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These 10 Companies Control Basically Everything You Consume [GRAPHIC]

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Johnson and Johnson, Consumer-Brands, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Parent Companies, Unilever, Nestlé., Corn Flakes, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Consumer Products, Brands, P&G, Business News

It may be obvious that Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes are both made by Kellogg's, but did you know that Hot Pockets and L'Oreal share a parent company...

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Inside Scoop on Sustainable Brands 2012 Conference

Eddie Fernandez | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, LUSH Cosmetics, Patagonia, Unilever, Environmental Defense Fund, Sustainability, Green Living, Sustainable Brands, Sustainable Brands Conference 2012, Going Green, Impact News
Eddie Fernandez

Sustainability conferences, especially on the west coast, can be a full time job if you try and hit them all. It's important to distinguish the top events, and Sustainable Brands is one of them.

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Using Microfinance to Bring Clean Water to India's Poor

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Women, India, Microcredit, Poverty, Microinsurance, Empowerment, Hidustan Unilever Limited, Self Help Groups, David Roodman, Integrated Village Development Project, Credit, Puireit, Microfinance, Finance, Health, Banking, Unilever, Poor, Ivdp, Impact News
Tom Murphy

Mumbai -- A unique public-private partnership involving private sector giants like Unilever and Heinz is improving the health of Indian children. Two ...

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A Minute With... David Jones

David D. Burstein | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: UK, David Burstein, Walmart, Youth, Bp, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Entreprenuership, Millennial Generation, Social Business, Facebook, Havas, Advertising, Ceos, Millennials, Unilever, David Cameron, Generation Y, One Young World, Arab Spring, David Jones, Business News
David D. Burstein

I first met David Jones at the One Young World summit in Zurich where I saw these principles in action. I recently spoke with him about Who Cares Wins and his overall argument that holds that in the 21st century, businesses need to "do good" and "do well" in order to survive and thrive.

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Romney's Family Trusts Failed To Keep His Divestment Pledge

AP | STEPHEN BRAUN | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: New Oriental Education, China Life Insurance, R. Bradford Malt, Iran Sanctions Act, Mitt Romney, Congressional Research Service, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Gazprom, Video, Thomas B. Cooke, Commercial Bank of China, Mitt Romney Stocks, Schlumberger, Mitt Romney Divestment Pledge, BNP Paribas, Andrea Saul, Komatsu, China Merchants Holding, Susan B. Anthony List, Mitt Romney 2012, Unilever, Fresenius Medical Care, China North Oil, China Northshore Oil, Teva Pharmaceutical, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised in 2007 he would shed any investments that conflicted with Republican positions on hot-...

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New Year's Resolution: Optimism

Andrew Winston | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Unilever, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Ski Industry, Permafrost, Patagonia, Solar Energy, Climate Change, Nrg, Green News
Andrew Winston

The full logic of green -- the economic, environmental, social, and moral imperative -- is dawning on everyone from joe skier to fossil-fuel CEOs and local entrepreneurs.

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Business Headlines May Be Gloomy, But There Are Bright Spots

Judith Samuelson | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Advent Financial Services, walmart.com, Unilever, First Movers Fellowship, Social Innovation, Bbva, Aspen Institute, Business Impact, Fedex, Inter-American Development Bank, Business News
Judith Samuelson

When I check out the morning headlines, I have a yearning for the problems of yore. I want to go back to 2002 and worry about Enron, rather than a global meltdown.

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Tate Modern Shows Tacita Dean: FILM. New Commission for the Turbine Hall (VIDEO)

VernissageTV | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Tate Modern, Filmmaking, Tacita Dean, Unilever, Contemporary Art, Turbine Hall, Film, UK Arts, London, Video, Arts News
VernissageTV

The twelfth commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London has been realized by the Berlin-based artist Tacita Dean. Dean conceived a piec...

