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Behind the Brands

Raymond C. Offenheiser | Posted 04.29.2013 | Impact
Read More: Multinationals, Food Companies, Unilever, Behind the Brands, Poverty, Mondelez Internatonal, General Mills, Supply Chain, Globalization, Mars, Associated British Foods, Nestlé, Food System, Global Supply Chain, Hunger, Kellogg, Coca-Cola, Beverage Companies, Consumers, Consumer Power, Pepsico, Brands, Danone, Impact News
Raymond C. Offenheiser

The system is poised for change. Now is the time for all of us to show companies that it is in their interests to lead. No brand is too big not to listen to its customers, and if enough of us urge the "Big 10" to do what is right, they will have no choice but to listen.

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Andrea Stone

Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus Wants To Put 'Social' In 'Business' To Help Poor

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 10.11.2011 | Impact
Read More: Philanthropy, Foreign Aid, Mohammad Yunus, Microcredit, Danone, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, Haiti, Hillary Clinton, Dannon Yogurt, Nobel Peace Prize, Social Business, Good News, Humanitarian Aid, Intel, Impact News

WASHINGTON -- The Nobel Peace Prize winner who invented microcredit presented his latest idea for combating poverty, "social business," to the State D...

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Nestle Expands In China With Large Stake In Candymaker

Posted 09.10.2011 | Business
Read More: Kraft Foods, Povos, Yinlu Foods Group, Danone, Hsu Fu Chi International, Numico, Kitkat, Emerging Markets, Credit Suisse, Philips, Cadbury, Unilever, Mars Inc, Nescafe, Wrigley, Nestle, Kepler Capital Markets, China, Business News

SINGAPORE/ZURICH (Saeed Azhar and Silke Koltrowitz) - Nestle, the world's largest food company, is paying a hefty $1.7 billion for a 60 percent st...

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China's Ambivalent Tiger Moms: When in Rome...

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.29.2011 | World
Read More: Single Child Policy, Tang, Chinese Fathers, Ego, Little Emperors, EQ and IQ, Chinese Education, Chinese Mothers, Sugar Coated Pills, Wyeth, Chinese Hierarchy, Gao Kao, Confucian Child Rearing Practices, Pizza Hut, Individualism, Chinese Ambition, McDonald's, Chinese Universities, Amy Chua, Chinese College Entrance Exam, Western Child Rearing Practices, Kfc, Infant Nutrition, Tiger Moms, Danone, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Smarties, Dumex, World News
Tom Doctoroff

In the People's Republic, contemporary mothers, flooded with information that promote a more liberal model of modern parenting, are conflicted.

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Muhammad Yunus: Social Business, the Financial Crisis and the Little Engine that Could

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Yunus, Danone, Microcredit, Poverty, Nobel Peace Prize, Grameen, Bangladesh, Economy, Volkswagon, Financial Crisis, Poor, Social Business, Laser, Capitalism, Cofinoga, Business News
Vivian Norris

Muhammad Yunus, the poor, and countries which we have always considered "underdeveloped" have a lot to teach us about sustainability!

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