Turn Your Company Profits Around - Running Your Business The Ethical Way

With publicity about businesses’ alleged exploitation of workers or undesirable practices becoming more widespread than ever, it is increasingly useful for a firm to make efforts to be seen as ‘ethical’ - and to bear out its promises with positive actions.

The Body Shop - An Ethical Business ModelConsumers are increasingly savvy about environmental issues, as well as those involving the exploitation of people who produce firms’ products. Questions will inevitably be asked about how a product is produced, what from, where it came from and what the economic situations are of the people who made it. Therefore many firms, as well as ensuring that their own activities are up to the mark, are actively looking to change the way things are in the wider world. …continue reading the story
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Anita Roddick - Triumph Through Hard Work

Anita Roddick - The Body ShopBlazing a trail for female entrepreneurs everywhere, Dame Anita Roddick proves a shining example of someone who has built up a small local enterprise into a major, sustainable high street brand through pure hard work and innovation.

A former UN employee, she initially set up the Body Shop in a bid to provide herself and her children with sufficient funds when her husband was away in the US - and from a small store in Littlehampton selling just 15 product lines she has now created a world-recognised company with over 300 products on its shelves and, by 2004, 1,980 stores in 41 countries. …continue reading the story
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