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Nestle Expands In China With Large Stake In Candymaker

Posted 09.10.2011

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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Could Well-Being Become Our New Currency?

Marc Stoiber | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Jules Peck, Happy Planet Index, Unilever, Bhutan, Tim Jackson, Gross National Happiness, Whipcar, Capitalism, Ted, Zipcar, Business News
Marc Stoiber

Combine the limitations of a finite planet and dubious correlation between wealth and happiness, and you see we're overdue for a bit of a recalibration.

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Advertising in China: What's New, What's Not

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Microsoft, Unilever, 4A Advertising Agencies, Global Brands, Nokia, Beijing Olympics, Local Brands in China, Expatriates in China, China Mobile, Advertising Strategy, Western vs. Chinese Advertising, Advertising-in-China, Chinese Private Sector, Chinese Brands, Anta, Hierarchy in China, Lenovo, Advertising, Chinese Market, P&G, Chinese Media, Soes, Business News
Tom Doctoroff

Luxury goods are a tool for career advancement in China. In the PRC, the key benefit of shower gel is "an energizing shower experience that helps me start the day with a kick."

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Saki Knafo

Dove Ad Casts Spotlight On Madison Avenue Racism

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Ogilvy, Dove, Soap, Racist Dove Ad, Wpp, Beauty Industry, Madison Avenue, Race, Beauty, Fair & Lovely, Mad Men, Dove Ad, Unilever, Racism, Discrimination, African Americans, Business News

When people ask Eugene Morris why he left a virtually all-white advertising firm in the early 1970s for an African-American one, he tells them about t...

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WATCH: Colbert Mocks Unilever For Making Money Off Female Insecurity

Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Video, Women's Issues, Colbert Armpit, Colbert the Word, Buy and Cellulite, Unilever, Dove Go Sleeveless, Female Insecurity, The Word Buy and Cellulite, Colbert Report, Colbert, Go Sleeveless, Comedy News

Wednesday night's "Colbert Report" featured his popular segment, "The Word," and this time its target was Unilever, the maker of Dove products for wom...

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EU Announces Huge Fines For Laundry Cartel

AP | By GABRIELE STEINHAUSER | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Anti-Trust, Price-Fixing, Proctor & Gamble, Laundry Cartel, Unilever, EU Fines, Eu, Business News

BRUSSELS -- European Union regulators on Wednesday fined consumer products companies Procter & Gamble and Unilever a total of euro315.2 million ($456 ...

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Major Tea Brand Stops Torturous Animal Testing Because Of PETA

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lipton, Peta, PETA Unilever, Unilever, Unilever Tea, Unilever Animal Testing, Lipton Animal Testing, Animals, Animal Test Tea, PETA Lipton, Unilever Animals, Animal Testing Unilever, Green News

Would you feel safer knowing that your tea was tested on pig intestines? Where should the line be drawn for animal testing? After scathing reports tha...

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McDonald's, Pepsi Tapped To Help Write UK Health Policy

The Guardian | Felicity Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Pepsi Co, Public Health, Fat, Mars, Diet, Obesity, Pepsi, Mcdonalds, Diageo, Nutrition, Food Politics, Fast Food, Alcohol, Unilever, Kellogg's, Food, Kfc, Tobacco, Food News

The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, ...

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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wheat Prices, General Electric, Russian Drought, Renewable Energy, Pakistan Floods, Green Business, Tropicana Orange Juice, Kaiser Permanente, China, Zero-Waste, Pepsi, Data, Gm, Bowman Design, Climate Adaptation, Ibm, Cancun Climate Summit, Panasonic, Biomimicry, Unilever, Biofuels, Wal-Mart, Canadian Oil Sands, Trade Barriers, Cotton, Supply Chain, Marks & Spencer, Sony, World Trade Organization, Local Food, Water, Matt Kistler, Rare Earth Elements, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, US Navy, Climate Bill, P&G, Nissan Leaf, Electric Cars, Green News
Andrew Winston

Here's my attempt to capture the most important stories that affected the greening of business in 2010 and my predictions for the future.

