Republic – invited over 150 local kindergarten students to enter its “Color Your Bus” contest.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Awards More Than $200,000 in Grants for Workforce Education and Training Across Greater Cincinnati

Duke Energy today announced $203,315 in grants to eight organizations focused on workforce development across Greater Cincinnati.

Social Impact & Volunteering

How the General Mills Foundation is Mobilizing a Global Volunteer Workforce

The General Mills Foundation’s (GMF) executive director, Nicola Dixon discusses GMF’s award winning partnership with Partners in Food Solutions (PFS).

Responsible Production & Consumption

Costa Crociere Foundation and Sahara Forest Project Join Forces for Sustainable Farming in the Desert of Jordan

For the first time guests onboard Costa Cruises and AIDA Cruises ships calling at Aqaba, Jordan, will taste vegetables produced by using saltwater and solar power in the desert. The initiative contributes to the revegetation of desert areas in Jordan

Environment

3D Printing Factors Big in HP’s Sustainability Game Plan

3D printing will continue to play a key role in HP’s mission to create a circular and low-carbon economy—a vision and set of initiatives benchmarked in its most recent 2018 Sustainable Impact Report.

Research, Reports & Publications

Working to Offer More Efficient Solutions

Caterpillar has a long history of and a strong process for innovation in research and development.

Diversity & Inclusion

Northern Trust Achieved a 100% Score on the Disability Equality Index This Year

Northern Trust was recognized as a ‘Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion', this year achieving a 100% score on the Disability Equality Index.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

In Effort to Support Childhood Cancer Research, Aflac Addresses Facebook’s Algorithm Change

Recent efforts have resulted in Aflac winning first place in the “Use of Facebook” category of PR Daily’s 2019 Digital Marketing & Social Media Awards.

Responsible Production & Consumption

ON Semiconductor’s Plastics Go Electric!

Did you know that all finished goods plastics from our 22 manufacturing sites and most sub-contractors globally are shipped to ON Semiconductor’s Reclamation Center (OSRC) located at our headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona?

Research, Reports & Publications

When Water is the Product, How Do We Afford Sustainability?

Data analytics, properly aggregated and visualized to give operators actionable insights to inform better decision making, can put facilities on a path to sustainability and resilience.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Watch the P&G ACTIVATE Documentary Series Starting Next Month

ACTIVATE is a six-part National Geographic documentary series about Global Citizen's efforts to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. Each episode delves into a different issue connected to poverty as world-renowned artists like Hugh Jackman, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Pharrell Williams; corporate leaders like P&G; grassroots activists and impacted people work to ignite change.

Green Infrastructure

The Place Makers Episode 3 - Barangaroo, Sydney

Watch how Aboriginal people have been living sustainably in the area known as Barangaroo for at least 80,000 years, home to one of Australia's most important urban regeneration projects.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  2. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  3. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  4. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  5. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  6. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  7. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
  8. Aflac Insights
    Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...
  9. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  10. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  11. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  12. Aflac Voices
    Hear from Aflac’s senior leaders and subject matter experts about industry trends and more.
  13. Plastics Footprint
    We aspire to be a leader in driving innovative solutions that address the problem of plastic pollution and enable a circular economy. We are committed...
  14. Accelerating access to healthcare technology
    We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...
  15. Health & Nutrition
    Be the leading nutritious and sustainable product development partner for our customers, developing industry leading solutions that enable the...