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How the Cancun Conference Can Succeed With -- or Without -- China

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, India, Council on Foreign Relations, Michael Levi, Canada, Eu, Coca-Cola, cop16, South Africa, Beijing, Hfcs, Greenhouse Gases, Kyoto Protocol, Washington Post, Un, Redd, Cancun Climate Summit, Copenhagen 2009, Carbon Emissions, Brazil, Mexico, Cancun, Jonathan Pershing, Felipe Calderon, Copenhagen Accord, cop15, Unilever, International Energy Agency, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Unfccc, Copenhagen Climate Conference, China, Pepsico, Wikileaks, Green News
Corbin Hiar

Yesterday some 15,000 delegates, business leaders, activists and journalists gathered in Cancun to kick off the UN Framework Convention on Climate Cha...

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Say It Ain't So: Ben & Jerry's To Stop Calling Its Ice Cream 'All Natural'

Wallet Pop | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Unilever, Ben & Jerry's All Natural, All Natural, Vermont, Ben Jerrys, Ben & Jerry's, Cspi, Food Labels, Food Labeling, Food News

Ben & Jerry's, once a small Vermont dairy operation known for its all natural ingredients, is stripping the claim "all natural" from its packaging und...

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Bountiful Ocean Requires Conservation Plan

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mcdonalds, Unilever, Wal-Mart, Dr. Reese Halter, No Take Zones, Conservation Biology, Conservation, Marine Stewardship Council, Oceans, Harvesting, Green News
Dr. Reese Halter

Each of us can make a huge difference with our buying habits. As voters and consumers, we can exercise a unanimous voice for the conservation of all wild fish stocks and life within the ocean.

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Hacked Calls, Affordable Price

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uae, Blackberry, Nyc, Ban, 3G Network, Shelly Palmer, Subway, Unilever, Gps, Media, Hacked Calls, Wifi, Rim, High Tech Commute, Defcon Hacker, Technology News
Shelly Palmer

At a cost of only $1,500 anyone can own an eavesdropping cell phone antenna. If you're worried, upgrade to a 3G phone -- the security is much better and way harder to hack.



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What's Up With the Rainforest: Brazil Suspends Amazon Dam Project Targeted by Avatar Director

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unilever, Malaysia, Eu, Palm Oil, Earth Day, Rainforest Alliance, Brazil, James Boyce, James Cameron, Green News
James Boyce

The recent decision to suspend the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam suggests that Hollywood holds a great deal of environmental leadership power.

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What's Up With the Rainforest: School of Architecture Builds Sustainable Health Care

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Living, Environmental Policy, Rainforest Newsladder, Unilever, Green News, Rainforest Alliance, Palm Oil, James Boyce, Healthcare, Green News
James Boyce

What actions must we -- as individuals, families, corporate CEOs, government officials, activists -- take to secure a path that guides us to a cleaner, safer, and healthier world?

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Slim Fast Recall: Cans Recalled Nationwide Due To Bacteria

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Weight Loss Shake, Diet Shakes, Unilever, Slim Fast, Slim Fast Drinks, Recall, Bacteria, Cans, Slim-Fast, Weight Loss, Nausea, Diet Drinks, Diarrhea, Weight Loss Drinks, Vomiting, Slimfast, Business News

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — Unilever PLC's U.S. subsidiary says it has recalled all canned Slim Fast drinks because of the possibility of bacterial...

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Kraft, Cadbury Deal: Cadbury Rejects Kraft Bid

AP | JANE WARDELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unilever, Kraft, Cadbury, Kraft Bid, Warren Buffett, Oreos, Dairy Milk, Business News

LONDON — British candy maker Cadbury PLC rejected a renewed 9.8 billion pound ($16.4 billion) hostile bid from Kraft Foods Inc. on Monday after ...

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